7:12 AM ET USC will name Cincinnati’s Mike Bohn its new athletic director at a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, sources confirmed to ESPN. On Wednesday night, the university announced a news conference to name a new athletic director but did not identify the candidate. The Trojans zeroed in on Bohn last week,
3:36 AM ET German Touring Cars (DTM) boss and former Formula One driver Gerhard Berger has unveiled a proposed electric series with high-performance cars racing at Formula One speeds and battery changes carried out by robots. If the concept, which was unveiled on Thursday, catches on with manufacturers, Berger said the series could run alongside
5:15 AM ET World No. 2 Karolina Pliskova has announced she will no longer be working with coach Conchita Martinez. Martinez, herself a former World No. 2 and Wimbledon champion, joined Pliskova’s coaching staff in 2018. The Czech Republic’s Pliskova, who lost her semifinal at the WTA Finals to World No. 1 and eventual winner
3:04 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Eight games into the season, Doc Rivers is done with the newly implemented coach’s challenge rule. A frustrated Rivers vented about the rule after he lost a challenge in the fourth quarter of the LA Clippers‘ 129-124 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks at Staples Center on Wednesday night. The
1:11 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” In his public statements about the evolution of the free-agent market, Tony Clark, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, has taken pains not to use the word “collusion.”
12:46 AM ET Associated Press EDMONTON, Alberta — The St. Louis Blues acquired forward Jacob De La Rose from the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday night in exchange for forward Robby Fabbri. The 24-year-old De La Rose had a goal and three assists in 16 games for the Red Wings this season. The Swede has
5:16 AM GMT Varun Shetty Former Karnataka Ranji players CM Gautam and Abrar Kazi have been arrested on charges of spot fixing in the Karnataka Premier League (KPL) final earlier this year. Gautam, captain of Bellary Tuskers, and Kazi who plays for the same team, allegedly accepted INR 20 lakh for “slow batting” in the
12:05 AM ET Forward Alexander Steen left the St. Louis Blues‘ 5-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday because of an apparent lower-body injury. Steen had to be helped off the ice after an awkward collision with Alex Chiasson late in the second period. The Blues said Steen will be reevaluated Thursday but had
7:00 AM ET Let’s turn back the clock a year, when we wrote this same article and included this gem: Guy most likely to put a team over the top: Patrick Corbin. … There might be concern about the long-term health of a guy who throws sliders 40 percent of the time, but Corbin has
7:00 AM ET Let’s turn back the clock a year when we wrote this same article and included this gem: Guy most likely to put a team over the top: Patrick Corbin. … There might be concern about the long-term health of a guy who throws sliders 40 percent of the time, but Corbin has