8:50 AM ET CHICAGO — It was opening night, 2016. The young Chicago Cubs were coming off a surprising run in the previous year’s playoffs — all the way to the National League Championship Series. Now it was time to pick up where they left off, as the team began the new season against the
10:38 PM ET ESPN News Services Friday started with bad injury news for the New York Yankees. It ended with the same. An MRI revealed that reliever Dellin Betances has a spur causing inflammation in his right shoulder, general manager Brian Cashman said. The right-hander will receive a cortisone shot Saturday and will be shut
10:10 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods had emerged from a door near the Augusta National clubhouse, had turned left toward a tangle of reporters when his close aide, Rob McNamara, called out his name. “Watch out for those security guards,” McNamara said. The aide laughed. Woods laughed. Tiger would try to downplay the
Will Bruin netted a brace and Cristian Roldan scored to extend Seattle Sounders’ unbeaten streak to six games and hand Toronto their first loss of the season. Major League Soccer: Jozy Altidore (11′) Seattle Sounders 0-1 Toronto FC Will Bruin scored twice as the Seattle Sounders remained undefeated with a 3-2 victory against visiting Toronto
10:25 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia native Elliott Sadler retired after last season, but made his return to NASCAR’s Xfinity Series on Friday night at Richmond Raceway. The 43-year-old Sadler drove for Kaulig Racing, finishing 12th in one of just two planned starts this season. He is also scheduled to race at
10:12 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Cole Custer was openly hoping for rain to shorten the NASCAR Xfinity race at Richmond Raceway on Friday night. Then, he was desperately hoping for the rain to stay away. Custer passed Austin Cindric with 20 laps to go and earned his second victory of the season.
9:23 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — If you wanted drama and star power for the weekend at Augusta National Golf Club, the 83rd edition of the Masters has more than delivered. There is more star power atop the leaderboard than on the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard. Five players share the 36-hole lead, and each of
11:58 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Super middleweight world titlist Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez made the move up to the light heavyweight division and turned in a dominating performance on Friday night at the Staples Center. Ramirez, who still holds the 168-pound belt he has defended five times, laid a beating on Tommy Karpency before Karpency’s
8:15 AM ET LEXINGTON, Ky. — Someone is missing. The Kentucky Wildcats‘ pro day is underway in Nutter Field House, where 15 NFL hopefuls are running, jumping and short-shuttling for an army of stopwatch-wielding men who look as if they jumped off the pages of “team store” catalogs. Every team is represented as they evaluate
11:11 AM ET Just mentioning the words “interim title” is enough to stir debate in mixed martial arts. The UFC has, at times, created interim championships seemingly for the sole purpose of selling a pay-per-view event — and perhaps has devalued its title belts and undisputed champions in the process. So you can imagine the