Month: September 2019

11:18 PM ET ESPN News Services STERLING, Conn. — Modified stock car great Michael Stefanik has been killed in a single-engine plane crash. He was 61. State police said the crash happened Sunday afternoon in Sterling, Connecticut, near the Rhode Island state line. They said the single-engine, single-seat Aerolite 103 took off from the Riconn
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10:23 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Martin Truex Jr. raced his way into the second round of NASCAR’s playoffs with a victory Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the opening round of the postseason. The win is Truex’s series-best fifth of the season and again cemented Joe Gibbs Racing as the team
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9:35 PM ET Associated Press SUNNYVALE, Calif. — John Ralston, the former Stanford and Denver Broncos coach, has died. He was 92. San Jose State, where Ralston finished his coaching career and later worked as special assistant to the athletic director, said Sunday that Ralston died Saturday in Sunnyvale. Ralston was the head coach at
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7:00 AM ET Ken Holland knew about Connor McDavid, the hockey player. He watched the most gifted offensive center on the planet shred through his Detroit Red Wings while he was their general manager. But as he sat down for lunch with McDavid in Toronto, three weeks after taking over the Edmonton Oilers as their
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8:31 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — A sullen Kirk Cousins took full responsibility for the costly interception he threw in the fourth quarter of a 21-16 loss to the Green Bay Packers that stunted the Minnesota Vikings‘ chances of taking a late-game lead at Lambeau Field. “There’s no justification,” Cousins said. “It was unacceptable,
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6:28 PM ET Associated Press WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Joaquin Niemann became the first player from Chile to win on the PGA Tour, shooting a 6-under 64 on Sunday for a six-stroke victory in A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. The 20-year-old Niemann entered the final round of the season opener with a two-stroke
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5:20 PM ET Associated Press GRAND BLANC, Mich. — Jerry Kelly played bogey-free Sunday at Warwick Hills and closed with a 4-under 68 for a two-shot victory in the Ally Challenge, his second victory this year on the PGA Tour Champions. Kelly also won two months ago in his native Wisconsin at the American Insurance
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2:54 PM ET Mike Trout has been trying to get back in the lineup, but that plan will be put on hold because the Los Angeles Angels slugger will have surgery on his foot. The team announced that Trout will have a thickening of tissue around the nerves — a Morton’s neuroma — in the
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