12:57 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Celtics star Kemba Walker will miss Friday night’s game against the Atlanta Hawks because of a bout of the flu, Brad Stevens said after the team’s morning shootaround. This will mark the second game Walker, who was listed as questionable Thursday, has missed this season, his first with
12:48 PM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Sabres forward and NHL rookie scoring leader Victor Olofsson will miss between five and six weeks with a lower body injury. The Sabres provided the update Friday, a day after Olofsson was hurt during the third period of Buffalo’s 3-2 overtime win over Edmonton. Upon making
12:38 PM ET The Chicago Bears and Eddie Jackson have agreed to a four-year, $58.4 million contract extension that makes him the highest-paid safety in the NFL, according to his agency, SportsTrust Advisors. The deal, with an average annual value of $14.6 million, includes $33 million in total guarantees. The 26-year-old Jackson posted 60 tackles,
12:24 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Christian McCaffrey‘s versatility and superb statistics helped him to a rare double: The Carolina Panthers running back has made The Associated Press NFL All-Pro Team at two positions. McCaffrey rushed for 1,387 yards and 15 touchdowns, and he caught 116 passes for 1,005 yards and 4 TDs.
12:05 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Houston Hogg, one of four African American football players at Kentucky who helped break the Southeastern Conference color line in the late 1960s, has died. He was 71. The school announced Friday that Hogg died in Owensboro, Kentucky. The former Wildcats running back and defensive back entered
12:04 PM ET Ilya Kovalchuk will play for the Montreal Canadiens for the rest of the season after the 36-year-old Russian winger signed a two-way contract Friday for the league minimum, which will pay him $700,000 in the NHL and $70,000 in the AHL. Kovalchuk returned to the NHL last season after a five-year stint
11:44 AM ET New York Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech is out for the rest of the regular season after suffering an Achilles tendon injury, the team announced Friday. The Islanders said Pelech suffered the injury prior to Thursday’s game against the New Jersey Devils. Pelech did not play in the 2-1 loss, missing his first
8:00 AM GMT England 262 for 9 (Pope 56*) v South Africa There is no precise antonym for the word “ruthless”: like “nonplussed”, “disgruntled” and “underwhelmed”, it is considered by linguistics scholars to be an unpaired adjective due to the lack of a word with a perfectly opposite meaning. But if academics can find a
10:52 AM ET NBA players and referees will wear a commemorative black band on their uniforms for the rest of the season to honor former commissioner David Stern, the league announced Friday. 1 Related Stern, an innovator who transformed the league into a global brand in his three decades as commissioner, died Wednesday at the
3:00 PM ET Will Tua Tagovailoa stay at Alabama or enter the NFL draft? That’s the big question as the star quarterback gets ready to announce his decision at 12 p.m. ET on Monday at a press conference with coach Nick Saban. For a while, it seemed a foregone conclusion he would head to the