Month: November 2022

5:59 PM ET Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk has been suspended for two games by the NHL Department of Player Safety for poking Los Angeles Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick in the face with his stick on Saturday night. Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement and, based on his average annual salary, Tkachuk will
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6:37 PM ET South Florida fired football coach Jeff Scott on Sunday, the school announced. The Bulls (1-8, 0-5 American) are coming off a 54-28 loss at Temple on Saturday, their seventh straight defeat. “When Jeff came to Tampa in December of 2019, we had high expectations for where he could take our football program,”
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6:21 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Russell Henley finally made a bogey, and that’s about all that went wrong for him Sunday as he closed with a 1-under 70 for a four-shot victory in the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba. Henley, staked to a six-shot lead going into the final
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5:53 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Bernhard Langer broke his own record as the oldest winner on the PGA Tour Champions with a 6-under 66 for a six-shot victory Sunday in the TimberTech Championship, leaving the 65-year-old German one win away from matching the career record. Langer started the final round with
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4:48 PM ET Star closer Edwin Diaz and the New York Mets are in agreement on a five-year, $102 million contract, pending a physical, sources familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Sunday. There’s an opt-out and a full no-trade clause plus a sixth-year option in the contract, sources said. The Diaz deal
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1:24 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Flightline has been retired and will stand at stud after completing a dominant, unbeaten career capped by Saturday’s runaway victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland. The son of Tapit will begin his breeding career next year at the farm in Versailles, Kentucky, Lane’s End Farms
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4:40 AM ET The Green Bay Packers were unable to pull off any deals before last Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline, but it wasn’t for a lack of effort. The Packers made aggressive attempts to acquire Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Chase Claypool and Las Vegas Raiders tight end Darren Waller, league sources told ESPN. Green Bay offered
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11:32 AM ET The Toronto Raptors will be without leading scorer Pascal Siakam for at least the next two weeks. The Raptors announced Sunday morning that their star forward has been diagnosed with a right adductor strain and will be reevaluated in two weeks. He was injured in Friday night’s 111-110 loss to the Dallas
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12:30 PM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Danish teenager Holger Rune fought back from a set down to beat favorite Novak Djokovic 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 and win his first Masters title on Sunday. Rune, who beat four other top-10 players in Hubert Hurkacz, Andrey Rublev, Carlos Alcaraz and Felix Auger-Aliassime en route to the
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1:08 AM ET Georgia entered Saturday’s showdown with Tennessee as the No. 3 team in the country, which says something about how these evaluations are made. It’s true, of course, that the Bulldogs looked listless at times against miserable competition like Kent State and Missouri. And it’s true, too, that after a dominant Week 1
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4:52 AM ET Associated Press SHIGA, Japan — Gemma Dryburgh of Scotland won her first LPGA Tour title with a final-round 7-under 65 on Sunday to take the Toto Classic by four shots ahead of Japan’s Kana Nagai. Nagai also closed with a 65. Linn Grant was a third, five shots off the pace after
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8:49 PM GMT AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Following two incredible semifinals on Saturday night, tickets for an explosive grand final have been snapped up with New Zealand Rugby looking to release every available seat to ensure a completely packed-out Eden Park next weekend. With over 8,000 tickets sold within minutes of the Black Ferns nail-biting
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