5:57 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — As teams continued to court J.J. Watt during his 16-day stint as a free agent, the three-time All-Pro pass rusher said all signs kept pointing him to the Arizona Cardinals, with whom he signed a two-year deal on Tuesday. He picked the Cardinals on Monday from a group of
Month: March 2021
3:33 PM ET Associated Press Nate McMillan reluctantly agreed to serve as the Atlanta Hawks‘ interim coach and only accepted the position after conferring with Lloyd Pierce following Pierce’s firing on Monday. Even then, McMillan didn’t rest easy. He immediately felt the burden of his increased responsibility. “The sleepless nights have already started,” McMillan said
7:44 PM ET Associated Press CLEARWATER, Fla. — After playing in his first game with the Philadelphia Phillies since his arrest on domestic violence charges two years ago, Odubel Herrera apologized and vowed he’s a better person. “I feel sorry because I made a big mistake,” Herrera said Tuesday. “I know some people are not
4:00 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen With the COVID-19 pandemic hitting football clubs’ finances around the world, Europe’s top teams are looking to their youth teams rather than to transfers for ways to freshen up. Already this season we’ve seen teenagers like Borussia Dortmund‘s Giovanni Reyna, Arsenal‘s Bukayo Saka and Manchester United‘s Mason Greenwood make their
7:12 PM GMT This year’s women’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand is set to be pushed back until next year due to the uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, World Rugby said on Tuesday. “World Rugby has made the difficult decision to recommend the postponement of Rugby World Cup 2021, scheduled to be hosted in
2:52 PM ET UFC featherweights Edson Barboza and Shane Burgos have agreed to meet in May, both sides confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. The 145-pound bout will take place at UFC 262 on May 15. The UFC has not announced an official venue for the pay-per-view event. In addition to the bout, Barboza (21-9) has
12:13 PM ET The Cleveland Indians were made aware of complaints about Mickey Callaway’s sexually inappropriate behavior during his tenure as their pitching coach, despite the team’s public statements to the contrary, according to a report by The Athletic. Indians president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti, in response to an earlier report by The Athletic
3:12 PM ET The Houston Texans restructured running back David Johnson‘s contract, which now will be worth up to $6 million in 2021, including $4.25 million fully guaranteed at signing, a source told ESPN. Johnson might have been a salary cap casualty if he had not restructured his contract. Johnson, who signed a three-year, $39
2:04 PM ET Israel Adesanya was always going to be the smaller man moving up a division to fight Jan Blachowicz. But the UFC middleweight champion might be even lighter than many expected. Adesanya told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in an interview that published Tuesday that he is currently walking around at less than 200 pounds
8:05 AM ET AC Milan forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic has reaffirmed his belief that athletes should “stick to sports” as he addressed comments aimed at LA Lakers star LeBron James. Speaking in an interview for UEFA for Discovery+ in Sweden last Thursday, Ibrahimovic had said: “[LeBron] is phenomenal at what he’s doing, but I don’t like
2:01 PM ET Associated Press ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Andrey Rublev advanced to the second round of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament by beating American qualifier Marcos Giron 7-6 (1), 6-3 on Tuesday. Fourth-seeded Rublev won after he was pushed hard by Giron as the first set went with serve, before breaking the American twice
1:49 PM ET Associated Press DOHA, Qatar — In her first match since September, former U.S. Open finalist Madison Keys beat Belinda Bencic 6-4, 6-1 at the Qatar Open on Tuesday. Keys hit 24 winners against 13 for the sixth-seeded Bencic, who was coming off a loss to Iga Swiatek in the final of the
12:15 PM ET The Pac-12 has released its schedule for the 2021 college football season, so it’s time to start breaking down your team’s slate and projecting wins and losses. The conference will be back in full force with a full slate of games and no playing catch up, so what Pac-12 After Dark magic
1:09 PM ET The junior welterweight unification title bout between Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor will take place May 22 at a venue to be determined in Las Vegas. Ramirez, the WBC and WBO champion, and Taylor, the IBF and WBA champion, had initially been planning to fight May 8, but the fight was moved
Young England opener Zak Crawley on Tuesday echoed opposition vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane’s sentiments on the Motera strip which he believes will be “similar” in nature but red ball will make it “slightly easier” for the batsmen. England have been pummelled by India for 317 runs and 10 wickets respectively on successive rank turners and the
12:07 PM ET As the Columbus Blue Jackets spiral down the standings, general manager Jarmo Kekalainen gave coach John Tortorella a vote of confidence Tuesday. “This coaching staff has gotten us out of slumps before. They’ve done a great job in the past five or six years they’ve been here. They are the ones that
7:30 AM ET Since UAB’s return from a self-imposed death penalty, the Conference USA West title has run through Birmingham, Alabama, with Bill Clark’s Blazers winning three titles in a row. Will anything change now that they return most of last year’s contributors? Like the Alamo or Pearl Brewery, hope might live in San Antonio.
6:40 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN THERE ARE TWO versions of the Boston Celtics. One is led by two under-25 All-Stars and carries the expectations of having reached the conference finals in three of the past four seasons. The other has eight players in their first or second year in the NBA, most of whom have
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