3:45 PM ET ALAMEDA, Calif. — Raiders center Rodney Hudson has agreed to a three-year, $33.4 million contract extension, with $24.4 million guaranteed, ESPN has confirmed, making him the highest-paid center in the NFL in terms of average annual per year pay at $11.13 million a season. Per ESPN Stats & Information, only two other
3:01 PM ET A scheduled main card fight is off the UFC’s card this weekend in China. Lv Zhenghong suffered a cut this week and is out of his planned featherweight bout with Movsar Evloev at UFC Shenzhen, the UFC announced Friday. No replacement will be found to fight Evloev and the event will go
3:06 PM ET Associated Press CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland — Rory McIlroy picked up 5 shots in his last five holes for a 7-under 63 to move within a shot of the lead after the second round of the European Masters on Friday. McIlroy surged to join Tommy Fleetwood (65) and three others on 10 under, one
3:00 AM ET Toss West Indies opt to bowl v India West Indies handed Test debuts to Rahkeem Cornwall and Jahmar Hamilton as their captain Jason Holder chose to bowl in the second Test in Kingston. Needing a win to share the series with India, West Indies brought in Cornwall for fast bowler Miguel Cummins
2:23 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. is grateful to be back at Darlington Raceway preparing to drive two weeks after he and his family escaped a plane in flames following a crash in Tennessee. Earnhardt, set to drive the Xfinity Series event here Saturday, said he and his wife Amy
1:59 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Roger Federer won in straight sets for the first time in this year’s US Open, downing Daniel Evans 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 to advance to the round of 16, and No. 7 seed Kei Nishikori became the latest men’s seed to fall at Flushing Meadows. Nishikori, a
1:44 PM ET SHANGHAI — During their first night in China, the members of Team USA didn’t want to be around any coaches or other staff members. Gregg Popovich, a famous host of dinners, couldn’t have been happier he was excluded from their plans. From the first day this team got together in Las Vegas
1:21 PM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Lewis Hamilton is convinced Mercedes is in the mix with Ferrari at the Belgian Grand Prix despite his team’s significant disadvantage in engine power. Ferrari has not won a race yet in 2019 but Spa is the first of two races at power-sensitive circuits. The Italian team is expected
12:27 PM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — The Belgian Grand Prix is usually a good time for engine manufacturers to introduce a new upgrade. It is the first of two races, the second being Monza’s Italian Grand Prix, consisting of long straights which rely on outright power and place less emphasis on clamping downforce to a
12:24 PM BST Premiership rugby clubs have failed in their bid to end relegation to the Championship for the upcoming season, league sources have confirmed to ESPN. First reported in the Times, Premiership clubs offered to increase their annual funding of the division below by £500,000 — from £1.7 million per year to £2.2m —