8:42 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin left the Washington Capitals‘ preseason finale against Philadelphia on Friday night with what the team called a lower-body injury and is set to be examined further Saturday. Ovechkin bumped into Flyers forward Travis Konecny midway through the first period and then went down to the ice.
Month: October 2021
8:47 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Iga Swiatek needed just 71 minutes to dispatch Petra Martic 6-1, 6-3 on Friday in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open. The last time the tournament was played, in 2019, Swiatek lost in qualifying. Now, she’s the No. 2 seed and the 2020 French
Play 02:10 Gambhir: Kishan and Suryakumar have shown why we shouldn’t doubt them Hardik Pandya didn’t bowl a single ball in the five games he played during the UAE leg of IPL 2021, and that could be a concern for India heading into the T20 World Cup. While Rohit Sharma, Hardik’s captain at Mumbai Indians,
9:34 PM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Johnny Cueto is not on the San Francisco Giants‘ roster for the NL Division Series as manager Gabe Kapler went with his established bullpen after the right-hander missed time through the season with elbow troubles. San Francisco first baseman Brandon Belt is sidelined by a broken left
6:50 PM ET The Boston Red Sox have replaced injured right-hander Garrett Richards with reliever Matt Barnes on their AL Division Series roster, the team announced. Major League Baseball approved the substitution Friday, shortly before Boston was set to face the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 2. Richards, who was diagnosed with a left hamstring
8:21 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — – MLB Network broadcaster Jim Kaat apologized during Friday’s AL Division Series game between the Astros and White Sox after saying teams should try to “get a 40-acre field full of” players who look like Chicago infielder Yoan Moncada. Kaat, a former All-Star pitcher and longtime commentator for
10:15 PM ET MILWAUKEE — Rowdy Tellez said he blacked out at the instant of the biggest moment of his career, but not so long that he couldn’t appreciate what he had done. Tellez, the first baseman the Milwaukee Brewers acquired during the season, unloaded on a seventh-inning fastball from Charlie Morton for a two-run
10:14 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Sam Burns won the Sanderson Farms Championship last week and is trying to put it behind him. He’s playing as though it never ended. Burns made a pair of 6-foot par putts on the only two greens he missed in regulation and ran off eight birdies in
4:38 PM ET WBA women’s bantamweight title holder Shannon Courtenay lost her belt on Friday by missing weight ahead of her bout against Jamie Mitchell. Courtenay weighed in at 120.5 pounds, 2.5 pounds over the bantamweight limit for the fight before her first defense of the title on the undercard of the Liam Smith- Anthony
7:47 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder both tipped the scales at the heaviest of their careers on Friday, one day before they’ll meet in a heavyweight championship trilogy fight (9 p.m. ET, ESPN+ PPV). Fury weighed 277 pounds, four more pounds than he weighed in his February 2020