1:31 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — Masahiro Tanaka feels cheated by the Houston Astros. Tanaka’s Yankees lost to the Astros in a seven-game AL Championship Series in 2017. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred found the Astros broke rules against electronic sign stealing in 2017, including during the postseason. “Yeah, I do feel that way,“
Month: February 2020
1:08 PM ET Philip Rivers will enter free agency this year, officially ending his 16-year run with the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers and Rivers jointly announced the veteran quarterback’s decision Monday, with general manager Tom Telesco saying that the timing of the announcement will “allow everyone to put themselves in the best position for
8:00 AM ET It’s not too fair to judge new college football coaches on their first recruiting classes because most are hired with very little time to close out the class. The coaching carousel starts only weeks before the early signing period in December, and coaches can’t be expected to do much in those first
7:00 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Guardians are running late. The digital clock on their locker room wall at MetLife Stadium says it’s time to get on the field, but this opening-day moment deserves extra time. Coach Kevin Gilbride, standing in the middle of the room, gives the pregame pep talk
12:24 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Sean Lee has made a decision on his status for 2020. “I’m playing,” he told ESPN. While a return to the Dallas Cowboys for an 11th season is not out of the question, Lee is set to become a free agent in March. Lee, who will turn 34 in
9:40 AM ET The baseline reaction to the annual NHL trade deadline is that it’s always underwhelming, which is frankly unfair. It’s like going into a movie having seen all the trailers and read all the spoilers and then being disappointed when the action on the screen doesn’t match the movie in your head. The
11:37 AM ET LONDON — Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes Mercedes will always be able to attract the fastest drivers as long as it is producing the best car on the grid. With testing for the new Formula One season about to get underway next week, Wolff is in the process of opening contract
11:33 AM ET Associated Press LeBron James is considering a return to the Olympics. James — a two-time gold medalist and three-time Olympian — is among 44 players announced by USA Basketball on Monday as finalists for the team that will play in the Tokyo Games this summer. James played in 2004, 2008 and 2012,
9:17 AM ET Exactly one week after hoisting the women’s singles trophy at the Australian Open, Sofia Kenin again stood in triumph with cheers cascading over her from an appreciative crowd. This time, Kenin was not alone. On Saturday at a Fed Cup event in Everett, Washington, Kenin celebrated with her doubles partner, Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
11:53 AM ET Will Gary Russell Jr. ever get a major fight? He did face Vasiliy Lomachenko in 2014 for a vacant featherweight world title, but that wasn’t a big fight then. In fact, it was on a Showtime undercard, where Russell took his only professional loss by clear decision. In 2015, Russell won a