FoxSports.com’s Ken Rosenthal has the news via Twitter: MORE: Dodgers rumors | Did contract talk spur trade talk? Pending trade? Maybe. At the very least, a precautionary move by Boston to protect the health of its biggest trade chip a day before the non-waiver deadline. A source told The Boston Globe’s Peter Abraham that Lester is being held out so that a team won’t have to wait four or five days to use him if it acquires him....
Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and others have weighed in on the existence of the LIV Golf Series leading up to the 2022 U.S. Open, but no golfer has had quite the defense of the PGA Tour as Rahm had on Tuesday. While some have offered takedowns of the LIV Golf Series and the PGA Tour defectors, including PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, Rahm, the 2021 U....
And yet, we forge on, tying Stewart’s retirement, tangentially and near-solely for traffic purposes, to one of the times hockey came up on the show. It was when Wayne Gretzky retired in 1999. The next week, Gretzky got a longer sendoff, courtesy of correspondent/sports expert Mo Rocca. Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , Indecision Political Humor , The Daily Show on Facebook “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take....
Stewart discussed his love for wrestling many times on “The Daily Show” and has been a guest on “Monday Night Raw.” He has a friendly relationship with WWE world heavyweight champion Seth Rollins; Rollins appeared on the show multiple times. MORE: Athletes on ‘The Daily Show’ | Adam Cole ready to prove he’s back | That time Stewart called ‘Rock & Jock’ SummerSlam is a four-hour event that will take place in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center....
In the interview with Jay Glazer, Incognito told his side of the story, claiming that his actions were "coming from a place of love" and that he is definitely not a racist. At one point in the interview, Incognito revealed that Martin had sent him a text message saying "I will murder your whole (expletive) family." While Incognito did say that it was received as a joke, he used this message as the backbone of his defense....
The Canadian psychologist was suspended from Twitter recently for a tweet he posted about actor Elliot Page, in which Peterson deadnamed Page. Soon after, he posted a passionate video reply on his Instagram and YouTube channel where he said he’d “rather die” than delete the tweet to get himself back on the platform. It’s now a good job Peterson isn’t on Twitter, as a snippet from that 15-minute speech has been adapted and repurposed for a series of memes there....
The frontman is part of a three-man shortlist, which also includes defender Alfie Mawson and goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski. Of seven games played by the club in January, Jordan started five, netting three times. He scored his first goal in a 1-1 away draw with Newcastle United in the Premier League, before netting a solo effort in the 2-1 triumph over Wolverhampton Wanderers in the FA Cup. And on Wednesday, the 26-year-old was at it again with a cool finish in a 3-1 league victory over Arsenal....
MORE: PGA Tour 2015-16 winners | Worst Masters meltdowns The Dallas native entered this week with three runner-up finishes in Texas, failing to secure a victory. That all changed Sunday, when Spieth chipped in for birdie on the par-4 17th. That shot gave Spieth a two-shot lead with one hole to play. Meanwhile, English was in the 18th fairway after he hit a tee shot that looked like a dead-pull, but somehow stayed in the left fairway....
He shot a 3-over-par 74 at Harbour Town Golf Links on Thursday, leaving him eight strokes behind first-round leaders Graeme McDowell and Matt Every at the RBC Heritage. MORE: Leaderboard | Masters images | Spieth writes letter of thanks to family | Tony Romo has lost a lot of money to Spieth Spieth didn’t offer excuses, but he had a decent one available: This has been no ordinary week for him....
The wide receiver was placed on the physically unable to perform list Monday and doesn’t have a timetable for his return, but he chalked the incident up as a “hiccup” and said he plans to play in the season opener against the Jaguars on Sept. 11. SEASON PREVIEW: AFC picks | NFC picks | Super Bowl pick Nelson was quick to say it wasn’t his right knee, which suffered a torn ACL a year ago, and there’s no need for fans to “freak out....
