Month: February 2019

7:00 PM ET Dallas Stars forward Mats Zuccarello will have surgery Tuesday to repair the arm he broke while blocking a shot in his Stars debut Sunday. “It’s a surgery to put a plate in place. It just helps it to heal faster. It’s nothing major,” general manager Jim Nill told the team’s website. “It
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5:55 PM ET UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker, who was scheduled to face Kelvin Gastelum two weeks ago but was pulled from the title defense on fight day and rushed to a hospital in Melbourne, Australia, said Monday that upon being examined he was told, “You need emergency surgery or you’re gonna die.” Whittaker, 28,
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5:27 PM ET Featherweights Bryan De Gracia and Eduardo Ramirez will meet in world title elimination bout announced Monday that is a late addition to Saturday’s Brian Castano-Erislandy Lara card at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. De Gracia-Ramirez will open the Showtime-televised tripleheader (9 p.m. ET). The fight was added to the card when
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2:21 PM ET Roger Federer began his latest quest for a 100th ATP title with a battling 6-4 3-6 6-1 win over Philipp Kohlschreiber in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Monday. Competing for the first time since his fourth round defeat by Stefanos Tsitsipas at last month’s Australian Open,
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2:14 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN The New York Rangers have traded defenseman Adam McQuaid to the Columbus Blue Jackets for a fourth-round pick and a seventh-round pick in the 2019 draft, according to multiple reports. Losses Additions Kevin Hayes Brendan Lemieux Mats Zuccarello 2019 1st-Round Pick Adam McQuaid 2019 4th-Round Pick 2019 7th-Round Pick 2019
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2:10 PM ET Former Web.com golfer Johnny DelPrete was arrested Friday and charged with soliciting prostitution in the same widespread crackdown on sex trafficking in Florida that has implicated New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Hundreds of arrest warrants have been issued as a result of a six-month investigation, and more are expected. Ten spas
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1:35 PM ET Dillon Danis, a Bellator welterweight and training partner of Conor McGregor, received a seven-month suspension and $7,500 fine from the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Monday for his actions at UFC 229. The suspension, retroactive to October 6, will end on May 6, 2019. Following Khabib Nurmagomedov‘s fourth-round TKO win against McGregor,
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1:51 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a continued effort to get younger and faster defensively, the Carolina Panthers are moving on from nickelback Captain Munnerlyn and safety Mike Adams, the team announced Monday. The release of Munnerlyn, 30, will clear $2 million in cap space and give the Panthers just over $17 million in
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2:06 PM ET Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns says he is “lucky to be alive” after being involved in a car accident that has sidelined him for Minnesota’s last two games. Towns said Monday that he had a 5 percent chance of surviving the accident, which occurred last Thursday. “The accident could have went — I’d
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