12:52 PM ET Florida Gators football coach Dan Mullen has received a three-year contract extension through the 2026 season that raises his annual salary to $7.6 million a year. The new annual salary will make him the third-highest-paid coach in 2021 in the SEC, behind Alabama coach Nick Saban ($9.1 million) and LSU coach Ed
Month: June 2021
12:21 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Essential Quality was set Tuesday as a 2-1 favorite for the Belmont Stakes, which will be run without a horse from trainer Bob Baffert pending an investigation into Medina Spirit’s failed drug test after winning the Kentucky Derby. Preakness winner Rombauer and Essential Quality headline a field
12:01 PM ET Vegas Golden Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, playing in his 17th NHL season, earned his first nomination for the Vezina Trophy, given to the NHL’s top goaltender. Fleury, Philipp Grubauer of the Colorado Avalanche and Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning were chosen by the league’s general managers as the award’s finalists.
11:19 AM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills converted more than $11.7 million of wide receiver Stefon Diggs‘ base salary into a signing bonus, a source tells ESPN’s Field Yates, saving the team roughly $8 million of salary-cap space. Diggs was slated to make roughly $12.7 million in base salary in 2021;
9:51 AM ET The Aston Martin Formula One team announced on Tuesday a partnership with the Racing Pride movement and said it will work through June to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ diversity in the male-dominated sport. Racing Pride was founded in 2019 to create visibility for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in motorsport
6:00 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The toughest part of Logan Thomas‘ transition from quarterback to tight end was saying yes. He had been highly recruited in high school, finished his career at Virginia Tech as the school’s all-time leading passer and was good enough to get drafted in the third round by the Arizona
6:30 AM ET Adam Brown With most of the major European seasons now complete, the rumour mill has been sent into overdrive as clubs ponder their moves ahead of what will be a busy transfer window. Check out the latest gossip below, and see all official deals here. TOP STORY: Man United, Barca both in
7:00 AM ET Baseball will return to the Olympics this summer in Tokyo for the first time since 2008 as a six-team tournament, with four nations already qualified: Japan, South Korea, Mexico and Israel. The United States is attempting to become one of the other two countries in the Olympic tournament if it can win
2:24 AM ET Donovan Mitchell is confident that his Utah Jazz have learned from their past playoff mistakes and will use last season’s 3-1 meltdown at the hands of the Denver Nuggets as “fuel” to close out the Memphis Grizzlies this time around. After taking a commanding 3-1 series lead for the second year in
8:00 AM ET Aramide Oladipo Caroline Dubois was born with boxing in her blood. She comes from a family with a rich boxing history dating back centuries, but her journey to the top ranks was a fight of its own. At the age of nine she was forced to disguise herself as a boy named