6:23 PM ET ESPN News Services The Vancouver Canucks, whose season is on pause amid a coronavirus outbreak on the team, have signed forward Tanner Pearson to a three-year, $9.75 million contract extension, general manager Jim Benning announced Thursday. The Canucks also announced that No. 1 goaltender Thatcher Demko will make $25 million on his
6:39 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former US Open champion Sloane Stephens reached the quarterfinals of the Volvo Car Open on Thursday, her first time advancing this far in a tournament since the French Open in 2019. Stephens, the American who won her Grand Slam title in 2017, ousted Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3,
4:31 PM ET Associated Press Italian teenager Lorenzo Musetti saved four match points before beating top-seeded Daniel Evans 6-1, 1-6, 7-6 (8) Thursday to reach the Sardegna Open quarterfinals. The 19-year-old Musetti closed the match out with a drop-shot winner then slammed his racket to the clay in celebration. Musetti, who won the boys title
Glamorgan 312 for 8 (van der Gugten 80*, Douthwaite 57, Carlson 55) vs Yorkshire There has surely never been a bleaker start to the Championship season than this, well, not since last year anyway. Cricket took place at Headingley, but it was cold comfort, staged stoically in front of empty stands in the hope of
6:18 PM ET UFC middleweight Darren Till laid into Marvin Vettori in a social media post Wednesday, shortly after Vettori publicly questioned the validity of an injury Till disclosed last week. Till (18-3-1) was scheduled to face Vettori (16-3-1) in the main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas, but he withdrew
1:41 PM ET The UFC is finalizing a welterweight matchup between Neil Magny and Geoff Neal for a UFC Fight Night in May, multiple sources told ESPN. The 170-pound bout will take place May 8 on a card headlined by bantamweights TJ Dillashaw and Cory Sandhagen. The UFC has not officially announced a venue for
4:38 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — The postponed season-opening series between the Nationals and Mets has been rescheduled, with two of the games moved to June and the other to September. A coronavirus outbreak on the Nationals prompted Major League Baseball to scrap the games originally slated to be played in Washington on Thursday,
2:52 PM BST England captain Sarah Hunter is set earn her 124th cap when the Red Roses face Italy in the women’s Six Nations on Saturday, the game will mark her first international match in 13 months. Hunter comes back in at No. 8 following a lengthy injury layoff that also saw her miss last
11:01 AM ET For 20 seasons, Tom Brady knew only one way — the “Patriot Way” — but it took just one additional season to realize that it wasn’t the only way to achieve success. “When you’re in one place for 20 years, you think that’s the only way,” Brady told ABC’s “Good Morning America”
10:32 AM ET Center Khem Birch is finalizing a contract buyout with the Orlando Magic and plans to sign with the Toronto Raptors upon clearing waivers, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Thursday. The 28-year-old Birch, a native of Montreal, is averaging 5.3 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 19.8 minutes per game for