Oct 28, 2020 In an ideal world, Los Angeles Kings director of amateur scouting Mark Yannetti would currently be crisscrossing the globe in search of the next building block for his team’s loaded prospect pool. He’d be digging in on the 2021 NHL draft class and starting to piece together player evaluations. Instead, he’s tracking
Oct 29, 2020 The NHL says that after conducting an outside investigation, allegations that former Florida Panthers GM Dale Tallon made “inappropriate racial, religious, and ethnic comments” while in the NHL bubble were not substantiated. The league received an anonymous tip in August that said Tallon used racially derogatory language while the team was in
11:21 AM BST Exeter’s Jonny Hill will make his England debut against Italy on Saturday after coach Eddie Jones named him as lock partner to Maro Itoje for the game in Rome where the Six Nations title is at stake. Scrum-half Ben Youngs will win his 100th cap, inside captain and flyhalf Owen Farrell. In
1:39 PM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Sabres avoided an arbitration hearing by signing forward Victor Olofsson to a two-year, $6.1 million contract on Thursday. Olofsson was a restricted free agent and coming off a season in which he finished seventh in the Calder Cup vote for rookie of the year honors. He
11:18 AM ET Teams in the Mid-American Conference must play a minimum of three games to be eligible to win the league title, commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said Thursday. The MAC starts its six-game, conference-only football season on Nov. 4, and the championship game is scheduled for Dec. 18 at Ford Field in Detroit. Because of
7:10 PM ET An anticipated welterweight bout is off the UFC’s next pay-per-view main card. Former UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler is out of a scheduled bout with Mike Perry at UFC 255 on Nov. 21 in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. The UFC is seeking a replacement to fight Perry, sources said.
12:31 PM ET For the past two years, the Red Bull drive alongside Max Verstappen has been a poisoned chalice. Had the team got its own way during contract negotiations in 2018, Daniel Ricciardo would still be occupying it, but instead Red Bull has burned through two promising junior drivers in as many years. Pierre
4:00 PM ET Paris Saint-Germain‘s Moise Kean scored twice and Kylian Mbappe grabbed two assists but Neymar exited early with a groin injury as PSG beat Turkish side Istanbul Basaksehir 2-0 away on Wednesday, securing their first win in this season’s Champions League group stage. Along with causing concern for PSG coach Thomas Tuchel, Neymar’s
7:00 AM ET When 15-year-old Morgan Urso was refunded $1,209.87 from her hockey club, Team Illinois, last year, her parents told her the money was hers, and she could do whatever she wanted with it. “I didn’t really care where the money was going,” Urso said. “I just wanted to make sure it went toward
7:51 PM IST Debayan Sen Big picture When the Kings XI Punjab met the Rajasthan Royals the first time this season a little over a month back, we witnessed one of the games of the tournament, but Steven Smith and his men go into Friday’s return fixture in Abu Dhabi knowing nothing less than a