Month: August 2019

7:17 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche agreed to a one-year deal with forward Valeri Nichushkin. The 24-year-old had 10 assists and no goals in 57 games last season with the Dallas Stars. He has 23 goals and 51 assists in 223 career games while in Dallas. Nichushkin was brought in by
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7:00 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Twins slugger Nelson Cruz was reinstated from the injured list Monday after the minimum 10-day stay and will play through a ruptured tendon in his left wrist. Cruz ruptured the tendon Aug. 8, and the Twins feared he would miss significant time. But the team later learned
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7:02 PM ET Associated Press Dale Earnhardt Jr. says his family is “truly blessed” that nobody was seriously injured when his plane crash-landed last week in Tennessee. The retired NASCAR driver, now a television analyst, issued a statement Monday on social media praising the “quick response of my pilots, local law enforcement, emergency personnel and
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6:25 PM ET If Tiger Woods is to be a playing captain at this year’s Presidents Cup in Australia, it will mean a complete buy-in from the eight automatic qualifiers on the team and his assistant captains. Woods said Monday that although the final decision remains his, he won’t participate as a player unless that
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5:14 PM ET Two days after just the second official loss of his career, Daniel Cormier posted on Instagram apologizing to fans, but was non-committal on his fighting future. Stipe Miocic finished Cormier by TKO in the fourth round at UFC 241 on Saturday night in Anaheim, California. With the victory, Miocic re-gained the UFC
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2:32 PM ET Officials from the World Boxing Super Series and the team of junior welterweight world titleholder Regis Prograis are in talks aimed at resolving the lawsuit Prograis filed against tournament owner Comosa AG earlier this month and getting him back into the tournament. “We always wanted to resolve this and right now that
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