Month: February 2021

10:39 PM ET James Paxton and the Seattle Mariners are in agreement on a one-year, $8.5 million deal, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Saturday. The contract includes reachable bonuses that could take its value up to $10 million, sources said. Paxton, 32, returns to the city where he spent the first six years of
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8:54 PM ET Third baseman Justin Turner is staying put with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he announced Saturday on Twitter. Turner’s deal is for two years and more than $30 million, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Lettts gooo run it back @Dodgers fans!!! @vaynersports @vaynerbaseball pic.twitter.com/fRY0pvyWMx — Justin Turner (@redturn2) February 14, 2021 Turner, 36,
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8:48 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Austin Cindric opened his Xfinity Series title defense with a Saturday night victory at Daytona International Speedway that could count as the biggest of his blossoming career. Cindric got a push to the lead at the start of two-lap overtime from AJ Allmendinger that gave him
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4:27 PM GMT England put last week’s Scotland defeat behind them with a six-try 41-18 Six Nations victory over Italy at Twickenham on Saturday as Anthony Watson scored two tries and Jonny May claimed a memorable one with an astonishing, acrobatic leap. – Play ESPN’s Rugby Pick’em for FREE Italy took a shock second-minute lead
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7:36 PM ET LeBron James and Kyle Kuzma both received warnings for violating the NBA’s anti-flopping rule in the Los Angeles Lakers‘ 115-105 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday, the league announced. The NBA said James’ violation occurred with 2 minutes, 33 seconds remaining in the second quarter when James, positioned between Dillon Brooks
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7:13 PM ET Tom Seipel, the Cleveland fan who got to see his team play one final time with the help of quarterback Baker Mayfield, has died at the age of 39. Seipel had been battling kidney cancer. His friend posted the news to Seipel’s Instagram account. During the final week of the regular season,
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7:04 PM GMT Wales roared back from a 17-3 half time deficit to complete a remarkable 25-24 Six Nations win over Scotland on Saturday, in a crackling encounter that saw momentum shift time and again. – Play ESPN’s Rugby Pick’em for FREE Winger Darcy Graham darted onto a clever chip from Ali Price to score
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6:16 PM ET Kamaru Usman and Gilbert Burns have faced off hundreds of times with each other in practice. On Saturday, they’ll do it for real. Usman will defend his UFC welterweight title against Burns, his former sparring partner, in the main event of UFC 258 in Las Vegas. Purchase UFC 258 here. “I know
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5:17 PM ET New Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian got a commitment from the No. 2-ranked quarterback in the 2022 class on Saturday when Maalik Murphy announced his intention to play for the Longhorns. Murphy is a 6-foot-5, 220-pound signal-caller from Junipero Serra High School in Gardena, California. He chose Texas over offers from Baylor,
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5:27 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty and Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Soroka won their salary arbitration cases Saturday, while Tampa Bay Rays reliever Ryan Yarbrough lost his case. Flaherty was awarded a raise from from $604,500 to $3.9 million by arbitrators Howard Edelman, Steven Wolf and Walt
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