Month: October 2024

Tim MacMahon, ESPN Staff WriterOct 11, 2024, 12:14 AM ET Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Open Extended Reactions DALLAS — The butterflies fluttered in Klay Thompson‘s stomach for days before Thursday night’s preseason game, his first NBA appearance that wasn’t
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Associated Press Oct 10, 2024, 11:09 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Devils coach Sheldon Keefe faced a familiar foe Thursday night. Keefe squared off against his former team when the Devils opened their home schedule against the Toronto Maple Leafs. New Jersey came out on the short end of the
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Associated Press Oct 10, 2024, 09:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DETROIT — Pinch-hitter David Fry had a go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh inning, then bunted home an insurance run in the ninth to help the Cleveland Guardians force a decisive Game 5 against the Detroit Tigers in their AL Division Series with a
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Associated Press Oct 10, 2024, 10:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions OTTAWA, Ontario — Florida‘s first loss of the season might have been costly, with captain Aleksander Barkov leaving with 1:10 remaining after crashing into the end boards and getting hurt. Barkov was trying to prevent an empty-net goal when he got hurt, giving chase
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Shams Charania, ESPNOct 10, 2024, 10:34 AM ET Open Extended Reactions After 15 NBA seasons, Danny Green says he is retiring from basketball. Green, who announced his retirement on his podcast Thursday, is one of four players in NBA history to win championships with three different teams (2014 with the Spurs, 2019 with the Raptors,
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Associated Press Oct 10, 2024, 09:58 PM ET Open Extended Reactions IVINS, Utah — Adam Svensson made a 35-foot eagle putt he thought he had missed and closed with a birdie from the bunker for a career-best 11-under 60, giving him a two-shot lead Thursday in the Black Desert Championship as the PGA Tour returned
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ESPN News Services Oct 10, 2024, 01:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Oklahoma leading wide receiver Deion Burks is not expected to play against No. 1 Texas, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Thursday. Burks tops the No. 18 Sooners in receptions (26) and yards (201) this season. He’d been listed as questionable and has
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DJ Bien-Aime, ESPNOct 10, 2024, 06:38 PM ET Close DJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN in July of 2022 after covering the New York Jets. He’s a former athlete who finished his college career at Louisville. You can catch DJ on ESPN Radio on his show, “Talkin’ Texans.” Open Extended
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Andreas Hale, ESPNOct 10, 2024, 05:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Conor McGregor has already started mapping out his return to the UFC in 2025. After being forced out of his June matchup with Michael Chandler because of an injured toe, the former two-division champion has been chomping at the bit for his opportunity to
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Andreas Hale, ESPNOct 10, 2024, 03:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LAS VEGAS — Even at age 58, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson isn’t expecting to work overtime in a boxing ring. Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs) will face Jake Paul (10-1, 7 KOs) on Nov. 15 in his first professional boxing match in nearly two
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Jake Trotter, ESPN Senior WriterOct 10, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Jake Trotter covers college football for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown (Ohio) Journal newspapers. You can follow him @Jake_Trotter. Open Extended Reactions STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The night before last year’s Peach
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Jeff Passan, ESPNOct 10, 2024, 12:29 PM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Open Extended Reactions The Minnesota Twins announced Thursday that they are for sale, potentially ending one of the longest-tenured ownerships in Major League Baseball. The Pohlad family, which bought
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