5:04 PM ET WASHINGTON, D.C. – Former Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas made his first public appearance since walking away from hockey in 2014, and fought back tears as he described the brain damage he has endured after sustaining a concussion in his final NHL season. “I couldn’t communicate with anybody for a few years,” Thomas
4:48 PM ET The Red Sox have agreed to a one-year deal with free agent infielder Jose Peraza, according to a report Thursday by Robert Murray. Peraza likely will fill a utility spot for a Boston team that isn’t expected to bring back free agent Brock Holt. The 25-year-old Peraza spent the past four seasons
7:00 AM ET SAN DIEGO — The Boston Red Sox came and left the 2019 winter meetings with the foundation of their roster unchanged. Despite the unending discussions among fans for months about the future of outfielder Mookie Betts, the team’s best player remains slotted in to roam right field at Fenway Park. Despite inquiries
3:56 PM ET Former heavyweight world champion Leon Spinks is seriously ill with an undisclosed ailment and is hospitalized in Las Vegas. “Leon is currently hospitalized and in the care of an exceptional team of doctors,” Brenda Glur Spinks, the former fighter’s wife, told ESPN in a statement on Thursday. “We kindly request that privacy
4:12 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Former NBA player Ronald Glen Davis avoided jail time after pleading no contest to a charge that he attacked a man outside a Los Angeles-area nightclub last year, prosecutors said Thursday. Davis, 33, was accused of throwing the man into a wall during an altercation in West
3:22 PM ET Catching up on a few leftover moves from this week’s winter meetings as I fly home … • The Rangers finally tired of waiting for Nomar Mazara, to whom they gave $5 million when they signed him as a 16-year-old in 2011, to convert his promise into production, trading him to the
2:09 PM GMT Bryan Habana believes South Africa’s stunning Rugby World Cup triumph in Japan has created heroes who can inspire an entire generation and help the Blitzboks bid for Olympic rugby sevens gold in Tokyo next year. Habana expects to see tangible evidence of the feel-good-factor generated by the Springboks victory over England in
1:59 PM ET Associated Press BARTOW, Fla. — A professional golfer was one of 124 people arrested in Florida in a prostitution and human-trafficking sting. Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey, 44, was arrested Sunday and charged with first-degree misdemeanor solicitation, news outlets reported. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that Gainey was arrested in an
12:55 PM ET Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jackson Wink MMA Academy, the mixed martial arts gym that counts UFC light heavyweight champion Jon “Bones” Jones, former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm and former UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre among its notable fighters, will offer naming rights. Gym co-owner Greg Jackson told The Associated
4:36 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Aneurin Donald is set to miss the whole of the 2020 season after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Donald, the 22-year-old batsman, joined Hampshire from Glamorgan towards the end of the 2018 domestic season, and impressed in his first full season at the club, hitting a 144-ball 173 against