11:18 PM ET ESPN News Services Despite a goal to open the scoring, Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov, the defending league MVP, spent most of the third period and then overtime on the bench of the Lightning’s 4-3 win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday. Kucherov, in the lineup after leaving Saturday’s 5-2 loss
10:04 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals searched all over the world, looking for the right kind of left-handed pitcher. They think they’ve found him in Kwang Hyun Kim. The NL Central champions announced Tuesday they had signed the 31-year-old South Korean to a two-year contract, and formally introduced their
9:33 PM ET Hayden Fry, the Hall of Fame college football coach who won 143 games at Iowa, died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with cancer, the school announced. He was 90. “We are proud to know that our father’s life had a positive influence on so many people, the players, the coaches, and the
9:06 PM ET Lineal junior featherweight world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux, who planned to move down to the bantamweight division to fight for a title, will have to wait. He was due to fight as a bantamweight for the first time in his career against former junior bantamweight world titlist Liborio Solis with a vacant secondary
8:07 PM ET Just hours after Kamaru Usman‘s welterweight title defense Saturday night, Conor McGregor sent out a tweet. It read: “145. 155. 170.” McGregor has already held UFC titles at featherweight and lightweight — or 145 pounds and 155 pounds. The 170 represents the pound limit for welterweight. It sure seemed like McGregor was
7:00 AM ET Last week we looked at some players who were prime regression candidates, for both good and bad reasons. It’s an especially useful mental exercise to go through at this point of the season, because we’re at a crossroads point of sorts in the calendar. We now have enough of a sample to
6:58 PM ET The Florida Panthers acquired Ryan Haggerty from the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday in exchange for Kevin Roy in a swap of forwards. Haggerty, 26, is expected to report to Florida’s AHL affiliate in Springfield, Massachusetts. He had three goals and six points for Pittsburgh’s AHL affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. Roy, also 26,
7:07 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Corey Kluber is returning to Texas to pitch for the Rangers. The two-time Cy Young Award winner will leave it to others to say whether his hometown team has its next ace. “I think having a starting pitcher you can rely on every fifth day to give your
6:26 PM ET Two-time Olympic gold-medalist Claressa Shields was at UFC 245 Saturday night campaigning for a fight against Amanda Nunes. Not since James Toney started on his path to taking on Randy Couture almost a decade ago have we seen a boxer at a UFC event so open about their desire to fight an
6:14 PM ET Sacramento Kings guard De’Aaron Fox, who missed 17 games with a sprained left ankle, will play Tuesday night against the Charlotte Hornets, the team announced. Kings coach Luke Walton said he will bring Fox off the bench, noting that he will have a minutes restriction. Though he has played just nine games,