5:20 PM ET St. Louis Blues forward Sammy Blais has been activated from injured reserve, the team announced Tuesday. Blais, 23, missed 28 games while recovering from surgery on his right wrist. He played 20 games before the injury, posting five goals and eight points for the Western Conference-leading Blues. St. Louis went 17-8-3 in
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4:31 PM ET Ernie Els has a unique perspective on the proposed Premier Golf League that hopes to lure the top players in the game to a big-money, team-oriented concept. Els, 50, strongly considered playing in a league with a similar concept more than two decades ago. The South African, who won four major championships
3:52 PM GMT Saracens interim chief executive Edward Griffiths has resigned after less than a month in the role, the Gallagher Premiership have announced. Griffiths had re-signed as chief executive on a one-year contract, having previously left in 2015, after Nigel Wray retired earlier this month. Premiership champions Saracens will be relegated at the end
6:45 AM ET NFL NationESPN Super Bowl LIV on Sunday will showcase some of the NFL’s elite players for the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs — and many of those players have shown great improvements throughout their careers. In an effort to highlight those NFL players who have made big jumps from one
2:30 PM ET Associated Press BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A judge flatly rejected Jerry Sandusky’s latest request to have his 30- to 60-year child molestation sentence reduced during a brief hearing Tuesday. Judge Maureen Skerda said she purposely fashioned the prison term to have an impact on the former Penn State assistant football coach and noted
7:00 AM ET MOSCOW — When U.S. national team defender Megan Bozek signed with the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays of the Russian-based Women’s Hockey League in November, she met the team in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, for an away game. Bozek and fellow American teammate Alex Carpenter dropped off their equipment at the hotel’s front desk.
1:56 PM GMT Ireland captain Johnny Sexton is set to start the team’s Six Nations opener against Scotland this weekend after recovering from a knee injury. Fly-half Sexton has not played since hobbling off while playing for Leinster in a Champions Cup game against Northampton in early December, but last week the 34-year-old confirmed his
8:37 AM ET Steve KimESPN On Jan. 23, trainer Manny Robles announced that he was no longer training Andy Ruiz Jr. After defeating Anthony Joshua back in June to capture the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles, Ruiz was the feel-good story of 2019. But then Ruiz showed up to the rematch in Saudi Arabia
6:03 PM GMT Ollie Pope has said he is ready for the step-up in scrutiny following his breakthrough series in South Africa, and believes that the positive influence of Joe Root and Ben Stokes will help him to translate his impressive form in South Africa on to the slower, spinning decks of Sri Lanka in
12:52 PM ET AVENTURA, Fla. — Patrick Mahomes may have to wait another year for his massive contract extension. Kansas City Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said the Chiefs could wait until next year to sign Mahomes to a new contract. “There will be a right time sometime in the next 12 to 15 months to
12:34 PM GMT Israel Folau will resume his rugby career in the league format of the game after signing for Super League outfit Catalans Dragons on a one-year deal. Folau was sacked by Rugby Australia last year after being found guilty of committing a high-level breach of the organisation’s Code of Conduct after posting a
12:12 PM ET The Professional Fighters League has announced a series of one-night tournaments around the globe that will ultimately feed five new athletes into the 2020 regular-season roster. The league has partnered with five separate organizations in United Arab Emirates, Russia, Germany, Brazil and Australia. Each international promotion will host a four-fighter tournament in
8:07 AM ET A “big fight.” It’s what all boxers, not to mention fans and media, talk about wanting. Of course, the fighters want to win world titles and make the money that goes with them, but they also want the big one — a career-defining showdown that will help shape their legacy, serve as
9:48 AM ET Simon Cambers MELBOURNE, Australia — There are no pictures on the scorecard, as they say in golf, no description of how the score came about, just the result. And after Tuesday’s action at the Australian Open, it’s a phrase that Roger Federer would probably agree with. Whereas Novak Djokovic cruised through his
11:00 AM ET ST. LOUIS — When an Achilles tendon injury last October put WWE star Xavier Woods out of action, he had one request about his downtime. “I told WWE when I got hurt that I’d do anything hockey. Please dear lord, help me go to hockey stuff,” he said. Three weeks ago, the
8:38 AM GMT Christopher Jones David Campese was the ultimate maverick player, using individual brilliance to light up the sport, and he wants to see rugby throw off its coaching shackles as the game prepares to move into overdrive this weekend with the start of the Six Nations Championship, the first round of Super Rugby
Lewis Hamilton has “raised his level” in the last two seasons, but still has weaknesses others are not exploiting, according to Fernando Alonso. Alonso, who left F1 at the end of 2018 and is pondering a return in 2021, says it would be “nice” to test Hamilton. The Spaniard told F1 Racing magazine: “He’s made
8:22 AM ET The text from an unfamiliar 949 number arrived at some ungodly hour in the spring of 2016. I don’t have it anymore. I wish I did. “It’s Kobe. Call me.” I assumed it was a hoax. I called my colleague Ramona Shelburne. I recited the number. She said it was the real