Month: April 2021

6:28 PM ET The Columbus Blue Jackets traded captain Nick Foligno to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday. The Blue Jackets received a 2021 first-round pick, as well as a fourth-round choice in the same draft, and will also retain 25% of Foligno’s contract, which expires this summer. Foligno in the final season of a
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7:30 PM ET Another boxing legend is stepping back into the ring. Evander Holyfield will fight Kevin McBride in an exhibition on June 5, Triller Fight Club’s Peter Kahn confirmed to ESPN’s Mark Kriegel on Sunday. Holyfield’s return will be on the undercard of Teofimo Lopez’s unified lightweight title defense against George Kambosos in Miami
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6:23 PM ET Wyoming football recruit Tony Evans Jr. was killed early Sunday in a shooting at a Dallas hotel, police said. Evans, 17, and another person were shot around 1:35 a.m. Sunday at a Hawthorn Suites near Love Field airport. Evans was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The other
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4:31 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Nashville Predators forward Michael McCarron was suspended two games Sunday for an illegal check to the head of Tampa Bay’s Yanni Gourde. McCarron was given a match penalty for an illegal check to the head and thrown out of the game Saturday night. He struck Gourde
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2:09 PM ET Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Devils acquired defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler from the Washington Capitals on Sunday for a 2021 third-round pick. Washington cleared $800,000 in salary-cap space before Monday’s trade deadline by dealing one of the eight defensemen on its active roster. New Jersey gets a 23-year-old left shot
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3:03 PM ET ESPN News Services The Vancouver Canucks will not reopen their practice facilities Sunday as originally planned after another player was placed in the NHL’s COVID protocols, the league said in a statement. The NHL said the Canucks facilities will remain closed until at least Monday, though plans for the team to resume
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