5:10 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens activated nose tackle Brandon Williams, quarterback Trace McSorley and injured cornerbacks Tavon Young and Khalil Dorsey from the reserve/COVID-19 list on Tuesday. The Ravens have trimmed the number of players on the reserve/COVID-19 list to 16 players, which marks the first time they have reduced
Month: December 2020
4:11 PM ET Gordon Hayward says he feels no “ill-will” toward the Boston Celtics after deciding to opt out of the final year of his deal and agree to a new four-year, $120 million contract with the Charlotte Hornets. “Tough decisions were certainly made,” Hayward said during a conference call with reporters Tuesday. “There’s no
3:43 PM ET Associated Press FULLERTON, Calif. — Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda has been moved out of intensive care, although he remains hospitalized in Southern California. Los Angeles Dodgers spokesperson Steve Brener said Tuesday that the team’s former manager, who is 93, is doing rehab at a hospital in Orange County. Lasorda has
3:36 PM ET Associated Press No. 19 Richmond’s men’s basketball is pausing all activities and its game at College of Charleston on Wednesday night has been called off due to COVID-19 concerns within the Spiders program. Charleston said Tuesday it will look to reschedule with Richmond or find another opponent to make up the lost
3:14 PM ET The New York Mets have reached agreement on a two-year contract with right-handed reliever Trevor May, sources confirm to ESPN. The deal is pending a physical and could be official as soon as Wednesday, the sources said. May, 31, was 1-0 with a 3.86 ERA and two saves in 24 appearances for
3:02 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers have found their home for the holidays. Days after they were blindsided by the announcement from Santa Clara County that contact sports are banned for the next three weeks, the 49ers have officially decided to move their entire football operation to Arizona for at
3:06 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN RJ Barrett says he is using failing to make either the first or second All-Rookie NBA teams this past season as motivation heading into his sophomore campaign. “It bothered me a lot,” Barrett said Tuesday as the New York Knicks opened training camp. “Not going to lie. It bothered me
3:17 PM ET The expansion Seattle Kraken haven’t established a timeline for naming their first head coach, citing uncertainty regarding the 2020-21 NHL season. “No real rush on the timeline there. We still don’t have an understanding of what the 2020-21 season is going to look like, and how many games that they’ll play,” general
7:41 PM GMT South Africa’s national teams face tougher transformation targets aimed at ensuring that by the 2022-23 season they field a side with seven players of colour. The new measures may have already kicked in though have yet to be made public, and see an increased requirement on the number of black African players
3:16 PM ET Alex Kirkland Real Madrid were left relying on results elsewhere to qualify from Champions League group B after they were beaten 2-0 by Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday. An encouraging start saw Marco Asensio hit the post from close range inside the first five minutes after being picked out by Karim Benzema. The
2:58 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Indians rookie reliever Cam Hill underwent surgery on his right wrist after being involved in a car accident in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hill shared details of the incident on his Instagram account, saying he was “very blessed to only bang up my wrist. Surgery went really well, most importantly
Williams driver George Russell is the leading contender to replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes for this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix. Mercedes have guided Russell’s career since 2017 and have approached Williams to see if the team would release him. The fall-back position is for Mercedes to use their reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne. He raced for
2:30 PM ET The Stanford football team will spend at least the next two weeks on the road after Santa Clara County issued a health order over the weekend that temporarily prevents contact sports. Stanford will travel to Seattle on Tuesday ahead of Saturday’s game at Washington, then will travel to Corvallis, Oregon, where it
2:08 PM ET Ohio State will resume team activities Tuesday as it hopes to play later this week at Michigan State. The fourth-ranked Buckeyes paused activities Friday night and canceled Saturday’s game at Illinois after a rise in COVID-19 cases in the program. Ohio State hasn’t revealed specific numbers of those who have tested positive,
2:46 PM ET Retired Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops made a brief return to the field on Tuesday, coach Lincoln Riley said. “We brought Coach Stoops out of retirement today,” Riley said at his weekly news conference. “He was out on the field and coached with us today. It was great to have him out there.”
11:30 AM ET USC is cleared to resume workouts Tuesday as the team prepares for Sunday’s game against Washington State. Coach Clay Helton said USC’s latest round of COVID-19 tests all came back negative. The Washington State game was moved from Friday to Sunday, which allows both teams to get players back from coronavirus-related quarantine.
1:10 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones does not sound as if he has any sympathy for the Denver Broncos being forced to use practice-squad wide receiver Kendall Hinton at quarterback in Week 12 against the New Orleans Saints. “I don’t know that Denver had any more of
1:37 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN A lifelong lesson has come back to help Victor Oladipo amid rumors the Pacers star wants out of Indiana. “Growing up, I was always taught not to engage in nonsense,” Oladipo said. “I never have. I never came out and said that I didn’t want to play for the Pacers