1:56 PM ET When greatness becomes pallid, when the extraordinary becomes extremely ordinary, it’s almost always a hard story to tell. The reason that Hans Christian Andersen’s fable of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is still famous today, the one where the king loses sight of reality and is conned by weavers into wearing nothing at
6:32 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Flyers center Sean Couturier suffered an undisclosed injury and will be reevaluated during training camp, the team said Monday. He is considered week-to-week. The Flyers did not say when Couturier was injured. Couturier underwent back surgery in February and missed the rest of the season. He signed
2:42 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The Mets are on track to have baseball’s highest payroll for the first time since 1989, among a record-tying six teams set to pay a penalty for spending. The Los Angeles Dodgers, who started the season as the top spender, fell into second due to Trevor Bauer’s
11:40 AM ET Minnesota wide receiver Chris Autman-Bell, a multiyear starter, will miss the remainder of the season after sustaining a lower-leg injury in Saturday’s win against Colorado. Autman-Bell, a sixth-year senior who led the team in receiving in 2021, will undergo surgery, coach P.J. Fleck announced Monday. Autman-Bell suffered the injury on a non-contact
6:18 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — The Boston Celtics have painted Bill Russell‘s No. 6 in the free throw lanes of their parquet floor as part of a season-long tribute planned for the Hall of Famer, who died this summer. “The team has added the number 6 to both lanes to pay homage to
12:22 PM ET Associated Press The NBA Replay Center has a new leader. Kane Fitzgerald, who spent 13 years working as an NBA referee, has been announced as the league’s new vice president of referee operations and replay center principal. He’s replacing another former referee in Jason Phillips, who left the job after three years.
Shelley Nitschke has been named the new head coach of the Australia women’s team for the next four years, after having taken on the role in an interim capacity since Matthew Mott left earlier this year. Nitschke, who had been an assistant coach with Australia since 2018, was in charge of the side as they
3:47 PM ET Associated Press EDMONTON, Alberta — The Edmonton Oilers signed Jake Virtanen to a professional tryout agreement on Monday, two months after the former Vancouver forward was found not guilty of sexual assault. Virtanen was charged in January in connection with an incident in a downtown Vancouver hotel room in September 2017. He
5:06 PM ET ESPN News Services Texas Tech linebacker Bryce Ramirez has a fractured lower left leg and will remain in a Raleigh, North Carolina-area hospital overnight to receive further medical attention, the school announced via Twitter on Sunday. Sports medicine staff members from Texas Tech were with Ramirez at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh,
4:57 AM ET Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Diego Simeone praised Real Madrid‘s counter-attacking style in their 2-1 win over Atletico Madrid in Sunday’s derby, saying it reminded him of his own teams who have been criticised for being too defensive. Rodrygo and Federico Valverde scored in the first half to put Madrid in control at