4:28 PM ET The Detroit Lions have agreed to terms with left tackle Taylor Decker on a six-year, $85 million contract extension, with $37.5 million fully guaranteed, his agents announced on Twitter on Tuesday. He was the 16th overall pick in the 2016 draft — the team’s first selection with general manager Bob Quinn. Decker
Month: September 2020
5:17 PM ET The Las Vegas Raiders have placed wide receiver Tyrell Williams on season-ending injured reserve. Williams had been dealing with a torn labrum, and a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that he will have surgery on the shoulder that will sideline him for six months. The receiver, who signed a four-year, $44 million
4:44 PM ET The NFL is finalizing policies for artificial crowd noise as most of its teams prepare to open the season without fans in their stadiums, league executive vice president Troy Vincent said Tuesday. The league has curated an audio track that would be played at every game without fans, Vincent said. The league’s
2:57 PM ET Joe Mixon and the Bengals have agreed to a four-year, $48 million extension that will keep the running back under contract with Cincinnati for five more seasons, according to ESPN sources and multiple reports. The language of the deal was still being finalized Tuesday afternoon, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. NFL
4:20 PM ET ESPN News Services BUFFALO, N.Y. — Former Buffalo Sabres forward Matt Ellis was hired on Tuesday to become the team’s director of player development under new general manager Kevyn Adams. Though it’s a first-time NHL job for the former nine-year player, Ellis spent the past four years working at Sabres-affiliated Academy of
1:22 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Tiz the Law is the 3-5 morning-line favorite for the 146th Kentucky Derby and will attempt to become the first winner from the No. 17 post position drawn for Saturday’s rescheduled marquee race for 3-year-olds. All the race favorites will break from the outside. Second choice Honor
3:46 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — William Byron, fresh off his first career Cup Series victory, now has a contract extension through 2022 at Hendrick Motorsports. The extension was finalized in early August and announced Tuesday, just days after Byron’s win at Daytona International Speedway earned him a berth in NASCAR’s playoffs. “I’m
3:43 PM ET Associated Press EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Los Angeles Kings have signed forward Austin Wagner to a three-year, $3.4 million contract extension. The Kings announced the deal Tuesday. Wagner, 23, has spent most of the past two seasons with the Kings, who drafted the physical wing in the fourth round in 2015.
2:52 PM ET Steve KimESPN Naoya Inoue’s Top Rank debut is set. The unified bantamweight titlist and ESPN’s No. 4 pound-for-pound fighter is scheduled to face Jason Moloney (21-1, 18 KOs) at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas this fall, according to Moloney’s manager, Tony Tolj. “We’re still in talks and finalizing the
2:56 PM ET Associated Press ORCIERES-MERLETTE, France — After just four stages at the Tour de France, the balance of power is already clearer: Primoz Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team are looking like the ones to beat. Roglic, the Spanish Vuelta champion, used the race’s first summit finish Tuesday in the ski resort of Orcieres-Merlette