Month: March 2020

5:34 PM ET Indiana Pacers guard Malcolm Brogdon is week-to-week because of a left leg injury, the team said on Saturday. The Pacers said that Brogdon has a torn left rectus femoris. Brogdon left Wednesday night’s 119-100 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in the second quarter with the injury and did not return. Brogdon finished
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5:24 PM ET LAS VEGAS — When asked about Jorge Masvidal over the past few months, Kamaru Usman is prone to smiling and making a joke. Or laughing and saying “Who?” Not so much anymore. Usman, the UFC welterweight champion, told ESPN on Saturday that Masvidal is definitely the opponent he’d like next. It’s just
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Mar 7, 2020 Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Chase Elliott won the pole Saturday for the NASCAR Cup Series event at Phoenix Raceway, his first pole of the season and ninth of his career. Elliott made it around the 1-mile oval in 26.065 seconds. It’s the first time the Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet driver has won
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5:32 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Chase Elliott won the pole Saturday for the NASCAR Cup Series event at Phoenix Raceway, his first pole of the season and ninth of his career. Elliott made it around the 1-mile oval in 26.065 seconds. It’s the first time the Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet driver has won
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5:03 PM ET Associated Press PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Baltimore outfielder/first baseman Trey Mancini has left the Orioles to undergo what the team is calling “a non-baseball-related medical procedure.” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde, who made the announcement after a game at Tampa Bay on Saturday, said Mancini “is going to miss some time” but didn’t
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4:08 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Brooks Koepka shot the highest score of his PGA Tour career on Saturday, a 9-over-par 81 at the Bay Hill Club that included just a single birdie. Koepka, who fell from the top spot in the world last month after a period of indifferent play following a knee procedure
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4:10 PM ET ESPN News Services AVONDALE, Ariz. — Seven-time NASCAR Cup winner Jimmie Johnson said he’s going to do an IndyCar team test with McLaren Racing on April 6. Johnson said Saturday he wasn’t sure if the one-day team test in Birmingham, Alabama, would lead to an IndyCar future, but he’s intrigued by the
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3:51 PM ET Associated Press BRADENTON, Fla. — New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez was scratched from batting practice Saturday due to a sore back, although manager Aaron Boone said he doesn’t think the problem is serious. Boone said he thought the soreness stemmed from Sanchez playing back-to-back games for the first time in spring
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2:14 PM ET Top seed Sofia Kenin advanced to the final of the Lyon Open after coming through a thrilling semifinal where she beat Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck 7-6(5), 6-7(2), 7-6(5) on Saturday. Kenin, the Australian Open champion, will play her sixth career final after overcoming the fifth seed in a match that lasted nearly
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1:40 PM ET As it monitors the spread of the coronavirus, the NHL plans on closing locker room access to the media, a source told ESPN. The new policy came on recommendation by the CDC. Sources told ESPN that the NHL could implement the new mandate as soon as Saturday. All media availabilities will be
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