1:51 PM ET The Chicago Cubs have extended the contract of manager David Ross through the 2024 MLB season, the team announced Friday. The club holds an option on Ross’ contract for the 2025 season. The Cubs did not disclose financial terms of the deal. Ross signed a three-year deal, with an option year, to
Month: March 2022
2:32 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball players who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus won’t be allowed to travel into Canada to face the Blue Jays in Canada and won’t be paid for those games. Canada’s government requires a person must have received a second vaccine dose — or one
8:00 AM ET For nearly two decades, Manu Ginobili has had hundreds of dinners and countless talks with San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, discussing everything from “politics, war, the game, or kids.” Popovich even showed up at Ginobili’s door at 1 in the morning with wine to cheer him up after a tough game.
7:00 AM ET Hours after coming to an agreement with the Major League Baseball Players’ Association on a new collective bargaining agreement, and shortly before the owners ratified the deal with a 30-0 vote, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred spoke with ESPN’ MLB reporter Jesse Rogers about the process — and where baseball goes
7:00 AM ET Welcome to Fast and Furious 10: Free Agent Frenzy. It’s going to be a wild rush to Opening Day as the remaining free agents find a place to play as spring training camps open — and while there was a wave of signings before the lockout began Dec. 10 of Kiley McDaniel’s
8:53 AM ET The Ballon d’Or award will go through a number of reforms ahead of the next ceremony, it was announced on Friday. Paris Saint-Germain forward Lionel Messi received the award for a record-extending seventh time in November while Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas claimed the Ballon d’Or Feminin. – Notebook: The inside stories in football
12:05 PM ET SAKHIR, Bahrain — With one day of preseason testing remaining, F1 returnee Kevin Magnussen set the fastest lap of the week with a time set during an extended period of running for his Haas team. Magnussen, who previously raced for Haas from 2017 to 2020, replaced Russia’s Nikita Mazepin at the team
News The English batter has cited “bubble fatigue and mental well-being” as reasons for withdrawal from the tournament Kolkata Knight Riders have signed up Aaron Finch, Australia’s white-ball captain, as replacement for Alex Hales, who has withdrawn from IPL 2022 citing “bubble fatigue and his mental well-being”, a franchise statement on Friday evening said. A
7:00 AM ET Connor O’Halloran On Sunday, Feb. 27, the day after Leeds United were drubbed 4-0 at home to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, Ashleigh Ross asked her nine-year-old son Riley to sit down in the living room for an important conversation. She had been dreading it all day. Riley has a very
3:17 PM ET Shock waves reverberated across the soccer world over the weekend when images of horrifying violence emerged from a Liga MX match between Queretaro and Atlas. In the second half of Saturday’s game at Queretaro’s Estadio Corregidora, play was stopped when fans began to pour onto the pitch after fights between barras supporters’