4:07 PM ET In an “open letter to college football” on Monday, American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco pushed back against the Atlantic Coast Conference’s reasons for not wanting to expand the four-team College Football Playoff right now, and issued rebuttals for other key obstacles that have slowed down the approval process for a 12-team
3:36 PM ET JT Brown and Everett Fitzhugh are about to make history. The duo is set to host the NHL’s first-ever all-Black television broadcast, taking place when the Seattle Kraken face the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday. Fitzhugh is usually the Kraken’s radio play-by-play announcer, and will be joining Brown, a regular Kraken analyst, on
3:55 PM ET Jack Eichel will debut for the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday in a home game against the Colorado Avalanche, Vegas general manager Kelly McCrimmon announced Monday. “I always had the date circled for a while, I just had to go through all the protocols,” Eichel said. “I just feel like I’m back
4:09 PM ET Dan Evans made the last 16 of the Qatar Open with a commanding straight-set win over Egor Gerasimov. Evans, Britain’s number one and ranked 28th in the world, claimed a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Gerasimov in his first match since a third-round exit at the Australian Open last month. It was plain
4:27 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Bryson DeChambeau says he isn’t done playing on the PGA Tour. After reports surfaced Monday that DeChambeau told players at the Saudi International earlier this month that he wasn’t playing in any more PGA Tour events, he released a statement on Twitter in which he disputed saying that. “There
3:06 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The Philadelphia 76ers announced Monday that superstar guard James Harden will miss the team’s final two games before the All-Star break — Tuesday at home against the Boston Celtics and Thursday in Milwaukee against the defending champion Bucks — as well as the All-Star Game in Cleveland this weekend as
10:30 AM ET Chelsea finally won the trophy that has eluded them. Getty It was another fun weekend in European soccer as Chelsea became world champions, Bayern Munich capitulated defensively, while Real Madrid and Barcelona struggled to draws. Elsewhere, Manchester City and Liverpool won, as Manchester United and Tottenham dropped more points. We also saw AC
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1:31 PM ET Tyler Toffoli is on his way to Calgary. The Montreal Canadiens traded top-line winger Toffoli to the Flames on Monday in exchange for a 2022 first-round draft choice (which is top-10 protected), a 2024 fifth-round pick, forward Tyler Pitlick and prospect Emil Heineman. There was no salary retained in the trade. Toffoli
2:06 PM ET The Montreal Canadiens traded top-line winger Tyler Toffoli to the Calgary Flames in exchange for a 2022 first-round draft choice (which is lottery-protected), a 2024 fifth-round pick, forward Tyler Pitlick and prospect Emil Heineman, the latter of whom landed in Calgary in the Sam Bennett trade last season. With the trade deadline