11:12 AM ET The Buffalo Sabres have signed free-agent center Marcus Johansson to a two-year, $9 million contract, the team announced Saturday. Johansson, 28, has battled injuries in recent seasons. He was traded by the New Jersey Devils to the Bruins at the trade deadline in February and played only 10 regular-season games in Boston
11:08 AM ET ESPN News Services Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Carlos Carrasco says he is being treated for leukemia. Carrasco made the revelation to a TV station while on a visit to the Dominican Republic, where he was visiting a hospital. He remains positive about his prognosis — saying the condition is “under control” —
5:23 AM ET The Crusaders clinched their 10th Super Rugby title with a tight 19-3 victory over the Jaguares in chilly conditions at Rugby League Park in Christchurch on Saturday. It was also their third successive title under Scott Robertson, who became the first coach to guide a Super Rugby team to three consecutive championships.
8:51 AM ET WBC bantamweight champion Nordine Oubaali defends his belt against Arthur Villanueva in the co-main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at the Barys Arena in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, on Saturday at 10 a.m. ET. In the main event, junior middleweight power puncher Zhankosh Turarov faces Mauro Maximiliano Godoy in a 10-round
12:01 PM ET ESPN News Services LONDON — Rafael Nadal drew level with Bjorn Borg with his 51st victory at Wimbledon, beating two-time semifinalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 in the third round on Saturday. Nadal beat Tsonga on Centre Court in a match that wasn’t nearly as taxing as his second-round victory over Nick
7:58 AM ET Formula One is still confident a Miami Grand Prix will happen in the near future, despite complications in finalising a location for the race. F1 and the city of Miami originally came to a 10-year agreement to host a street race around the Biscayne Bay and Bayfront Park area, originally slated to
Beautiful, tricksy football is an identity, a reputation, a status, that South Africa football fans hold dear. But at which point does a that reputation become a myth? “The fans want us to play like Brazil,” one South African journalist told me ahead of Bafana Bafana’s Africa Cup of Nations opener against the Ivory Coast
11:02 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Previous World Cup Central entries: May 24-June 5 | June 6-June 18 | June 19-July 3 July 4 Glenn Maxwell feels he is hitting the ball as well as any stage of his career and is confident a telling score is around the corner after not quite being able to
1:53 PM ET Nigeria stormed back to beat Cameroon 3-2 on Saturday. Getty Nigeria ousted holders and bitter rivals Cameroon from the Africa Cup of Nations as they scored twice in three minutes to come from behind and win a thrilling last-16 match 3-2 on Saturday. Odion Ighalo gave Nigeria a 19th-minute lead but Cameroon hit
5:31 PM ET Sarfaraz Ahmed‘s comments from the eve of the match, about putting up “600, 500 or 400”, had become social media fodder. But as is wont to happen depressingly often these days, the rest of his answer got lost in the jokes and memes. Sarfaraz wasn’t just saying that he hoped Pakistan scored