7:25 PM ET Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — Minnesota Timberwolves guard Derrick Rose was ruled out Sunday against Oklahoma City with a sore left ankle. Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau made the announcement prior to the game. Rose left Friday’s game at San Antonio in the second quarter. Rose has started the previous three games. He
6:42 PM ET In an unprecedented move, the UFC is relocating next weekend’s UFC 232 pay-per-view event from Las Vegas to Los Angeles because of a licensing issue involving Jon Jones in the state of Nevada. UFC president Dana White broke the news on SportsCenter on Sunday. UFC 232, originally scheduled to take place at
6:01 PM GMT Bath moved into the top six in the Gallagher Premiership thanks to an inspired performance from Freddie Burns as they beat Wasps 24-14. Fly-half Burns scored 19 points including a fine first-half try and Will Chudley also crashed over for Todd Blackadder’s side. Wasps gave themselves hope through Thomas Young’s score but
3:10 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — San Jose Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson has been suspended two games for an illegal check to the head of Los Angeles Kings forward Austin Wagner. The NHL’s department of player safety announced the fine Sunday. San Jose’s Erik Karlsson has been suspended for two games for an
A New Zealand columnist who should know better, but quite often does not, asked why the All Blacks should not be handed the World Cup now, just in time for first South Africa, then (without quite closing the deal) England and, conclusively, Ireland to show exactly why. Eddie Jones’s third season syndrome kicked in and
2:03 PM ET Austin Rivers has agreed to a guaranteed deal for rest of the season with the Houston Rockets, a league source told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Rivers will likely help Houston replace Chris Paul, who will miss at least two weeks with a Grade 2 strain of his left hamstring suffered in Thursday’s loss
6:00 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Randy Gregory with the momentum-changing sack and fumble of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston allows Jaylon Smith to return the turnover 69 yards for a Dallas Cowboys‘ touchdown near the end of the first quarter on Sunday at AT&T Stadium. The Cowboys went up on the Bucs, 14-3.
1:44 PM ET Umpire Tanvir Ahmed, whose erroneous no-ball calls during the third T20I between Bangladesh and West Indies had caused an eight-minute halt in play, has admitted that he had made a mistake. Off what was supposed to be the final ball of the fourth over of Bangladesh’s chase of 191, Tanvir wrongly pulled
1:30 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Nashville Predators forward Ryan Hartman has been fined $1,000 by the NHL for spearing Boston Bruins forward Chris Wagner. The incident occurred at 19:04 of the second period of the Bruins’ 5-2 victory over Nashville on Saturday night. The league’s department of player safety announced the fine
11:33 AM ET Buried beneath the anticipation of Manny Machado’s tour of teams and a continued flurry of trades, The Associated Press published news that was jarring and yet completely unsurprising to some agents and executives: For the first time since 2004, the average salary of major league players declined. Not by much, mind you.