Month: March 2020

5:58 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings signed defenseman Alex Biega to a one-year contract extension. The team announced the move Monday. Biega was acquired by the Red Wings in an Oct. 6 trade with Vancouver. He has three points — all assists — in 48 games with Detroit this season.
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5:06 PM ET ESPN News Services COLUMBUS, Ohio — Four assistant football coaches at Ohio State will be paid at least $1 million this year, according to salary figures released by the school Monday. That will mark the first time four assistants on one staff have made seven figures, according to the USA Today database
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4:44 PM ET The Las Vegas Raiders released starting linebacker Tahir Whitehead on Monday. The move clears nearly $6 million in salary cap space in advance of free agency. Whitehead, who turns 30 on April 2, has started all 16 games for the Raiders the past two seasons after signing with the team as a
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Mar 9, 2020 It might be a while before fans see Mark O. Madsen back in the Octagon. The intriguing lightweight prospect wrote Sunday on social media that he broke his jaw in a fight with Austin Hubbard on Saturday night at UFC 248 in Las Vegas. Madsen wrote that it was a “double fracture”
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4:35 PM ET Super middleweight world titlist David Benavidez will have a homecoming fight for his first title defense. Benavidez will square off with Roamer Alexis Angulo on April 18 in the main event of a tripleheader on Showtime (10 p.m. ET) at the Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, Premier Boxing Champions and TGB Promotions
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Mar 5, 2020 When it comes down to player evaluation in college football, the quarterback position is the most difficult to project future production and success. A great deal of it is dictated by circumstance, scheme fit and enrolling early to get adjusted to the speed of the college level with new terminology. Some quarterback
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3:51 PM BST England prop Joe Marler has been cited after he appeared to grab Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones’ around the groin area during his side’s 33-30 Six Nations victory on Saturday. After just 10 minutes of the Twickenham game a melee broke out when Wales had a try disallowed for a George North
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3:15 PM ET The fight between unified junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez and mandatory challenger Viktor Postol was officially rescheduled on Monday. The fight will headline a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on May 9 (ESPN and ESPN Deportes, 10 p.m. ET with preliminary bouts streaming on ESPN+ beginning at 7 p.m. ET)
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4:10 PM BST James Harrington There is some difference between Fantasy Rugby points and on-pitch impressions. The two things are not, necessarily, closely related. And the metrics can be easily questioned but they are the same for everyone and are easy to follow. Scotland were far more than the sum of their individual Fantasy Rugby-scoring
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