10:44 AM ET PORTLAND, Ore. — On a rainy Thursday at Providence Park, the Portland Timbers‘ home venue has all the trappings of base camp on Mount Everest. Shelters have been constructed. Sleeping bags and blankets are everywhere. Propane canisters and space heaters provide little additional warmth against the December chill. Adult beverages are expected
Month: December 2021
1:54 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jim Fregosi Jr., a special assistant in the Kansas City Royals‘ front office and a son of the longtime major league manager, has died. He was 57. Fregosi died Thursday in Los Angeles, the Royals said. He spent 17 seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies as an
12:15 PM ET LAS VEGAS — One of the best lightweight matchups in UFC history is official. UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira weighed in at 155 pounds and challenger Dustin Poirier hit the scale at 154.5 pounds Friday during the UFC 269 weigh-ins at the UFC Apex. Oliveira will make his first title defense against
Aus vs Eng 1st TestDay 4live Australia vs England 1st Test Day 4 Live:Joe Root and Dawid Malan will look to continue the good work and put the pressure right back on Australia on Day 4 of the first Ashes Test at the Gabba in Brisbane. Australia would like to believe they are still in
11:50 AM GMT England captain Zoe Aldcroft has been named World Rugby Women’s Player of the Year, the governing body announced on Friday, after playing a crucial role in helping the Red Roses to a spectacular 18 consecutive Test wins. Aldcroft is the fourth English player to win the award after Michaela Staniford in 2012,
Mercedes have backed the decision to highlight the potential consequences of dirty driving before the Formula 1 title decider in Abu Dhabi. Governing body the FIA emphasised rules for powers to take points away for “unsportsmanlike” driving or behaviour “contrary to sporting ethics”. Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said it was “a good deterrent for
8:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN More than five years after winning his second Most Valuable Player award, Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry could be on his way to claiming a third. Curry, who is second in the NBA in scoring and first in both 3-pointers made and attempted, got 94 of the 100 first-place
8:00 AM ET COCONUT CREEK, Fla. — Dustin Poirier was at a crossroads early in his career. It was May 2012, and he had just lost his first UFC main event to Chan Sung Jung. It was Poirier’s third UFC fight, and he was only 23 years old. But he felt like he needed a
1:07 AM ET MEMPHIS — After the Los Angeles Lakers squandered an early lead against an undermanned Grizzlies team in Thursday’s 108-95 loss, Anthony Davis said L.A.’s identity is far from the championship contender it’s supposed to be. “These guys already feel like they’re the underdogs when they’re coming in, especially when they’re without their
8:04 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Former pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko steps back into the ring Saturday night at Madison Square Garden to face Richard Commey (9 p.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN+). It will be Lomachenko’s second fight since a shocking loss to Teofimo Lopez that stripped Lomachenko of his three lightweight titles. In his first fight
7:00 AM ET Stan Fischler entered the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame on Thursday, enshrined there after a career in sports media that has spanned seven decades and continues on today with a new gig at The Hockey News. “There’s also a sentimental aspect to it that,” said the 89-year-old. “I was an original THN
7:01 AM ET Sidney Crosby hears a lot on the ice during an NHL game. Cheers and jeers. The cacophony of trash talk, interrupted by a few goal horns. But as the years have passed, Crosby’s started to hear something else: Opponents openly confessing that they had the Pittsburgh Penguins star hanging on their bedroom
6:49 AM ET ESPN News Services The NCAA is stopping the fake slide that Pitt quarterback Kenny Pickett used to score a touchdown in the ACC Championship Game on Saturday. According to a memo from NCAA national coordinator of officials Steve Shaw, referees should interpret a fake slide as a player surrendering himself and end
With his tenure as Team India’s head coach ending after the 2021 T20 World Cup, Ravi Shastri has opened up about the opposition he faced when he had applied for the coach’s job after the end of his stint as Team Director in 2016. Shastri has had three stints with Team India with his first
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen led the way in the first practice session in the Formula 1 championship showdown at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. He was 0.196 seconds quicker than Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas, while Verstappen’s title rival Lewis Hamilton was third, 0.346secs off the pace. Hamilton had a quicker lap – just 0.033secs off
4:00 AM ET Ralf Rangnick has identified Manchester United’s midfield as an area of weakness — ESPN’s Insider Notebook has the latest. Jump to: Chelsea fear Azpilicueta exit | Man City keen on Arsenal’s Tavares | Van De Beek’s Everton move is off | Spurs’ Bergwijn on the move? Rangnick talks up Bellingham, Haidara, Phillips
Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton face off for the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship in Abu Dhabi this weekend in what is arguably the most intense title decider in the sport’s history. And if it’s not the most intense – Ayrton Senna v Alain Prost in 1989 and 1990, which both ended in collisions between
12:00 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS — Sitting at the dais after the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ emotional one-point win against the Baltimore Ravens, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger considered a question. Could a win like that be the springboard the Steelers needed to give their offense and defense momentum into the final five games of the season? “We’ll see,” he
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