Month: December 2019

2:29 PM ET Right-hander Zack Wheeler and the Philadelphia Phillies are in agreement on a five-year, $118 million contract, sources tell ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Wheeler was considered the prize of the free agency class among starting pitchers for teams who didn’t want to compete in stratospheric bidding for Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strasburg. The Phillies,
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7:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA season reaches its quarter pole this week, and a new world order has begun to establish itself. The Golden State Warriors are no longer juggernauts. The Los Angeles Lakers might be. The Zion Williamson Era … is on hold. But amid all the tumult that has defined the
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2:01 PM ET BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield hasn’t thrown a pass since Sunday’s game at Pittsburgh, when he suffered a contusion to his throwing hand. Mayfield, however, said he plans to practice Thursday and is confident he’ll play Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals. “Mama didn’t raise a wuss,” he said. Mayfield
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1:47 PM ET The Minnesota Wild will be without defenseman Jared Spurgeon for about two weeks, while team captain Mikko Koivu is considered day-to-day after both players were injured during Tuesday’s win over the Florida Panthers. The team said Spurgeon suffered an upper-body injury in the first period of the 4-2 win. Spurgeon, 30, has
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1:31 PM ET When the International Boxing Hall of Fame ballot was released in late September it had swelled to 41 fighters in the modern boxer category because of tweaks made to when a fighter could be eligible for the first time. But as many greats as there were on the ballot, three first-timers stood
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11:49 AM ET San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane was fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for elbowing Capitals defenseman Radko Gudas, the league announced Wednesday. With just over five minutes left in Tuesday night’s game in San Jose, Kane and Gudas were skating to a loose puck. Kane raised his right glove,
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9:55 AM ET Tennis is now in its annual offseason, but don’t blink, lest you miss it. It says something about this 12-month sport that the 2019 season hasn’t even really ended — it’s been quietly humming along in the background with Challenger (ATP) and 175K WTA Tour events, offering both rankings points, prize money
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