Month: December 2018

2:03 PM ET Austin Rivers has agreed to a guaranteed deal for rest of the season with the Houston Rockets, a league source told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Rivers will likely help Houston replace Chris Paul, who will miss at least two weeks with a Grade 2 strain of his left hamstring suffered in Thursday’s loss
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1:30 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Nashville Predators forward Ryan Hartman has been fined $1,000 by the NHL for spearing Boston Bruins forward Chris Wagner. The incident occurred at 19:04 of the second period of the Bruins’ 5-2 victory over Nashville on Saturday night. The league’s department of player safety announced the fine
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11:33 AM ET Buried beneath the anticipation of Manny Machado’s tour of teams and a continued flurry of trades, The Associated Press published news that was jarring and yet completely unsurprising to some agents and executives: For the first time since 2004, the average salary of major league players declined. Not by much, mind you.
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7:11 AM ET Sean Nevin, ESPN UK LONDON — Dillian Whyte insists he has more respect for Dereck Chisora than heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. Whyte (25-1, 18 KOs) called out the onlooking IBF-WBA-WBO champion after knocking out Chisora in the 11th round of their rematch at London’s O2 Arena, with Joshua responding that he will
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9:49 AM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres say Rick Jeanneret is resting and doing well a day after the team’s Hall of Fame broadcaster was taken out of the press box on a stretcher. The team’s update Sunday came about 12 hours after the 76-year-old Jeanneret was transported to the hospital
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8:45 AM ET Two LSU football players involved in a fatal shooting Saturday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were the victims of an attempted robbery who acted in self-defense by shooting the man, Baton Rouge police said Sunday morning. Two LSU football players were questioned by police for several hours about a fatal shooting Saturday in
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