Jose Ramirez will try once more to defend his WBC junior welterweight championship in his back yard when he takes on Antonio Orozco on Sept. 14 at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, Calif. Ramirez (22-0, 16 KOs), the pride of California’s Central Valley, was supposed to make his first title defense in the arena on July 7, but his opponent then, Danny O’Connor, had to pull out because of severe dehydration caused by his weight cut, which landed him in a California hospital....
The Rangers just completed a three-game sweep of the Yankees to extend a season-best five-game winning streak. Now, enter Hamilton, a five-time All-Star and AL MVP in his previous stint with the team. He’ll likely move into the lineup batting fifth and playing left field—and, Prince Fielder said, making the Rangers better in the process. “It’s not going to be bad, that’s for sure,” said Fielder, who has been on a white-hot streak of late, including nine RBIs in the Yankees series....
Hawley shared a letter he’d written to Cook on Twitter on Tuesday as protests have spread in China with demonstrators expressing anger at the government’s stringent COVID-19 policies. A Foxconn factory, Apple’s key manufacturing hub and supplier in Zhengzhou, the capital and largest city of the east-central Henan province, has also been disrupted due to recent protests about COVID-19 restrictions and a delay in bonuses. “I’d like to know why @Apple continues to aid and abet the totalitarian regime in #China while campaigning against free speech at home,” Hawley tweeted, sharing his letter....
“The Left is already melting down about my book!” the Missouri senator tweeted on its release date. He fired back at political writer Gilad Edelman, who panned the book, tweeting that it “couches a familiar critique of Big Tech within a political-historical argument that gets almost every important point completely wrong.” “Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world,” the book’s description also says....
The Lions on Saturday announced they signed the free agent quarterback after Tom Savage suffered a head injury in Thursday’s preseason game against the Patriots, making Detroit the 13th team Johnson has joined. The Lions also inked free agent running back Justin Stockton, though terms of the deals were not disclosed. Johnson, 33, initially was drafted by the Buccaneers in the fifth round of the 2008 draft. He also played for the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League and was expected to play for the San Diego Fleet of the Alliance of American Football before the Redskins signed him last year....
Norman was with the Panthers last year and shut down Bryant, holding him to two catches for 26 yards in a 33-14 Panthers win. MORE: Redskins-Cowboys Game Center Bryant got a little revenge Thursday. Norman is now with the Redskins and Bryant caught five passes for 72 yards in a 31-26 Cowboys victory. Three of those catches were against Norman, who was credited with four tackles but zero pass breakups....
The prohibition against new-car ownership is just one of the myriad rules the junta imposes in its obsession with controlling every aspect of Burma. While it pays lip service to “true patriotism,” the government goes out of its way to make things as difficult as possible for its citizens. Small wonder most Burmese scoff at the generals’ trumpeted national manifesto, which includes the objective to “uplift … the morale and morality of the entire nation....
The host of MSNBC’s The ReidOut took to TikTok to discuss Rittenhouse’s tearful moment while testifying in his trial, which she compared to Brett Kavanaugh’s weeping during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing back in 2018. In her video, Reid said: “This Kyle Rittenhouse trial. It reminded a lot of people of something… I can’t remember what it was.” She then said: “Oh, the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, in which Brett Kavanaugh who had been accused by a high school friend of committing sexual abuse of her, cried his way through the hearings to make him a permanent member and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court....
Custer, the son of Stewart-Haas Racing executive Joe Custer, became the youngest winner in NASCAR Truck Series history last year with a win at New Hampshire. He turns 17 later this month and will run 10 Camping World Truck Series races as well as select ARCA and K&N Pro Series East events for JR Motorsports. MORE: Kurt Busch hearing update | Top Sprint Cup prospects | Drivers fans love to see win | Drivers who need to step up...
The two first met back in 2012 with Chocolatito defeated the up-and-comer by unanimous decision in a light flyweight showdown. But it was in that fight that Estrada (41-3, 28 KOs) proved that he would be a force in the boxing world for years to come. Estrada would go on to win 15 of his next 16 fights, with his lone loss coming to Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, who was fresh off of back-to-back victories over Chocolatito....
