7:32 PM ET Associated Press RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Mateo Fuenmayor of Colombia opened with a 6-under 66 on Thursday to take a 1-shot lead in the Latin America Amateur Championship. Fuenmayor, a junior at Oregon State, arrived at the Grand Reserve Golf Club having tied for seventh last week in the South American
Month: January 2023
8:01 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Back as a World Series title contender, the Cleveland Guardians are moving forward with upgrades to Progressive Field. The team revealed on Thursday delayed final plans for a “reimagining” of its downtown home, which has aged well since opening in 1994 but is now the 11th oldest ballpark
7:22 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — The home of the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins will be known as the TD Garden through 2045. TD Bank and the building’s owner, Delaware North, announced a 20-year extension for the arena naming rights on Thursday. The agreement, which began in 2005, had been set to expire
7:21 PM ET The electronic strike zone will be used in all 30 Class AAA parks in 2023, sources told ESPN, seemingly another significant step toward the implementation of the technology at the big-league level in the near future. The Automatic Balls and Strikes system, commonly referred to as ABS, will be deployed in two
6:05 PM ET Kevin Harvick announced on Thursday that 2023 would be his final full-time season in NASCAR. Logan Riely/Getty Images If Kevin Harvick had announced his retirement on Jan. 12, 2002 instead of Jan. 12, 2023, he would have already had a plenty strong-enough case for the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Thankfully, he didn’t then.
7:01 AM ET TORONTO — Matt Murray and Ilya Samsonov present as an ideal odd couple. A classic yin-and-yang, if you will. The Toronto Maple Leafs have just wrapped up practice and their goaltenders sit side by side at the front of the room in companionable conversation. Murray then rapidly becomes focused on removing and
5:24 PM ET Clemson fired offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter, the school announced on Thursday, and will hire TCU offensive coordinator Garrett Riley, sources told ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg and Chris Low. Streeter served just one season as the Tigers’ full-time playcaller, though he’d been with Clemson as an assistant coach since 2015, and he played quarterback
4:45 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — The International Tennis Federation is ending its Davis Cup partnership with the private investment group fronted by former Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, which helped revamp the storied competition in 2018. The ITF signed a 25-year partnership with Kosmos Tennis in 2018, when a new Davis Cup format
5:36 PM ET Joao Felix was sent off on his Chelsea debut Thursday as Fulham beat the Blues 2-1 at Craven Cottage to heap more pressure on Graham Potter. Willian opened the scoring against his former club on 25 minutes with a deflected shot from inside the box before Kalidou Koulibaly equalised two minutes after
4:45 PM ET A suspended MMA coach at the center of an ongoing betting scandal in the UFC has acted as an agent for an offshore bookmaking operation for years, multiple sources who placed bets with him told ESPN. James Krause, 36, has worked as an agent — the term for a middleman between offshore
7:04 AM ET LEBRON JAMES HAS shown no signs of slowing down as he rapidly approaches the NBA’s all-time scoring record long held by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It seems like a safe bet that James, who recently celebrated his 38th birthday, will become the first player to break the 40,000-point barrier. He’s averaging 29.1 points per
Jan 9, 2023 Nassourdine Imavov meets short-notice replacement Sean Strickland in the main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas. The fights at the UFC Apex are on ESPN+, with the 7 p.m. ET main card preceded by prelims at 4 p.m. Both fighters typically compete at middleweight — Strickland is No.
7:00 AM ET Dan OrlovskyESPN When the NFL playoffs for the 2022 season kick off Saturday, we will see some of the league’s best talent under center. Eleven of the top 15 finishers in Total QBR made the field. Eight of the 14 playoff teams’ projected starters were first-round picks (along with two of the
1:57 PM GMT Flanker Tom Curry has been ruled out of England’s first two Six Nations games after suffering a hamstring tear in Sale Sharks’ Premiership win over Harlequins on Sunday. Curry, who has won 45 caps and captained England for the first time in last year’s Six Nations, will miss the matches against Scotland
1:25 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kyle Larson will attempt to race the Indianapolis 500 next year with McLaren Racing in a joint effort with NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick. The surprise announcement Thursday by McLaren and Hendrick at last gives Larson a path into his dream race. It also means he will
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is likely to reveal the names of five franchises which will feature in the inaugural edition of Women’s Indian Premier League (IPL) and the cities they will operate from on January 25, reported ESPNCricinfo on Thursday. The financial bids of these franchises, currently sealed in envelopes
7:00 AM ET Before free agency started, agents and executives around the league suspected that there would be plenty of spending with a fresh new CBA and the sport’s revenue spigot back at full blast. They (and I) understated that effect, to say the least, in our pre-hot stove calculations as it became clear around
10:22 AM ET CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears named Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren as their president and CEO on Thursday. Warren will replace outgoing president and CEO Ted Phillips, who announced his retirement last September following the 2022 season. “Kevin is a man of integrity, respect and excellence, all of which are critical core
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