Jack Hughes has committed to the Devils for the next eight years. (Getty) The New Jersey Devils took no risks with Jack Hughes. The team announced on Tuesday that Hughes inked an eight-year, $64-million deal ahead of the 20-year-old centre’s RFA eligibility. The first-overall pick of the 2019 draft, Hughes was set to become a …
Bryan Barberena will indeed fight on Saturday at UFC on ESPN 31. After original opponent Matt Brown was forced to withdraw from the event due to a positive COVID-19 test, Darian Weeks has agreed to step in and fight Barberena in a welterweight bout. The UFC announced the new matchup between Barberena (15-8 MMA, 6-6 …
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Frustration for Great Britain as they crash out of the Davis Cup with defeat to Germany – REUTERS Great Britain captain Leon Smith summed up a “tough day to swallow” as his team crashed out of the Davis Cup in the quarter-finals, after squandering endless tiebreak chances in a brutally tight loss to Germany. As …
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As Lando Norris heads into the final two races of the 2021 season, he has answered many of the questions he had in his own head about himself before the year started. For someone who is very much in the top echelon of the emerging generation of new Formula 1 stars, the 22-year-old is a …
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The Australian Open is requiring all competitors in 2022’s first Grand Slam to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The requirement recently announced by host state Victoria immediately raised questions about the eligibility of Novak Djokovic. The nine-time and defending Australian Open champion has declined to publicly state his vaccine status, but has railed against vaccine requirements. …
It’s time for a trip to the Bahamas. The biggest stars in the game are headed to Albany for a little getaway, where they’ll also play some golf. Tiger Woods’ Hero World Challenge took a year off last season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but returns with an enormous amount of juice. Why you may …
4:07 PM ET Undisputed welterweight champion Jessica McCaskill is still scheduled to fight on the undercard of the Devin Haney-Joseph Diaz fight on Saturday night. It’s just her opponent that will change in Las Vegas. McCaskill will now fight Kandi Wyatt, out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, after her initial opponent, Argentinian Victoria Bustos, had travel …
John Wall‘s absence only benefits the Houston Rockets‘ ability to lose games. Unless you consider being paid $44.3 million to not play at some cost to his own legacy a benefit for the 31-year-old five-time All-Star. The Rockets and Wall met on Sunday to discuss his future, and they left with little more clarity beyond …
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Kris Bryant treated art in dugout with Giants 2021 When Javier Baez agreed to a six-year deal worth $140 million with the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday, the Mets lost a player who excelled after being acquired from the Chicago Cubs last season, and was one of the best fits for them when the offseason began. …
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11:37 AM ET Tiger Woods was optimistic about playing some limited professional golf in the future while also being realistic about the struggles ahead, given the perspective he gleaned from the serious auto accident he endured in February. “I’m lucky to be alive and also have a limb,” Woods said Tuesday in the Bahamas, where …
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2:26 PM ET Tiger Woods offered hope of a return but also a sobering assessment of his situation in his first interviews since a serious car crash in February. Speaking at his first news conference Tuesday, a day after a lengthy video conversation with Golf Digest was released, Woods expressed gratitude for being alive and …
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Every week during the 2021 NFL season, we’re going to — just being honest here — overreact to what we’ve seen on the field for a different NFL team and begin projecting NFL draft prospects at positions of concerning need. Think of it as a mini one-team mock draft, with early (Rounds 1-2), middle (Rounds …
To any Notre Dame fans angry at the departure of Brian Kelly to LSU, they’d be better off channeling that emotion to being thankful for what he’s leaving his successor. Kelly’s 12 seasons included the resuscitation of the program from the ashes of the Charlie Weis era, the modernization of the program to compete in …
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12:03 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN NEW YORK — Teofimo Lopez promised a first-round knockout and pushed hard to accomplish just that by unloading on George Kambosos, but the opening round ended with the champion on the canvas. Turns out, the knockdown wasn’t a fluke but a harbinger of what was to come Saturday night at …
A year ago, there was a push among some boosters, some administrators and plenty of fans for the University of Michigan to fire Jim Harbaugh. Harbaugh had returned to his alma mater in 2015 with great fanfare and huge expectations. Six seasons later, he’d brought the Wolverines back to respectability (.690 winning percentage), but the …
Could Patrick Roy and Jeff Gorton co-exist? Roy seems to think so. After the Montreal Canadiens officially switched out Marc Bergevin for Gorton, announcing their intention to bring in a French-speaking general manager to work in tandem with their new president of hockey operations, the former Habs legend has publicly stated his interest — even …
Sorry Spurs look to turn the tide As frustrating as it was for the fans that had travelled to Burnley on Sunday, and especially Ken and Brandy Saxton, who’d made a 31-hour journey from Texas, the Spurs boss, Antonio Conte, won’t mind the fact that his side have a full week’s rest in-between fixtures after …
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NASCAR.com Menards partners with two Team Penske Cup cars for 2022 MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Team Penske and Menards announced today that the industry-leading home improvement store chain will continue to build on its partnership with the Championship-winning racing organization in 2022. Menards will sponsor both the No. 2 Ford Mustang that will be driven by …
