2:25 PM ET The New York Mets have avoided salary arbitration with Noah Syndergaard, agreeing to a one-year deal worth $9.7 million, sources confirm to ESPN. The deal was first reported Tuesday by USA Today Sports. Syndergaard, 28 missed the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery on his pitching elbow last March. The
6:36 PM ET ESPN News Services Boise State‘s Bryan Harsin is set to become the next head football coach at Auburn, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg. He replaces Gus Malzahn, who was fired earlier this month after eight seasons with the Tigers. The 44-year-old Harsin is 69-19 with three Mountain West titles in
5:24 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. — The Washington Capitals signed winger Conor Sheary to a $735,000, one-year contract Tuesday, giving them additional forward depth going into training camp and the 56-game 2021 season. Sheary played for Buffalo and Pittsburgh last season, finishing with 10 goals and 13 assists in 63 games. He could
1:11 PM ET Florida has been placed on one-year probation and coach Dan Mullen has been given a one-year show-cause order after the NCAA determined that the program violated recruiting contact rules on two occasions in 2019. Mullen was found to have failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance and will be banned from all
2:35 PM ET The Philadelphia Phillies are expected to name Sam Fuld as their general manager, ESPN has confirmed. The promotion would be the latest in a front-office overhaul for the Phillies, who reassigned former GM Matt Klentak in October and named Dave Dombrowski their new president of baseball operations earlier this month. Fuld, 39,
3:23 PM ET LOS ANGELES — When ABC announcer Mike Breen called the closing seconds of the Los Angeles Lakers‘ NBA Finals-clinching victory in October, he proclaimed, “Banner No. 17 will soon hang in the rafters.” He was right about the hanging part. What Breen didn’t know was that when the Lakers open up the
8:30 AM ET Jose Mourinho’s fears over Stoke City‘s away dressing room, described as a “pigsty” by some managers, have been eased after the Championship club upgraded their facilities in time for Wednesday’s Carabao Cup quarterfinal against Tottenham. The Spurs boss said he had been shown a video of conditions at the Bet365 Stadium which
Cricket South Africa on Tuesday announced that the entire Proteas team was negative in results from COVID-19 tests that were conducted this morning. This was the third round of scheduled testing ahead of the first Test match of the two-match series against Sri Lanka, starting on Boxing Day (December 26). As a result, the proteas
Team Ineos rider Luke Rowe has revealed on social media that he has tested positive for Covid-19. The 30-year-old Welshman took to Twitter to announce the positive test for coronavirus. He stated: “Covid got me! See ya in 2021 ladies and gents.” Rowe has been a Tour de France stalwart for Ineos in recent years,
12:45 PM GMT Concussions accounted for 20% of injuries suffered by rugby players in the English Premiership’s 2018-19 season and were the most common injury in matches for an eighth straight season, a Rugby Football Union (RFU) study has said. While the 2002-03 season had 42 concussions recorded in total, that number has since gone
7:07 AM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The tears began as soon as Mirna Ontiveros caught sight of SoFi Stadium. It was a Saturday, on an unusually cold and windy morning, and Mirna still wasn’t sure why she was here. In the months since her husband, an ironworker named Juan Becerra, fell to his death while
8:45 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Yes, of course it is a mismatch. It’s true that Logan Paul, at 6-foot-2 and around 200 pounds, will have some 50 pounds and 6 inches on Floyd Mayweather Jr. when they share a boxing ring on Feb. 20, 2021. But don’t fear for the safety of Mayweather. He has
8:31 AM ET In the past six months, the UFC has seen records fall for the fastest 3-0 start in modern history, most middleweight wins during that span and fastest turnaround for a champ. There have been viral knockouts, stunning submissions and dominance of title contenders. ESPN’s MMA Hot List features the top fighters over
9:15 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — When the Arizona State University hockey team boarded an American Airlines flight in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday for the three-hour and 47-minute trip back to Phoenix, they finally went home. It had been a while since they were last in Arizona. Saturday’s flight was the last leg of a
7:00 AM ET It seems like only 2½ months ago, LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers were hoisting the Larry O’Brien Trophy as champions inside the Orlando bubble. Oh, wait. That’s exactly what happened. Yes, after only 72 days away, NBA basketball is back! Are the Lakers a lock for another title, or could
7:13 AM ET Welcome back to our weekly Heisman Watch for the 2020 college football season. Throughout the season, ESPN.com writers will vote on their top Heisman Trophy candidates. To get the final rankings, we use the following methodology: 14 voters, five votes each. Points system: five points for first-place votes, four points for second-place
Australia vs India: Ravindra Jadeja will be hoping to make his return from injury in MCG.© Instagram Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav took to Instagram to keep their fans updated about their whereabouts as they posted selfies from the airport ahead of India‘s departure for Melbourne for the second Test against Australia. India lost the
7:00 AM ET Normally by this time on the calendar, the MLB hot stove is already cooking with at least some major free-agent signings and offseason trades. But this year? Not so much. While we wait for the movement to pick up, we asked a panel of experts for their opinion on what’s to come.