5:56 PM ET What was already an active day for the Toronto Maple Leafs was even busier Tuesday when they reacquired defenseman Luke Schenn in a trade with the Vancouver Canucks. Getting Schenn, whom the Maple Leafs drafted with the No. 5 overall pick back in 2008, meant Toronto parted with a 2023 third-round pick
Month: February 2023
6:34 PM ET The Edmonton Oilers made their NHL trade deadline splash on Tuesday by acquiring defenseman Mattias Ekholm from the Nashville Predators, the teams announced. The Oilers are trading defenseman Tyson Barrie, prospect Reid Schaefer, a 2023 first-round pick and a 2024 fourth-round pick for Ekholm, a 32-year-old defenseman who has spent his 12-season
6:45 AM ET NFL Nation reporters We’re quickly approaching the NFL‘s version of Silly Season, as the free agency negotiating period will start March 13 in the lead-up to the start of the league year on March 15. Many players will be getting paid by their current teams, while others will be on the move.
12:33 PM ET The Los Angeles Lakers expect to reassess LeBron James‘ injured right foot in two weeks to see how much progress he has made, but the timeline for his return is expected to extend beyond that checkpoint, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Lakers entered Tuesday night’s games at 29-32 and are 0.5
5:49 PM ET Top seed Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of this week’s ATP 500 event in Acapulco with a strained hamstring, the U.S. Open champion said on Tuesday. The Spanish world number two, who was scheduled to play his opening match later on Tuesday, picked up the injury during his loss to Cameron Norrie
3:37 PM ET Associated Press Kurt Busch still has not yet been cleared by doctors as his career remains prematurely curtailed because of lingering effects from a concussion suffered in a wreck during qualifying last summer at Pocono Raceway. Busch, 44, instead is now a de facto consultant for his old 23XI Racing team and
5:00 AM ET Ian DarkeESPN.com writer Close Darke, who called games for the network during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is ESPN lead soccer voice in the United States. He has covered the Barclays Premier League and the Champions League since 1982, and has one of the world’s most recognizable soccer voices.
2:33 PM ET College football leaders are meeting this week in Indianapolis to consider three rules changes that could shorten game times and reduce the number of plays during games this upcoming season, a continued push to monitor player safety as the sport prepares for a 12-team College Football Playoff beginning in 2024. The rule
Aiden Markram hit a century on his return to Test cricket but the West Indies mounted a strong fightback on the first day of the first Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park on Tuesday. Markram made 115 in a South Africa total of 314 for eight. Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph spearheaded the West Indian
Feb 28, 2023 Marcus Smith has been released from England’s training squad this week to get game time with Harlequins but faces a battle to make the squad to face France in two weeks after George Ford was included in a trimmed 26-man group announced on Tuesday. Smith came on in the last minute of
12:01 PM ET The WBO has ordered its welterweight champion, Terence Crawford, to start negotiations for a mandatory defense against Alexis Rocha, ranked No. 3 by the organization. In a letter sent to both sides Monday, the WBO stated that the parties have 20 days to “reach an agreement” for the bout. If no agreement
10:56 AM ET Sophie Lawson It wasn’t until long after midnight on Aug. 7, 2021, that the Canadian women’s Olympic football team could turn to face the lofted Canadian flag, gold medals hanging around their necks, and begin to sing “O Canada.” From back-to-back semifinals heartbreak in 2012 and 2016, the North American team had
10:26 AM ET Undisputed featherweight champion Amanda Serrano is out of her rematch against undisputed lightweight champ Katie Taylor on May 20, Matchroom Boxing announced Tuesday. “Due to an injury sustained by Amanda Serrano, Matchroom Boxing and Most Valuable Promotions regret to announce that the Taylor-Serrano II bout on May 20 in Dublin will not
UK MPs have urged Formula 1 to set up an independent inquiry into the links between grands prix and human rights violations. The move comes before the first race of the 2023 season in Bahrain on Sunday. Lord Scriven, chair of the parliamentary group concerned with human rights in the Gulf, wants F1 to urge
10:39 AM GMT The creation of a British & Irish Lions women’s team has taken a step forward to being green lit following a two-year evaluation. The feasibility study, commissioned in 2021, has come back with “positive initial findings,” Lions said, regarding the creation of a women’s Lions touring team. The study investigated considerations around
File image of an India-Pakistan cricket match© AFP The 2023 Asia Cup has so far created buzz for all the wrong reasons. The issues started when BCCI secretary Jay Shah, also the chairman of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), said that India would not travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup. Pakistan were the designated
9:43 PM ET ESPN News Services Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball suffered a fracture in his right ankle during Monday night’s win over the Detroit Pistons, the team announced after the game. Ball appeared to turn the ankle early in the third quarter while dribbling the ball behind his back. He immediately went down in
8:00 AM ET If you spent part of the 2022 college football season thinking, “USC can’t possibly keep getting away with this!!” then you should know this: Your hunches were as statistically sound as they were exasperated. For much of last fall, the Trojans’ defense was good at one and only one thing: pouncing on
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