6:42 PM ET ESPN News Services BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sabres captain Jack Eichel is doing everything within his power to prevent his team from falling into an all-too-familiar late-season rut. The fifth-year player is enjoying a breakout season with a career-best 31 goals _ seven of them game-winners _ as he displays on-ice consistency. And
Month: February 2020
6:31 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — LeBron James says “every game is going to be emotional” as the Los Angeles Lakers play out the season following the helicopter crash that took the lives of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others on Jan. 26. Including the NBA All-Star Game in Chicago later this
6:33 PM ET Former Stanford starting quarterback KJ Costello is joining Mississippi State as a graduate transfer, he announced Monday on Instagram. Costello, a two-time captain at Stanford who started 25 games over the course of three seasons, has one season of eligibility left. He joins new Mississippi State coach Mike Leach, who oversaw the
5:54 PM ET The Detroit Lions signed former San Francisco 49ers first-round pick Joshua Garnett on Monday, giving the guard another chance at sticking in the NFL. Garnett’s time with San Francisco was riddled with injuries, including a knee issue that required surgery and landed him on injured reserve in 2017, a thumb injury in
5:08 PM ET ESPN News Services Florida Panthers center Aleksander Barkov, who suffered a lower-body injury in the second period Saturday in Montreal that forced an MRI on Sunday, did not play in the Panthers’ dramatic 5-3 win over the Maple Leafs in Toronto on Monday. The Panthers clearly missed Barkov early on, falling down,
5:52 PM ET The Seattle Mariners have signed left-hander Marco Gonzales to a four-year extension, the team announced Monday. The extension, which begins in 2021, contains a club option for 2025. The four-year deal is worth $30 million, according to The Athletic. Gonzales, who turns 28 later this month, was a bright spot for Seattle
4:56 PM ET MIAMI — Ninety-one dogs from a Kansas City animal shelter will soon have new homes courtesy of Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Derrick Nnadi. In response to the Chiefs’ 31-20 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, Nnadi will pay the adoption fees for the dogs who were in
4:49 PM ET UFC light heavyweight contender Anthony Smith said Monday he was ready to have his left index finger amputated in order to keep fighting. Scar tissue that built up after two surgeries prevented him from closing his hand following his win over Alexander Gustafsson on June 1, 2019. “We were going to amputate
6:50 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England 279 for 7 (Mousley 111, Haynes 68, Evison 59) bt Sri Lanka 127 (Rasantha 66, Goldsworthy 5-21) by 152 runs A maiden youth ODI century from Dan Mousley and a five-wicket haul by Lewis Goldsworthy led England to a dominant victory over Sri Lanka in the ICC U-19 World
4:37 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — The Super Bowl put a halt to a four-year decline in viewership, with an estimated 99.9 million people watching the Kansas City Chiefs rally to defeat the San Francisco 49ers in what is annually the most-watched television event of the year. The Nielsen company said viewership