Month: January 2021

2:15 PM ET Boston Bruins star Brad Marchand knows better than to agitate former teammate Zdeno Chara, even though he’s now an opponent. “No, you don’t want to poke the bear,” Marchand said. Chara faces the Bruins on Saturday for the first time since leaving Boston as a free agent, signing with the Washington Capitals
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2:54 PM ET Next month’s Chris Weidman vs. Uriah Hall fight is being moved. Their scheduled fight at UFC 258 on Feb. 13 has been canceled, sources say, after Weidman tested positive for COVID-19 recently. The current plan is for the fight to be moved to UFC 261 on April 24, according to the sources.
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3:21 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens signed tight end Nick Boyle to a two-year extension, which will create approximately $2 million in cap room this offseason. The Ravens announced the deal Friday afternoon and a source confirmed the extension is worth $13 million. By signing Boyle through the 2023 season, Baltimore
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3:37 PM ET After 11 years in Washington‘s organization, vice president of player personnel Kyle Smith has left to take a similar job with the Atlanta Falcons, becoming the second-highest personnel executive behind new general manager Terry Fontenot. Smith’s departure comes a year after he was promoted to his current position and helped lead a
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2:46 PM ET HOUSTON — A day after it was reported that Deshaun Watson had requested a trade, new Houston Texans head coach David Culley said during his introductory news conference that he took the job knowing Watson was the Texans’ quarterback. “He’s the quarterback of the Houston Texans, and that’s all that I was
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2:02 PM ET PHILADELPHIA – New Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said he “can’t answer” whether quarterback Carson Wentz will be on the team in 2021, as he is in the process of “evaluating everything.” “What we need to do is evaluate the entire roster,” Sirianni said at his introductory press conference Friday. “We have
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1:14 PM ET Belgium’s Thomas Detry, eyeing a maiden European Tour title, surged to the top of the leaderboard at the halfway stage of the Dubai Desert Classic on Friday. Detry, who started three shots behind overnight leader Richard Sterne, carded five birdies to match his first-round score of five-under-par 67 in a second successive
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