7:37 PM ET Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Major League Baseball has been in touch with the Oakland Athletics about their bench coach making a gesture that appeared to be a Nazi salute following a win over the Texas Rangers. No discipline has been announced against coach Ryan Christenson, who has apologized for the gesture.
Month: August 2020
3:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Eric Kay, a former director of communications for the Los Angeles Angels, has been charged by the Drug Enforcement Agency with illegally supplying drugs to pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who died in a hotel room in Texas last year. Skaggs, 27, was found dead on July 1, 2019, after police
8:20 PM ET ESPN News Services TORONTO — The Pittsburgh Penguins entered their qualifying round matchup against Montreal healthy but wary. Optimistic but guarded. While they’d shown plenty of grit during a regular season that featured extended absences by high-profile names on their star-laden roster, in a short series facing a goaltender like Carey Price,
9:05 PM ET In a shared locker room that needed cleaning so the next team could take over soon, there was no celebration for the Brooklyn Nets as they officially secured a playoff berth Friday with a 119-106 win over the Sacramento Kings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. While it was a bit of a
2:06 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN New Orleans Pelicans rookie forward Zion Williamson will not play Friday night against the Washington Wizards, according to the team. The team listed Williamson as out (rest) on its injury report Friday afternoon. Williamson played just under 22 minutes in the Pelicans’ 140-125 loss to the Sacramento Kings on Thursday,
8:52 PM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — With his team off to an 0-4 start in the NBA bubble and his daughter, Kaari Jaidyn, celebrating her first birthday hundreds of miles away, Memphis Grizzlies rookie standout Ja Morant called his parents with an admission Friday morning. “I wasn’t in a good mood at all,”
8:44 PM ET Associated Press SYLVANIA, Ohio — On a course with happy memories, Lydia Ko ran off four straight birdies to start her round Friday and finished with birdies on her last two holes for a 6-under 65 and a one-shot lead going into the weekend at the Marathon Classic. Ko is a two-time
8:54 PM ET Colorado State athletic director Joe Parker suspended all football-related activities indefinitely and asked school president Joyce McConnell to expand a recently announced investigation into the athletic department to include allegations of racism and verbal abuse in the football program. Parker said in a statement Friday that he decided to pause all football
10:59 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Editor’s note: Pete Hamill, legendary newspaperman, journalist and novelist, died Wednesday at the age of 85. In the spring of 1991, as a favor to the then-Metropolitan editor of the New York Post, I got a call from Pete Hamill. I was 28, full of a none-too-subtle ambition, and just
7:49 PM ET The Arizona Coyotes bench screamed into the empty void of Rogers Place, where an NHL postseason without fans is being played. The wait was finally over for the franchise, and a considerable one at that. The Coyotes advanced to the Stanley Cup playoff quarterfinals with a 4-3 overtime victory to eliminate the