7:27 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Veteran punter Ryan Allen, who was one of the unsung performers in the New England Patriots‘ victory over the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII, has been informed that the club is releasing him, a source confirms. Rookie Jake Bailey of Stanford, whom the Patriots traded up to
7:27 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Jim Hardy, the oldest living USC Trojans and Los Angeles Rams football player and the MVP of the 1945 Rose Bowl, has died. He was 96. The university said Monday he died on Friday of natural causes at his home in the desert city of La Quinta,
7:17 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche agreed to a one-year deal with forward Valeri Nichushkin. The 24-year-old had 10 assists and no goals in 57 games last season with the Dallas Stars. He has 23 goals and 51 assists in 223 career games while in Dallas. Nichushkin was brought in by
7:00 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Twins slugger Nelson Cruz was reinstated from the injured list Monday after the minimum 10-day stay and will play through a ruptured tendon in his left wrist. Cruz ruptured the tendon Aug. 8, and the Twins feared he would miss significant time. But the team later learned
7:02 PM ET Associated Press Dale Earnhardt Jr. says his family is “truly blessed” that nobody was seriously injured when his plane crash-landed last week in Tennessee. The retired NASCAR driver, now a television analyst, issued a statement Monday on social media praising the “quick response of my pilots, local law enforcement, emergency personnel and
6:25 PM ET If Tiger Woods is to be a playing captain at this year’s Presidents Cup in Australia, it will mean a complete buy-in from the eight automatic qualifiers on the team and his assistant captains. Woods said Monday that although the final decision remains his, he won’t participate as a player unless that
5:56 PM ET As Stipe Miocic landed the final crushing blow to Daniel Cormier‘s reign as UFC heavyweight champion on Saturday at UFC 241, former title challenger Francis Ngannou was watching intently. His eyes were fixated on the screen, and his thoughts immediately turned to his next fight. Was he ready for another chance at
5:14 PM ET Two days after just the second official loss of his career, Daniel Cormier posted on Instagram apologizing to fans, but was non-committal on his fighting future. Stipe Miocic finished Cormier by TKO in the fourth round at UFC 241 on Saturday night in Anaheim, California. With the victory, Miocic re-gained the UFC
3:00 AM ET David Hopps at Hove Middlesex 75 (Robinson 8 for 34) and 149 for 4 (Robson 61*) trail Sussex 309 (Wells 62, Carey 56, Beer 77, Roland-Jones 5 for 70) by 85 runs A quorum of former Guardian cricket writers had descended upon Hove by pure happenstance on the second day and after
3:59 PM ET Zion Williamson has been hailed as the next big thing in the NBA, but his colleagues in the incoming rookie class aren’t sold on the idea that the No. 1 overall pick will have a great NBA career. In the league’s annual survey of rookies, asked which member of the 2019 class