Month: March 2022

9:28 PM ET Associated Press PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge and five players from the World Series champion Atlanta Braves are headed toward salary arbitration hearings that will occur during the regular season after they failed to reach contracts and exchanged figures with their teams. Judge can become a free
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10:30 PM ET ESPN News Services PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — In his first start since last summer, New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom had some butterflies during his Grapefruit League debut. But he certainly looked healthy. “I was nervous, to be honest with you,” deGrom said after firing two innings of one-hit ball Tuesday
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7:36 PM ET Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have agreed to rule tweaks that will expand rosters, place an automatic runner on second base during extra innings and allow pitchers to remain in the lineup after they have been replaced on the mound, an industry source confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. The
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8:53 PM ET GLENDALE, Ariz. — It was a Tuesday in late March, a time when spring training is normally winding down, so the crowd at Camelback Ranch was noticeably sparse for Freddie Freeman‘s debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday afternoon. A “Fre-ddie!” chant materialized nonetheless, filling the Dodgers’ spring training complex with
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6:05 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua are going to run it back this summer. Usyk will cross the border from Ukraine to Poland and begin training camp for the heavyweight title rematch this summer, sources told ESPN. The unified champion joined a territorial defense battalion in Kiev last month after Russia
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6:25 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead says that the team “definitely” wants to re-sign wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., one of the biggest names still available in the second week of NFL free agency. But in a video call with reporters on Tuesday, Snead called it a complex situation
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7:45 PM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins on Tuesday reached agreement with offensive tackle Terron Armstead on a five-year deal worth up to $87.5 million, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter, locking up one of the top free agents of the 2022 cycle. The deal includes $43.37 million in guaranteed money, the
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7:46 PM ET The Calgary Flames organization is bringing a $125 million lawsuit against its insurers for “massive losses” suffered because of COVID-19 during the past two hockey seasons. The NHL first halted its operations due to the pandemic on March 12, 2020. Since then, teams in Canadian provinces particularly have been impacted by heavy
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