11:41 AM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins‘ qualifying-round loss to the Montreal Canadiens cost assistant coaches Sergei Gonchar, Jacques Martin and Mark Recchi their jobs. The team announced on Wednesday that it would not renew the contracts of all three assistants. The move came less than a week after the fifth-seeded Penguins
Month: August 2020
9:04 AM ET Steve Kim Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Carl Frampton, Michael Conlan, David Benavidez and Otto Wallin return to the ring in key fights this weekend for the first time
9:36 PM IST Danyal Rasool Pakistan fast bowling coach Waqar Younis dismissed suggestions that Pakistan would feel compelled to rest some of their fast bowlers due to the short turnaround between the first and the second Test. He said Pakistan hadn’t played Test cricket for five months, which meant the bowlers still had plenty of
10:49 AM ET The Big South Conference became the latest FCS football league to postpone its fall sports seasons on Wednesday, with the intent of playing in the spring, leaving three of the 13 FCS conferences with plans to play football and other sports this fall. The Ohio Valley Conference, Southern Conference and Southland Conference
11:30 AM ET Dave Wilson Oklahoma defensive lineman Jalen Redmond was arrested early Wednesday morning and charged with driving under the influence. According to Cleveland County jail records, Redmond was booked at 3:34 a.m. Despite starting just four games last season, Redmond led the Sooners in sacks (6.5) and finished third on the team with
10:32 AM ET New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, in his current post as U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, “sometimes made inappropriate or insensitive comments” that could be deemed a violation of Equal Opportunity Laws, according to a U.S. State Department report obtained by ESPN. The report, released Wednesday morning by the Office of
11:27 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — Eagles coach Doug Pederson has returned to the team’s practice facility, 10 days after telling his players that he had contracted the coronavirus, the team said. Pederson, 52, was asymptomatic. According to NFL protocol, an employee who is asymptomatic must wait 10 days or have two consecutive negative tests over
10:29 AM ET Nico Hulkenberg is keen to return to Formula One next year and has revealed he would consider driving for Alfa Romeo on the right terms. At the last two races at Silverstone, Hulkenberg was drafted in by Racing Point to replace Sergio Perez, who was ruled out of both races by positive
10:00 AM ET Associated Press Roush Fenway Racing announced a 12-race sponsorship deal Wednesday with Guaranteed Rate to fund Ryan Newman‘s car through the remainder of the 2020 NASCAR season. The deal between Roush and the retail mortgage lender is a large one in the current economic climate; teams are piecing together funding in small
9:04 AM ET Associated Press Zach Johnson had quick success after a long road to the PGA Tour. He won as a rookie and reached the Tour Championship in Atlanta, where one of the perks was attending a ceremony to watch Jay Haas accept the Payne Stewart Award. He remembers it being powerful, inspiring and