8:32 PM ET WASHINGTON — Nothing has come easy for the 2019 Washington Nationals. That includes simple tasks like … winning a series. On Thursday, the Nationals eked out a 7-6 victory over the visiting New York Mets, giving them their first series win in a month. Since taking two of three from the as-expected
admin
12:31 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN RALEIGH, N.C. — The Boston Bruins expect captain Zdeno Chara to be ready for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final after he missed the deciding Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thursday with an undisclosed injury. The Bruins eliminated the Carolina Hurricanes with a 4-0 win and
10:51 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN RALEIGH, N.C. — Boston Bruins captain Zdeno Chara did not play in Thursday night’s series-clinching 4-0 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals. Chara, a 42-year-old defenseman, has an undisclosed injury. John Moore replaced him in the lineup. After the final buzzer, Chara was
7:15 PM ET Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder’s tough talk this week about possibly killing mandatory challenger Dominic Breazeale in the ring drew a rebuke from the WBC on Thursday, the same day Wilder continued the same line of discussion at their final news conference. Wilder will make his ninth title defense against Breazeale on
8:19 PM ET Bob Stoops has hired Hal Mumme, architect of the Air Raid offense, to be his first offensive coordinator of the Dallas XFL team. Mumme’s pass-happy offense, which he developed at a high school in Copperas Cove, Texas, has spread across football, most famously practiced by Mike Leach at Washington State and Lincoln
7:52 PM ET Associated Press BALTIMORE — Long shot Market King has been cleared by officials to race in the Preakness on Saturday. Market King had been on the veterinarian’s list in Kentucky after being scratched before the Pat Day Mile on the Kentucky Derby undercard on May 4. He was entered in the Preakness
8:11 PM ET FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — On the fourth hole of his opening round of the PGA Championship at Bethpage Black on Thursday, John Daly drove his cart down the right side of the fairway and stopped unexpectedly. Daly, the 1991 PGA Championship winner, reached into his right pocket and pulled out a cigarette —
6:17 PM ET WASHINGTON — Nationals starter Anibal Sanchez is likely headed to the injured list after leaving Thursday’s game in the second inning with a hamstring injury, manager Davey Martinez said. With one out, Sanchez walked Brandon Nimmo. Immediately after the pitch, the team’s medical staff visited Sanchez on the mound. Following a brief
6:25 PM ET ESPN News Services HONOLULU — A Hawaii mixed martial arts fighter who pleaded no contest to assaulting his wife, UFC fighter Rachael Ostovich, has been sentenced to four years of probation. Honolulu police arrested Arnold Berdon in November on charges of attempted murder after he was accused of fracturing his wife’s eye
5:48 PM ET The Blues could be without defenseman Vince Dunn for Game 4 of their Western Conference finals series against the Sharks on Friday. The team says the defenseman is day-to-day with an upper-body injury after he left in the first period of Wednesday’s Game 3 when he was hit in the face by