Month: April 2020

12:00 AM ET No NFL restricted free agents signed offer sheets with other teams before Friday’s deadline, which means players such as New Orleans Saints quarterback Taysom Hill, Cleveland Browns running back Kareem Hunt and San Francisco 49ers running back Matt Breida won’t be switching teams. Breida signed his one-year, $3.259 million tender with the
0 Comments
8:31 PM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Nippon Professional Baseball’s season openers will not take place in May due to the coronavirus pandemic, with no firm date set for the start. Representatives of the 12 teams decided Friday to also scrap interleague play. The removal of 18 interleague games from each team’s calendar would make
0 Comments
7:57 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Columbus Blue Jackets signed All-Star goaltender Joonas Korpisalo to a two-year contract Friday worth a reported $5.6 million. Korpisalo, who turns 26 on April 28, set single-season career records in multiple categories — including games played, wins and goals-against average — after taking over as the
0 Comments
7:55 PM ET Commissioner Adam Silver said the NBA remains committed to resuming the season but that there is still no timetable for a possible return or even a deadline for canceling the 2019-20 suspended season. Following the NBA’s Board of Governors meeting held via video conference Friday, Silver said the league is still not
0 Comments
5:18 PM ET Tony Ferguson will not fight Khabib Nurmagomedov or Justin Gaethje on Saturday night, as was originally planned. But the UFC lightweight star says he still did a full weight cut and stepped on a scale Friday morning. Ferguson made championship weight — 155 pounds — and showed the footage on his Instagram.
0 Comments
6:09 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Scott Dixon, five-time IndyCar champion and relatively new iRacing competitor, received a brief set of instructions from boss Chip Ganassi about the world of virtual racing. “I did get a text from him that said, ‘Just lay low,”’ Dixon said Friday. What started out as a fun
0 Comments
5:24 PM ET Graham HaysESPN.com Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. Gianna Bryant, Alyssa Altobelli and Payton Chester, who were among nine killed in a January helicopter crash that also claimed the life of Kobe Bryant, were named honorary selections in Friday’s WNBA
0 Comments
5:49 PM ET The Chicago Bears are releasing tight end Trey Burton after just two seasons, the team announced Friday. Burton, 28, joined the Bears prior to the 2018 season on a four-year deal that contained $22 million in guarantees. He played only eight games last season before suffering a season-ending calf injury, and he
0 Comments
5:14 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball It’s widely projected that the Los Angeles Chargers will select a quarterback with the No. 6 overall pick in the NFL draft next week. However, Chargers general
0 Comments