Month: October 2019

1:40 PM ET The Pittsburgh Penguins will be without star center Evgeni Malkin “longer term” with a lower body injury, coach Mike Sullivan announced on Monday. The coach said that Malkin’s season is not in jeopardy. The 33-year-old Malkin left the second period of Pittsburgh’s 7-2 win over Columbus on Saturday after taking an awkward
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12:02 PM ET XFL teams will select 71 players apiece next week in the league’s inaugural draft, according to a structure the league announced Monday. The two-day event will take place Oct. 15-16. It will open with the league assigning one quarterback to each of its eight teams, followed by a snake-style draft that commissioner
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11:23 AM ET The Atlanta Braves will start left-hander Dallas Keuchel on short rest Monday afternoon in a potential series-clinching Game 4 against the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLDS. Keuchel last pitched Thursday in Game 1, meaning he will work on just three days’ rest Monday in St. Louis. The former Cy Young Award
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1:31 PM ET NEW YORK — Father Time is, and always will be, undefeated. Yes, many thought that Sergiy Derevyanchenko, despite getting knocked down in the opening round and getting badly cut over his right eye in the second round, deserved the victory in his second shot at a middleweight world title, but it was
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2:56 AM BST Prop Andrea Lovotti and replacement Nicola Quaglio will miss Italy’s final Rugby World Cup Pool B game against New Zealand after both receiving three-match bans for a lifting tackle, a judicial committee said on Sunday. Lovotti was sent off for dropping Duane Vermeulen on his head in the 43rd minute of Friday’s
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9:16 AM ET Barely an hour after Roger Federer suffered that heartbreaking loss to rival Novak Djokovic in July’s epic Wimbledon final, he was asked how he would process and rebound from failing to convert two match points and losing the historic match. “[It will be] similar to getting broken when serving for the match,”
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6:42 AM ET Kyle Lowry and the Toronto Raptors have agreed on a one-year, $31 million contract extension that takes the five-time All-Star guard out of July’s free-agent market, agent Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports told ESPN. The extension guarantees Lowry two years and $64 million on the books — including the $33.3 million left
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