8:00 AM ET Which NBA teams are making the biggest moves after an action-packed weekend? On Saturday, the Miami Heat toppled the Philadelphia 76ers in a matchup of the top two teams in the Eastern Conference. James Harden didn’t suit up — he was held out in the second leg of a back-to-back — but
Month: March 2022
7:53 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Kamaru Usman stood on stage Friday afternoon at T-Mobile Arena, his daughter Samirah next to him. The UFC welterweight champion and ESPN’s pound-for-pound MMA king was participating in a question-and-answer session with UFC interviewer Megan Olivi ahead of the UFC 272 ceremonial weigh-ins. Usman was asked if the winner
7:14 AM ET The Kansas City Chiefs are putting their franchise tag on offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr., league sources tell ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Brown, who turns 26 on May 2, becomes the first free-agent-to-be this offseason known to be getting the franchise tag. The deadline for teams to designate franchise players is Tuesday at
7:00 AM ET Ninety-one games. So far. That’s the number of games that have been lopped off the schedule after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s news conference last week. We can only hope that the number doesn’t go up. For now, if an agreement is reached post haste, the plan is for each team to pick
7:00 AM ET After false alarms at Michigan and Auburn, the 2021-22 college football coaching carousel has stopped spinning for good. The end to a wild cycle provides the opportunity to examine the coaching hires from the recent past. Borrowing an NFL idea from colleague Bill Barnwell, I will rank the top 10 college coaching
5:17 PM ET Ahead of their midweek Champions League showdown, Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain endured mixed fortunes. Elsewhere, Jesse Marsch made his Premier League managerial debut, Thomas Muller scored an “unforgettable” own goal and Manchester United had a derby day they will want to forget. Here are Alex Kirkland, Ryan O’Hanlon, Andrew Cesare Richardson
4:18 AM GMT All Blacks greats Jeff Wilson and John Kirwan have taken aim at Australian rugby, suggesting the country again must cut back to four Super Rugby franchises if it can’t find a way to keep more of its top-level talent on home soil. While the New Zealand and Australia teams are still weeks
2:09 AM GMT South Africa’s director of rugby Rassie Erasmus has denied he made public his now infamous 62-minute video critique of the performance of the match officials after the first Test against the British & Irish Lions last year. Erasmus was found guilty of misconduct by an independent committee in November and suspended from
Hosts New Zealand registered their first win of the tournament as they inflicted a nine-wicket defeat on Bangladesh in a rain-curtailed ICC Women’s World Cup match on Monday. New Zealand bowlers first restricted Bangladesh to 140 for 8 after a long rain delay before Suzie Bates hit a strokeful unbeaten half-century to power the hosts
5:15 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — In a week in which speed has been the big story at the NFL scouting combine, two defensive backs put an exclamation point on the affair Sunday. Baylor cornerback Kalon Barnes and Texas-San Antonio cornerback Tariq Woolen ran two of the fastest 40-yard dash times in the combine’s history. Barnes’
12:47 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN As Nikola Jokic sat at the podium for his postgame news conference, his Denver Nuggets teammate Bones Hyland briefly popped in the room to let his thoughts be known. “MVP! MVP! MVP!” The comments came after the reigning MVP put up an excellent case for why he should get another
12:53 AM ET LAFC faced an uphill battle, trailing 1-0 on the second bicycle kick goal in two weeks by the Portland Timbers‘ Yimmi Chara, and with star forward Carlos Vela subbed out as a precaution for an injury to open the second half. The home side was gifted a red card for Portland, however,
11:38 PM GMT There are now just three unbeaten teams in Super Rugby Pacific, with the Crusaders, Brumbies and Reds sitting in first, second and third respectively after three rounds of the tournament. Elsewhere in Round 3, there was an historic first win for Fijian Drua, while the Blues and Hurricanes also picked up victories.
8:23 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Alex Bowman beat NASCAR champion Kyle Larson in a door-to-door overtime battle at Las Vegas Motor Speedway that sent Hendrick Motorsports to victory lane for the second consecutive week. The win Sunday was the first of the year for Bowman and seventh of his career. It was
8:58 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan For the second straight PGA Tour event, Bryson DeChambeau has withdrawn after
6:49 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Scottie Scheffler played the kind of golf that wins a traditional U.S. Open, and that’s what the Arnold Palmer Invitational felt like Sunday at Bay Hill. In another final round that featured some of the toughest scoring conditions in four decades, Scheffler made key putts to save
8:02 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Retief Goosen holed out for eagle from a greenside bunker on the short par-4 first hole, birdied the next two, and cruised to an 8-under 63 and a four-stroke victory Sunday in the Hoag Classic. A stroke behind fellow South African star Ernie Els entering the
8:10 PM ET ESPN News Services ST. PAUL, Minn. — Jason Robertson had his second hat trick of the weekend and the Dallas Stars outlasted the Minnesota Wild 6-3 on Sunday to take over the top wild-card position in the Western Conference. Robertson, a 22-year-old American left wing who has cemented his place on Dallas’
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