8:00 AM ET NHL Insiders The 2020 NHL draft is set to take place Tuesday and Wednesday. While the event is always exciting because we get to see where hundreds of young players will continue their development as hockey players, it’s also usually the setting for massive trades. With the event taking place virtually this
Month: October 2020
7:00 AM ET For his entire 11-year career in the NHL, Anton Khudobin has been a backup goaltender. Then, this summer, he got his chance to shine. With the oft-injured Ben Bishop ruled “unfit to play” for most of the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs, Khudobin took over the No. 1 role for the Dallas Stars.
Mitchell Claydon had admitted to a charge relating to altering the condition of the ball.© Twitter Sussex fast bowler bowler Mitchell Claydon has been handed a nine-match ban after he admitted to a charge relating to altering the condition of the ball. After Claydon admitted to the charge, a Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) Panel, chaired
6:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Quarterback Cam Newton has a large chip on each of his large shoulders this season, the result of an 86-day wait in NFL free agency in which he wondered if he would be playing for anyone in 2020. That led him to the New England Patriots on what he
By Dafydd PritchardBBC Sport Wales Last updated on 1 hour ago1 hour ago.From the section Cycling The 2017 Giro d’Italia was meant to be a landmark moment for Geraint Thomas, leading his team in a Grand Tour for the first time and embarking on what he called “uncharted territory”. Recognised then as a ‘super domestique’
Red Bull’s engine partner Honda is to leave Formula 1 at the end of 2021. The move leaves Red Bull and Alpha Tauri needing to find an engine supplier and the sport with just three engine companies. Honda said the move was a result of the transformation of the car industry away from internal combustion
2:49 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” You’re looking at the wrong thing. It’s understandable. A bat goes flying in the air, end over end, propelled into the night in a fit of passion, and it inevitably draws every
Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen will have reconstructive surgery on his jaw next week, two months after a horrific crash at the Tour of Poland. The 24-year-old moved home for further treatment a week later. “The wounds/scars on my face are healing up well,” he said on Twitter. “I had to recover from my brain contusion
The Giro d’Italia starts in Sicily on Saturday and takes in 21 stages across 3,497km (2,173 miles) before it concludes in Milan on Sunday 25 October. With more than 40,000m of climbing and three individual time trials in the rearranged 103rd edition of the race, where will it be won and lost? BBC Sport looks
7:52 PM ET ESPN News Services OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Athletics ended 14 years of postseason futility, riding Chad Pinder‘s go-ahead, two-run single in the fifth inning and repeated costly walks by Chicago’s relievers to rally past the White Sox 6-4 on Thursday and win the decisive third game of their AL wild-card round
12:05 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Bad roster. No discipline. Questionable coaching. The New York Jets hit the loser’s trifecta in a 37-28 loss to the Denver Broncos on Thursday night at MetLife Stadium, falling to 0-4 for the second straight season and magnifying the biggest question surrounding the team: What becomes of coach
10:58 PM ET On Thursday, Doc Rivers snatched an opportunity to sculpt a young tandem — Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons — whose stardom would tantalize any coach, but who have yet to make good on their talent. Rivers enters a Philadelphia 76ers organization with title aspirations that believes an upgrade on the bench can
5:31 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent LIVERPOOL, England — Eventually, both teams probably got the result their seasons needed. It took 90 goalless minutes and a penalty shootout but Arsenal booked their place in the quarterfinals of the Carabao Cup at Liverpool‘s expense. Joe Willock’s spot kick — the Gunners’ sixth — only just squirmed over
8:02 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com It has been a long road for the tennis world to get to the 2020 French Open, the final major of an unprecedented season, but it is just the latest detour for Eugenie Bouchard. Despite the odds and expectations, the 26-year-old Canadian is in the third round at a major
9:00 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Defending champion Sebastian Munoz found happy memories Thursday at the Sanderson Farms Championship. Munoz nearly holed a wedge on his opening hole as part of his fast start, ran in four straight birdies on the back nine and wound up with an 8-under 64 to share of
7:03 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY, N.J. — Lauren Stephenson holed out from the rough from 137 yards for eagle on the par-4 14th and shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday for a share of the Shoprite LPGA Classic lead with Mi Hyang Lee. Stephenson, the 23-year-old former Clemson and Alabama player in her second
6:05 PM ET Matchroom Sports promoter Eddie Hearn announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. Hearn’s organization is scheduled to host a card this Sunday, but as a result of the test he needed to leave the bubble inside Marshall Arena in Buckinghamshire, England. Sunday’s card remains on and will be headlined by a
9:00 AM ET Hours before the Tampa Bay Lightning popped the 2020 NHL playoff bubble by winning the Stanley Cup, coach Jon Cooper was asked about what he’d miss about the quarantine experience. Cooper looked to his right and gave his eyes a roll. He took a deep sigh through a smile, which was an