6:12 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs added speedy outfielder Billy Hamilton to their active roster Tuesday and optioned slumping slugger Jose Martinez to their alternate training site. Hamilton was claimed off waivers from the New York Mets on Monday. Hamilton, who turns 30 on Wednesday, went 1-for-22 in 17 games with
Month: September 2020
9:30 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres placed first baseman Eric Hosmer on the 10-day injured list Tuesday with a broken left index finger suffered while bunting with two strikes the night before. To take his roster spot, the Padres recalled outfielder Abraham Almonte from the alternate training site. Manager
7:12 PM ET Associated Press Slumping catcher Gary Sanchez returned to the New York Yankees‘ lineup Tuesday night, hours after general manager Brian Cashman spoke to the struggling team in Buffalo, New York. Cashman tried to reinvigorate a roster that has lost four straight games and 14 of 19, a slump that has dropped New
7:57 PM ET Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller suffered an ankle injury on Tuesday, a source told ESPN. There is fear that it’s a season-ending injury, according to sources. Miller was hurt near the end of practice, with what one person called “a freak” injury. The team is evaluating Miller’s MRI. Miller, 31, the former
7:27 PM ET Kyle Busch and Clint Bowyer will be without their crew chiefs for Saturday night’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway. Both crew chiefs will be serving one-race NASCAR suspensions after Busch and Bowyer finished Sunday’s race at Darlington with two lug nuts that were either loose or missing completely. Busch and
5:34 PM ET Arsenal youth player Marcelo Flores trained with Mikel Arteta’s first team for the first time on Tuesday and although the 16-year-old is eligible for Canada and England, the playmaker has said that Mexico is “one of the best countries to play football for.” Flores was taken by surprise by the call-up to
6:36 PM ET England manager Gareth Southgate admits he has been left puzzled by the full facts of Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood‘s quarantine breach and revealed the pair would have been dropped regardless of any safety concerns. Foden, 20, and Greenwood, 18, were sent home after inviting two women to the team hotel in
4:50 PM ET France earned a rollercoaster 4-2 home win over Croatia in an entertaining top-tier Nations League Group 3 match on Tuesday with the outcome a carbon copy of their memorable clash in the 2018 World Cup final. The French made it two wins out of two after their opening 1-0 victory at Sweden
3:32 PM ET CONCACAF announced that the World Cup qualifiers scheduled for the October and November international windows have been postponed due to the continued impact of the coronavirus pandemic, with qualifying now set to begin in March of 2021. The decision to delay the start of qualifying took place following discussions CONCACAF had with
5:24 PM ET Cristiano Ronaldo was never going to break the 100-international-goal barrier with a scruffy tap-in from three yards. If his previous achievements have taught us anything about the Portugal captain, it is that the spectacular is always preferable to the mundane. So it was fitting that he became only the second men’s player