Month: August 2019

4:04 PM ET The Ottawa Senators have signed center Colin White to a six-year, $28.5 million contract, the team announced. On the rebuilding Senators, the 22-year-old White stepped into the top center position and had a solid season with 14 goals and 27 assists. He also quarterbacked the team’s second power-play unit. White will be
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3:03 PM BST World Rugby has announced that gender titles will no longer be used in World Cup tournaments. The Women’s Rugby World Cup 2021 in New Zealand will now be named Rugby World Cup 2021 and this will be the case for the men’s and women’s tournaments in the future. The 2021 World Cup
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2:34 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Minnesota Wild passed on Pittsburgh Penguins assistant GM Bill Guerin to hire Paul Fenton as their general manager last year. Fenton lasted one season. On Wednesday, the team corrected the error, and hired Guerin to succeed him. “Bill has been a winner throughout his hockey career and I am
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12:54 PM ET With the fight finally agreed to on Tuesday night, the paperwork was signed Wednesday morning and the fight between Gennady Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko is official. It took three weeks of mostly acrimonious negotiations and arguments over numerous issues but they will meet for a vacant middleweight world title on Oct. 5
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1:04 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Goran Ivanisevic, Sergi Bruguera, Conchita Martinez and Jonas Bjorkman are the four candidates for the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s class of 2020. The four players announced Wednesday, all former Grand Slam tournament champions, are in their second year of a three-year possible candidacy in the player
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12:38 PM ET ATLANTA — Rory McIlroy is among those who remain a bit skeptical about the PGA Tour’s format for the season-ending Tour Championship that will determine the winner of the FedEx Cup. While saying Wednesday that he understands many of the reasons for the new format, he also said “come back to me
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12:01 PM ET Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield said Wednesday he has reached out to Daniel Jones regarding his recently published comments about the New York Giants rookie quarterback. Mayfield said the two quarterbacks texted and that Jones took the conversation well. As part of an article published Tuesday by GQ, Mayfield said that the
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