4:38 PM ET Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. — UConn and Boston College have agreed to renew their regional rivalry on the football field. The programs announced Wednesday that they will play a home-and-home series in 2022 and 2023. The first game will be played on Oct. 29, 2022, at Rentschler Field in East Hartford. The
4:27 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — New York Jets linebacker Brandon Copeland, coming off his best NFL season, was suspended without pay for violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs, the league announced Wednesday. Copeland is allowed to practice and play in the final two preseason games. After that, he can’t return to the
4:08 PM ET The Pittsburgh Pirates placed a pair of pitchers on the 10-day injured list after both were hurt during Tuesday’s game. Right-handed pitcher Chris Archer is on the IL with right shoulder inflammation, while right-hander Clay Holmes has a left quadriceps issue. Archer started Tuesday’s 4-1 win over the Washington Nationals but left
4:04 PM ET The Ottawa Senators have signed center Colin White to a six-year, $28.5 million contract, the team announced. On the rebuilding Senators, the 22-year-old White stepped into the top center position and had a solid season with 14 goals and 27 assists. He also quarterbacked the team’s second power-play unit. White will be
3:27 PM ET The Atlanta Braves have placed catcher Brian McCann on the 10-day injured list with a right knee sprain, the team announced Wednesday. McCann, 35, left Tuesday’s 5-1 win over the Miami Marlins in the third inning with the injury. He is hitting .264 with 10 home runs and 39 RBIs in 74
3:11 PM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy defended the manner in which his team conducted its offseason kicker search after multiple kickers who attended the rookie minicamp in May on a tryout basis and left without a contract were highly critical of the process. “I understand — we brought in
2:34 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Minnesota Wild passed on Pittsburgh Penguins assistant GM Bill Guerin to hire Paul Fenton as their general manager last year. Fenton lasted one season. On Wednesday, the team corrected the error, and hired Guerin to succeed him. “Bill has been a winner throughout his hockey career and I am
1:18 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball in a memo warned about the “very real risk” of over-the-counter sexual-enhancement pills after at least two players this year were suspended for performance-enhancing drugs and claimed the banned
12:54 PM ET With the fight finally agreed to on Tuesday night, the paperwork was signed Wednesday morning and the fight between Gennady Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko is official. It took three weeks of mostly acrimonious negotiations and arguments over numerous issues but they will meet for a vacant middleweight world title on Oct. 5
1:04 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Goran Ivanisevic, Sergi Bruguera, Conchita Martinez and Jonas Bjorkman are the four candidates for the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s class of 2020. The four players announced Wednesday, all former Grand Slam tournament champions, are in their second year of a three-year possible candidacy in the player