11:53 AM ET Vancouver Canucks forward Micheal Ferland was fined $5,000 by the NHL for spearing Ryan Hartman on the Minnesota Wild bench during Game 1 of their qualification-round series Sunday night. That’s the maximum allowable fine under the collective bargaining agreement. Micheal Ferland has been penalized for spearing against the Wild on Sunday. Getty Images
Month: August 2020
6:00 AM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Entering last year’s training camp, the Tennessee Titans had two seasoned veterans on top of their quarterback depth chart with fifth-year starter Marcus Mariota and newly acquired backup Ryan
11:08 AM ET The Philadelphia Phillies received no new positive results in Sunday’s round of coronavirus testing and will resume their season Monday when they play the Yankees in New York. The team announced the latest test results Monday morning. The Phillies will travel to New York and play two games there against the Yankees
But there’s no need to be all doom and gloom. After all, there were actual Major League Baseball games! And with games come updated Power Rankings. We surveyed our group of reporters, analysts and editors after the first week and a half of the 60-game (we hope) season, with the results below. The biggest gainers
11:37 AM ET Associated Press Tears streamed down Brent Sopel‘s face as he watched himself on screen, summoning the courage to detail the darkest moments of his lifelong struggles with dyslexia. The stinging memories of being taunted by classmates. The empty feelings of worthlessness that drained Sopel even while winning the Stanley Cup as a
9:00 AM ET The NHL returned this weekend to restart its season with a 24-team postseason tournament, featuring both a round-robin series for the top seeds and a best-of-five qualification round for the others. The league adopted an “All Day Hockey” approach, with puck drop of the first game on Saturday at noon ET, and
10:25 AM ET A group including actor and former WWE star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has agreed to purchase the XFL for approximately $15 million, according to a news release issued Monday morning. The XFL declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy April 13 and has been seeking a buyer for the past three months, marketing itself as
11:46 AM ET The Minnesota Vikings and general manager Rick Spielman have agreed to a multiyear extension, the team announced Monday. The contract extension comes after the Vikings and coach Mike Zimmer agreed to a multiyear extension last month. Terms of Spielman’s extension were not disclosed. 1 Related “Rick has been outstanding in his role
11:40 AM ET METAIRIE, La. – The New Orleans Saints rented out four floors of the downtown Loews Hotel to create an optional bubblelike atmosphere for players and staff members who choose to stay there during the next month of training camp. “It’s not a bubble. It’s a sequester,” Saints coach Sean Payton told NBC’s
11:19 AM ET Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The U.S. Navy is investigating an incident in which dogs attacked a “Colin Kaepernick stand-in” during a K-9 demonstration during a 2019 fundraiser at the Navy Seals Museum in Florida. The Navy said in a statement posted on Twitter that officials became aware of the video