Month: April 2023

3:39 PM ET CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox activated designated hitter Eloy Jimenez (hamstring) from the injured list Friday and placed third baseman Yoan Moncada on it with a back ailment, the team announced before its game against the Baltimore Orioles. Moncada, 27, was off to a fast start after playing in the WBC
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3:06 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Major League Baseball umpire Larry Vanover was released from the hospital Friday, two days after being hit in the head with a relay throw by a Guardians player during a game against the New York Yankees. Vanover was discharged from the Cleveland Clinic after being under care for
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1:54 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Mikaela Mayer will fight Lucy Wildheart on Saturday in London after her original opponent, Christina Linardatou, was denied a license by the British Boxing Board of Control due to her prefight eye exam, a source confirmed to ESPN on Friday. Mayer, an Olympian who fights out of Colorado Springs, Colorado,
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1:59 PM ET Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Myron Medcalf Close Myron Medcalf ESPN Staff Writer Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Mikey Williams, an elite and popular basketball prospect who is set
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8:59 AM ET Associated Press MONACO — American Taylor Fritz upset two-time defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2, 6-4 to reach the Monte Carlo Masters semifinals Friday. Second-seeded Tsitsipas was on a 12-match winning streak on the French Cote d’Azur, where he claimed his two Masters 1000 titles. “I stuck to the strategy of pulling the
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1:40 PM ET The NBA Board of Governors has approved the ownership share purchase of the Milwaukee Bucks by Dee and Jimmy Haslam from team co-owner Marc Lasry, it was announced Friday. The Haslams, who own the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, had reached an agreement to purchase approximately 25% of the Bucks from Lasry fr $3.5
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1:18 PM ET DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks have been fined $750,000 by the NBA for “conduct detrimental to the league” after an investigation into the franchise’s decision to sit several key players for the April 7 loss that eliminated the team from play-in contention. The NBA commenced an investigation the day after the Mavs
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11:00 AM ET World No. 3 Rory McIlroy reportedly was docked $3 million for withdrawing from this week’s RBC Heritage under new PGA rules regarding “designated events.” According to Golf Digest and Sports Illustrated, the fine is for a second absence from a designated event and will be withheld from the $12 million payment to
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10:57 AM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Pitcher Archie Bradley has agreed to a minor league contract with the Miami Marlins as he tries to return from a broken elbow that ended his 2022 season. The 30-year-old right-hander would get a $1 million base salary in the major leagues if added to the 40-man roster.
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