4:26 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Cleveland Indians starter Mike Clevinger will pitch Wednesday for the first time since breaking team rules and Major League Baseball coronavirus protocols and being demoted for 10 days. Clevinger will return and pitch the series finale against the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins. The right-hander last pitched on Aug.
2:42 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired Kasperi Kapanen in a multiplayer trade on Tuesday with the Toronto Maple Leafs, reuniting the 24-year-old forward with the general manager who drafted him. The Penguins sent center Evan
3:16 PM ET Webb Simpson, who is ranked third in the FedEx Cup standings, has withdrawn from this week’s BMW Championship. “After playing consecutive weeks, Webb is taking the week off in order to be rested for the TOUR Championship in Atlanta,” a representative for Simpson said Tuesday. The field for this week’s playoff event
Renault have decided to withdraw their appeal against the verdict in Formula 1’s “copying” controversy. Racing Point were docked 15 points and fined 400,000 euros (£360,000) for illegally copying Mercedes brake ducts. Renault appealed because they felt the verdict did not make it clear the rules required originality in car design. But on Tuesday, the
6:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — When New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick was celebrating on the championship stage after Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002, he held his youngest son, Brian, in his arms. Brian was wearing a blue Patriots jersey, a good 15 years away from graduating college. Older brother Steve Belichick was there,
6:30 AM ET Under every socially distanced player seat in the gyms in the NBA bubble is one of the newest pieces of league technology — and it has Kobe Bryant’s fingerprints on it. Last month, the NBA announced a partnership with Hyperice, a recovery technology company based in Orange County, California, that provides all
England paceman James Anderson cemented his place in cricket history by taking his 600th Test wicket as the rain-marred third and final Test against Pakistan at Southampton ended in a draw on Tuesday. Fresh downpours prevented play on the last day until 1515 GMT, meaning England, who were 1-0 up in the series, did not
1:29 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Defending champion Daniil Medvedev returned to the quarterfinals at the Western & Southern Open with a 6-3, 6-3 victory Tuesday over Aljaz Bedene, who accidentally hit a ball that struck a TV cameraman in the stands between second-set points. The cameraman did not appear hurt, but an
Mitchell McClenaghan will turn out for Mumbai Indians in IPL 2020.© AFP Mitchell McClenaghan is making friends with insects and naming them. That’s not as extraordinary as one might think because he, much like the others in the UAE for the 13th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), has been quarantined in his hotel
Aug 24, 2020 Jeff Horn’s suggestion that he’ll “rag doll” Tim Tszyu in their super welterweight battle in Townsville, Australia, has been shrugged off by the younger fighter, who says he’s happy to “bang it out” and win ugly on Wednesday. Former WBO welterweight champion Horn meets unbeaten world-ranked super welterweight Tszyu at Queensland Country
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc says it will be “difficult” to return to Spa-Francorchamps this weekend, a year after his friend Anthoine Hubert died. Frenchman Hubert, 22, was killed in a high-speed crash during a Formula 2 race at last year’s Belgian Grand Prix. Leclerc said: “Spa-Francorchamps has a special place in my heart. “While it is
6:55 AM ET NFL NationESPN After the most unusual of offseasons, we’re a couple of weeks away from kicking off the 2020 NFL season. That means it’s time to see how the league shapes up before games get going. But that’s not all we’re evaluating in this ranking. This is also a good time to
9:05 AM ET Look big picture at Lincoln Riley’s QB résumé, and it’s close to impeccable. In each of his five seasons coaching at Oklahoma — two as a coordinator, three as head coach — his quarterbacks have finished in the top five in Heisman balloting. Of the three different starting QBs Riley has had,
9:19 AM ET NEW YORK — Entering the grounds of the National Tennis Center through the West Gate gave way to a surreal sight at the Western & Southern Open on Saturday, the first day of the unusual tennis doubleheader currently underway in New York. Instead of the familiar, restless horde of fans attracted to
2:37 AM ET Reuters Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Manchester City left-back Oleksandr Zinchenko set aside some time on his wedding day to clarify comments he and his new bride Vlada Sedan made about manager Pep Guardiola in the wake of the club’s Champions League defeat to Lyon. Television reporter Sedan delivered a scathing
Formula 1 is to ban teams from changing engine performance levels over a Grand Prix weekend. The move, which is coming into force for the Italian Grand Prix on 4-6 September, would prevent the use of high-power modes used in qualifying. Governing body the FIA is making the change so the complex modern turbo-hybrid engines
7:00 AM ET The motif heading into the 60-game Major League Baseball season was straight out of a 1950s horror movie or a bad slogan for a 1980s Mariners team: Anything can happen. As we come upon the halfway point of the season, however, as much as we hoped for a crazy, unpredictable two months,
6:45 AM ET Tim MacMahon Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Kevin Pelton Close ESPN Senior Writer Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system We hear you,