10:45 AM ET ESPN News Services The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed right winger Oliver Bjorkstrand to a five-year, $27 million extension, general manager Jarmo Kekalainen announced Wednesday. The deal links Bjorkstrand to the Blue Jackets through the 2025-26 season. He had one season remaining on his current contract. “When they started talking to me,
Month: January 2021
12:02 PM ET ESPN News Services Buffalo Sabres center Zemgus Girgensons is expected to miss the regular season after undergoing surgery for a hamstring injury, the team announced Wednesday. Girgensons suffered the injury during a scrimmage Monday. The Sabres said he is expected to miss about six months, which would keep him out well into
1:12 PM ET British golfers Lee Westwood and Graeme McDowell have backed calls for the resumption of recreational golf in England after courses were temporarily closed. Under the new lockdown restrictions announced by Boris Johnson earlier this week, recreational golf courses have been forced to close. Westwood and McDowell have both promoted an online petition
1:30 PM ET The WBA has ordered a unification fight between lightweight titleholder Devin Haney and interim belt holder Ryan Garcia, but Garcia wants to face Gervonta Davis next. Can that fight happen? Will the division champion, Teofimo Lopez, instead face Haney to really unify all four belts? In his win over Luke Campbell, Garcia
News January 20 last date to submit list of retained players The 2021 IPL auction is likely to be held on February 11. The IPL has also set January 20 as the deadline for the eight franchises to submit the lists of retained and released players. Those were two of the key decisions taken by
12:59 PM ET Arsenal fans are still waiting to see William Saliba play a first-team game, and it might be a while until they do, if it ever happens. What went wrong? David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has faced a barrage of questions during a difficult season to date, but the
1:26 PM ET Illinois is hiring Missouri defensive coordinator Ryan Walters for the same role, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. New Fighting Illini coach Bret Bielema picked Walters, who has been Missouri’s primary defensive coordinator the past three seasons after two years in a co-coordinator role. Walters joined the Missouri staff in 2015 after stints
1:12 PM ET Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith and offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian did their best to keep the focus off their own career-defining moments as they prepare for Monday’s matchup with Ohio State in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Smith on Wednesday chose not to revel in becoming the first wide receiver to
1:14 PM ET Trevor Lawrence departs Clemson as one of its greatest players: A national champion, a record setter, a winner through and through. That he is the best player available for the 2021 NFL draft has never been disputed — not this year, not the year before, and not the year before that, when
12:18 PM ET ESPN News Services NC State quarterback Bailey Hockman says he plans to leave the 24th-ranked Wolfpack as a graduate transfer. “This university and program has done so much for my life as athlete and man,” Hockman said in a statement posted on social media Wednesday to announce his decision. “… I wish