Month: March 2019

10:14 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Figuring out the candidates for NHL most valuable player is fairly easy. You have your dominant scores like Nikita Kucherov. You have your legacy candidates like Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. You have your “where would they be without this guy?” candidates like Nathan MacKinnon. And, of course, your “if
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8:13 PM ET Associated Press HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — Hidden Scroll has been installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite for the Florida Derby on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Hidden Scroll landed the inside post in an 11-horse field for the $1 million race, one of the major preps leading up to the Kentucky Derby. It’ll
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7:36 PM ET Associated Press BRIGHAM CITY, Utah — A former Utah State University football player convicted of sexually assaulting six women was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years to life in prison during a hearing in which the judge called his actions “horrendous” and told his victims he believed them. Torrey Green, 25, was accused
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7:56 PM ET A welterweight rematch between two former champions in Tyron Woodley and Robbie Lawler will headline UFC Fight Night on June 29 in Minneapolis, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Wednesday. Sources confirmed verbal agreements for the bout are in place. The UFC Fight Night event will take place at Target Center
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5:17 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Good but unexceptional veterans must realize teams find them less valuable in the age of analytics, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred maintained ahead of season openers. Players have expressed anger following the second straight slow free-agent market, one that saw record deals for top stars and plummeting prices
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5:28 PM ET Former Texas Longhorns running back Kyle Porter has transferred to Houston Cougars, the school announced on Wednesday. Porter, who played 27 games with the Longhorns, has two years of eligibility remaining and will be eligible this season after he graduates from Texas this summer. The Katy (Texas) High School product was the
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4:18 PM ET Welterweight world titleholder Errol Spence Jr.’s shutout decision over four-division titleholder Mikey Garcia in a meeting of two of boxing’s pound-for-pound best generated more than 360,000 pay-per-view buys, a source with knowledge of the sales told ESPN. Spence, who retained his title for the third time, easily defeated Garcia, a reigning lightweight
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