5:44 PM ET Associated Press FRISCO, Texas — Andrej Sekera announced his retirement on Tuesday after almost two decades in the NHL. The Slovak defenseman played the past 15 full seasons since making his debut in 2006. Sekera played 888 regular-season and playoff games for the Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes, Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers
4:24 PM ET Henry Cejudo’s ultimate goal — and one of the main reasons he is coming out of retirement — is to challenge for the UFC featherweight title. But it’s more likely Cejudo returns initially at bantamweight. Cejudo told ESPN in an interview published Tuesday that he wants to fight Alexander Volkanovski for the
4:13 PM ET Associated Press HAMBURG, Germany — Top-seeded players Carlos Alcaraz and Anett Kontaveit won their first-round matches at the Hamburg European Open on Tuesday, while Emil Ruusuvuori had an upset win over Diego Schwartzman. Alcaraz, 19, dropped the first set but recovered to win 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (3) against 259th-ranked German wild card
3:20 PM ET The UFC is finalizing a welterweight fight between Khamzat Chimaev and Nate Diaz to headline UFC 279 on Sept. 10, UFC Chief Business Officer Hunter Campbell told ESPN on Tuesday. Contracts have not been signed, but both fighters have verbally agreed to the matchup and date according to Campbell. UFC 279 will
12:20 PM ET Associated Press The New Jersey Devils acquired Vitek Vanecek so he would compete for the starting goaltender job. Now they’re paying him in line with those expectations. Vanecek and the team agreed to terms Tuesday on a $10.2 million, three-year contract that counts $3.4 million against the salary cap through 2025. After
7:00 AM ET Before Paul Goldschmidt was a seven-time All-Star himself, he was a kid growing up in the Houston area, going to Astros games and voting for his favorite All-Stars: Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio, Lance Berkman, from that great generation of Astros players in the 1990s and early 2000s. “The hard part was deciding
9:37 AM ET In 2021, the NFL approved rule changes allowing alternate helmets with throwback uniforms. The use of a second helmet was dropped in 2013 over concerns that wearing more than one helmet might not be safe for players. As those concerns have eased, clubs have lobbied for a second helmet because options for
11:47 AM ET Associated Press Billy Andrade has been selected to receive the Payne Stewart Award this year, which has become one of the highest honors for PGA Tour players. The award honors Stewart, who died in a plane crash in October 1999, the year he won the U.S. Open. It is given to players
ENG vs SA, 1st ODI Live: Jason Roy (in picture) opened batting for England with Jonny Bairstow.© AFP England vs South Africa, 1st ODI Live Score And Live Updates: Rassie van der Dussen scored 133 runs off 117 balls as South Africa posted 333 for 5 against England in the first ODI of the three-match series
File photo of Smriti Mandhana (left) and Harmanpreet Kaur.© BCCI As many as 1.2 million tickets have been sold for the Commonwealth Games beginning in Birmingham on July 28, the organisers have said, adding that the women’s cricket match between India and Pakistan has “really caught the interest” of the local public. Women’s cricket is
Canada’s Hugo Houle claimed his first Tour de France stage win with a brilliant solo ride to victory in Foix. The 31-year-old Israel-Premier Tech rider became the first Canadian to win on the Tour since Steve Bauer in 1988. Bauer is now the sporting director of Houle’s team, who saw another Canadian rider, Michael Woods,
7:00 AM ET An incredible era has come to an end at Bayern Munich with the news that one of the Bundesliga club’s greatest-ever goal scorers, Robert Lewandowski, has left to embark on a new challenge at Barcelona in LaLiga. 2 Related Eight trophy-laden years after joining on a free transfer from Borussia Dortmund, Lewandowski
10:04 AM ET Before defensive end Carl Nassib announced he was gay in June 2021, he agonized over the decision, he says. Nassib, who is a free agent after being released by the Las Vegas Raiders earlier this year, told “Good Morning America” co-anchor Michael Strahan in an interview that aired Tuesday that he “stared
9:00 AM ET The Professional Fighters League playoffs are set to commence on Aug. 5 in New York City with semifinals in the light heavyweight and men’s lightweight divisions. From there, the playoffs will visit Cardiff, Wales, on Aug. 13 (featuring heavyweights and welterweights) and London on Aug. 20 (featherweights, women’s lightweights) before wrapping up
7:00 AM ET NHL free agency is in full swing and teams have been taking advantage of their yearly opportunity to get better. Well, some teams are. Others have been weirdly silent, unwilling to make moves to clear cap space, or simply aren’t doing much when more is required. There are also teams that fall
7:00 AM ET IT’S A MONDAY afternoon in late May, and for the first time in more than 30 years, Bronco Mendenhall isn’t working the phones with recruits or planning staff meetings. Instead, he’s in his truck, boots and spurs on, waiting out a rainstorm. Mendenhall moved west this spring, a return to his roots
6:48 AM ET Naomi Osaka will play in her first tournament since the French Open at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic in August, after accepting a wildcard for the event in San Jose, California. The four-time Grand Slam winner did not play at Wimbledon, citing an Achilles injury and said that the Grand Slam having
6:05 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN If 2021 was the year of the undisputed champion, then 2022 is shaping up as the year of the comeback. Several big-name boxers who suffered high-profile losses last year will compete for the first time in the second part of 2022. Others, like Danny Garcia, didn’t compete in 2021. Adrien