Month: May 2022

5:17 PM ET Trevor Bauer‘s grievance hearing against Major League Baseball will begin May 23, a source told ESPN on Friday, confirming a report from The Athletic. Bauer was handed a 324-game suspension on April 29 for violating MLB’s domestic violence policy, twice the amount of the previous longest suspension since the policy was implemented
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5:09 PM ET Associated Press HELSINKI, Finland — Pierre-Luc Dubois scored twice and led defending champion Canada to a 5-3 victory over Germany in their opening game at the world ice hockey championship on Friday. Cole Sillinger and Dubois scored from the slot in the first period of the Group A game in Helsinki. Germany
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5:20 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN CAMDEN, N.J. — Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey said coach Doc Rivers will return next season for a third year with the franchise. “I just think he’s a great coach,” Morey said during Friday’s exit interviews after the Sixers were eliminated the previous night on their home
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6:16 PM ET ESPN News Services ROME — It was just the type of scrambling, wear-down-the-opponent mentality and shot-making that took Novak Djokovic to within one match of a calendar-year Grand Slam in 2021. A spectacle that was missing for so much of this year when Djokovic didn’t play because he wasn’t vaccinated against the
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9:55 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Pep Guardiola has launched a fierce defence of his Manchester City players after Patrice Evra questioned their character and mentality following the last-gasp Champions League defeat to Real Madrid. City suffered a late collapse at the Bernabeu to miss the chance to reach the final for the second year in
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5:30 PM ET Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel has said Jurgen Klopp generates public support for Liverpool because he is “the master of being the underdog.” Tuchel’s side face Liverpool in Saturday’s FA Cup Final ker’s future is “not the situation you want” on the eve of an FA Cup final against Liverpool on Saturday
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2:50 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Floyd Mayweather’s exhibition event on Saturday in Dubai was postponed following the death of UAE president Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Friday. The UAE’s Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced a three-day suspension of work in all ministries and the private sector, which forced the cancelation of the event.
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2:02 PM ET The NFL schedule got released Thursday night, renewing an anticipation for the next season that, honestly, never quite goes away once the final Super Bowl whistle blows. Here are the five most in-demand games of the season, with the average ticket price per sold ticket (via VividSeats): Unsurprisingly, Russell Wilson‘s highly anticipated
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11:37 AM ET Associated Press GENEVA — The Court of Arbitration for Sport refused to stop the International Boxing Association’s delayed presidential election on Friday, a day after the challenger was ruled ineligible. The court dismissed Dutch boxing federation president Boris van der Vorst’s request for an urgent ruling to block the vote, according to
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10:32 AM ET Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews, Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid and Nashville Predators defenseman Roman Josi have been named the finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award, which honors the NHL’s most outstanding player as voted by members of the NHL Players’ Association. Matthews and McDavid are also finalists, along with New
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11:10 AM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Ramona Shelburne Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving has long had one of Nike’s most popular and profitable signature basketball shoes,
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8:45 PM ET In this week’s NFT roundup, we have appearances by the likes of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Ronald Acuna Jr., as well as Paige Bueckers testing out NFTs through Meta and a new initiative by a pair of USC Trojans. Let’s get into it. Paige Bueckers, Instagram influencer Meta (the company formerly known
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