7:14 AM ET Less than 24 hours after Arizona State withdrew from the Empire Classic, the Sun Devils are back in — with Baylor dropping out of the event. Arizona State had planned to withdraw on Sunday night, sources told ESPN, after the news that Baylor coach Scott Drew tested positive for COVID-19. The Bears
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5:51 PM ET DeMarcus Cousins has agreed to a one-year deal with the Houston Rockets, a source told ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. A two-time All-NBA center and four-time All-Star, Cousins has only played in 78 regular season games over the last three seasons due to a myriad of leg injuries. Cousins most recently tore his ACL
5:41 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The New York Mets have abandoned their search for a president of baseball operations and will instead focus on hiring a general manager who will report to team president Sandy Alderson. Alderson returned to the team Nov. 6 when Steven Cohen completed his $2.42 billion purchase from
4:44 PM ET Washington Wizards general manager Tommy Sheppard said “there’s no plans” to trade John Wall, and that the former All-Star point guard has not requested a deal. In a video call with reporters Monday, Sheppard was asked several times about Wall, who will attempt to make his way back from a ruptured left
4:01 PM ET A Detroit brewery had created a beer, “Same Old Lager,” that seemed to poke fun at the Detroit Lions. Soon after it’s debut, that beer is no longer around. The Detroit Free Press reported Monday that Eastern Market Brewing Company had stopped making and selling the beer after Hall of Fame running
4:16 PM ET A potentially major news story happened behind closed doors last week, as PFL lightweight champion Kayla Harrison made the 146-pound featherweight limit for the first time in her career. A former two-time Olympic gold medalist in judo, Harrison (8-0) is under contract with PFL, but received permission to fight Courtney King (4-1)
1:34 PM ET Petr Yan has been forced to withdraw from his bantamweight title defense against Aljamain Sterling at UFC 256 on Dec. 12 in Las Vegas for undisclosed reasons, sources confirmed to ESPN following reports out of Yan’s native Russia. Yan is not injured, sources said, but no date for rescheduling the fight has
3:46 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Basketball fans in Wisconsin will have to cheer for their Milwaukee Bucks from inside the house instead of at the Fiserv Forum, at least for the start of the 2020-21 season. The Bucks announced Monday that fans won’t be permitted to attend home games until further notice, due to the
2:30 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jaguars defensive end Josh Allen will miss significant time because of the knee injury he suffered Sunday, and the team might make a determination on whether they’ll place him on injured reserve later in the week. Coach Doug Marrone said Monday that he did not want to elaborate on
3:07 PM ET Notre Dame starting center Jarrett Patterson will miss the rest of the season following foot surgery, while starting guard Tommy Kraemer is out for Friday’s game at No. 25 North Carolina. Coach Brian Kelly on Monday confirmed the outlook for Patterson, who has started the past 21 games for the second-ranked Fighting
1:54 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Indians manager Terry Francona has assembled his coaching staff for the 2021 season, but it won’t include his longtime friend and bench coach Brad Mills. Francona, who missed much of this past shortened season with significant health issues, will replace Mills with DeMarlo Hale. Hale, 59, joins the
1:37 PM ET Florida junior Kyle Pitts, the nation’s top tight end, will return to play against Kentucky on Saturday after missing the past two games recovering from nasal surgery, coach Dan Mullen said. “We’re excited about that,” Mullen told reporters on Monday. Pitts sustained the hit, which prompted surgery and also resulted in a
3:30 PM ET ESPN News Services CHICAGO — Jed Hoyer has a new contract to go with his new position with the Chicago Cubs. The team announced Monday it had agreed to a five-year deal with Hoyer that runs through the 2025 season. The 46-year-old Hoyer was promoted to president of baseball operations when Theo
2:47 PM ET Free-agent center Alex Len plans to sign a one-year deal with the Toronto Raptors, a source told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal is for $2.3 million, the source said. Len is the second free-agent center added by the Raptors after the team lost both Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol in free agency,
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1:55 PM ET One day after Dabo Swinney suggested Florida State ducked last Saturday’s game using a Clemson player’s positive COVID-19 test as an excuse, Seminoles coach Mike Norvell emphatically denied the charge, saying the decision to postpone the game was made entirely by medical personnel. Asked if COVID-19 was the reason for the postponement,
2:12 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The Chicago White Sox will host the New York Yankees in the rescheduled Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, on Aug. 12. MLB said Monday that the plan is tentative, contingent on the status of public health next summer. The teams had been scheduled to play
Darren Bravo swivels into a pull © Getty Images Darren Bravo believes “it’s about time” he started scoring runs for West Indies again, having endured a lean patch coming into the tour of New Zealand. Bravo began the tour well, with a century in the first warm-up match against New Zealand A in Queenstown, and