Month: July 2023

Jul 19, 2023, 01:41 PM ET The Seattle Kraken extended the contract of head coach Dave Hakstol through the 2025-26 season on Wednesday. Financial terms of the deal were not announced by the team for Hakstol, who was named as a Jack Adams Award finalist for coach of the year after guiding the Kraken to
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Baxter Holmes, ESPN Senior WriterJul 19, 2023, 02:33 PM ET Close Baxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. Tennessee law enforcement on Wednesday arrested Davonte Pack, a longtime
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ESPN News Services Jul 19, 2023, 01:52 PM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers placed newly signed outfielder Jake Marisnick on the 10-day injured list Wednesday. Marisnick recorded a single before exiting Tuesday’s 10-3 victory at Baltimore with a left hamstring strain. Including four games with the Dodgers, Marisnick is batting .237 with two homers and
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Jul 19, 2023, 01:12 PM ET Philadelphia Phillies pitching prospect Andrew Painter needs Tommy John surgery, the team said Wednesday. The 20-year-old right-hander will have a consultation with Dr. Neal ElAttrache on Monday in Los Angeles. Painter has been in an injury management program since March 2, when an MRI revealed a partial tear in
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Alex Scarborough, ESPN Staff WriterJul 19, 2023, 01:27 PM ET Close Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Looking back on last season, in which Alabama missed the College Football Playoff for only the second time in nine years, Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said his team fell
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Associated Press Jul 19, 2023, 12:02 PM ET CHICAGO –Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said his law firm and other attorneys have received reports of hazing within Northwestern University’s baseball and softball programs, in addition to growing complaints of hazing within the Wildcats’ football program. At Wednesday news conference, Crump and Chicago attorney Steven Levin
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Jake Trotter, ESPN Staff WriterJul 19, 2023, 12:04 PM ET Close Jake Trotter covers the Cleveland Browns for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011 covering college football. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown (Ohio) Journal newspapers. You can follow him on Twitter @Jake_Trotter. BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns released
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Greg Wyshynski, ESPNJul 19, 2023, 11:27 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. New NHL Players’ Association executive director Marty Walsh said he’s focused on getting NHL players back into the Winter Olympics for the 2026 Milano Cortina Games in Italy. The NHL hasn’t participated in the Olympic men’s ice hockey tournament
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Jul 19, 2023, 11:33 AM ET The Brooklyn Nets and Cleveland Cavaliers will play a regular-season game in Paris next season. The clash, which will be the NBA’s third regular-season game in the French capital, will be played at Accor Arena on Jan. 11, 2024. The Nets previously have played in Paris, having done so
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ESPN News Services Jul 19, 2023, 11:40 AM ET The Baltimore Orioles put outfielder Cedric Mullins on the 10-day injured list Wednesday with a right adductor groin strain. The move is retroactive to July 16. Mullins left Saturday’s game against the Miami Marlins in the second inning with right quadriceps tightness. He appeared to hurt
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Jul 19, 2023, 11:29 AM ET The Oklahoma City Thunder have given a multiyear extension to head coach Mark Daigneault, general manager Sam Presti announced Wednesday. Terms were not announced. Daigneault, who finished second to Mike Brown in NBA Coach of the Year voting last season, led the Thunder to a 40-42 record and a
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Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 19, 2023, 08:56 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia HOYLAKE, England — With the purse for The Open more than doubling over the past decade, R&A CEO Martin Slumbers on Wednesday wouldn’t rule out taking money
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Jul 19, 2023, 09:59 AM ET Pittsburgh Steelers pass-rusher Alex Highsmith has signed a four-year, $68 million contract extension, his agents told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Highsmith will make over $27.7 million in guarantees and $38 million over the first two new years of the deal, according to his agents. The Steelers announced the contract Wednesday
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Jul 19, 2023, 09:42 AM ET Dallas Cowboys six-time All-Pro guard and team captain Zack Martin is considering not reporting to training camp due to his unhappiness with his contract and the team’s lack of interest in restructuring it, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Martin believes he is “woefully underpaid relative to the market,” a
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