3:46 PM ET ESPN News Services FORT MYERS, Fla. — Team president and CEO Sam Kennedy admits his organization heard lots of displeasure from the fans during the offseason. “Pressure is definitely on the 2023 Boston Red Sox,” Kennedy said Monday at the team’s spring training complex on the first full day of workouts. Following
3:22 PM ET Stephen HolderESPN INDIANAPOLIS — Shane Steichen’s coaching staff is starting to come together. The new Indianapolis Colts head coach is expected to name veteran NFL assistant Jim Bob Cooter as the team’s offensive coordinator, sources told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler on Monday. Cooter, 38, was most recently the Jacksonville Jaguars‘ passing game coordinator.
11:54 AM ET With just one week left to run until the 2023 Major League Soccer season whirs into life, all 29 of the clubs set to compete in the league’s 28th year have unleashed their new kits. Each of the individual 2023 jerseys are inspired by a central theme; a unique kernel of creative
12:09 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — New York Islanders center Mathew Barzal is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury, the team announced Monday, a devastating blow to the Isles’ playoff pursuit. He was injured on a hit from Boston‘s Craig Smith early in a 6-2 loss at the Bruins on Saturday. Barzal appeared to
7:20 AM ET PARIS — IT’S LATE MORNING on a gray winter day just outside the French capital, and Victor Wembanyama hasn’t been awake very long. This makes several people in his life quite happy. The small arena located a little over 2 miles from the Arc de Triomphe that Wembanyama is calling his basketball
Star opener Smriti Mandhana on Monday described the match-winning 87-run knock against Ireland as one of her toughest innings due to the difficult conditions at St George’s Park. Thanks to Mandhana’s career-best knock, India posted 155 for six after opting to bat first in their last group match of the Women’s T20 World Cup. In
8:07 AM ET Mixed martial arts will never experience anything like this year’s NBA trade deadline — when second-round draft picks seemingly turned into Monopoly money — but it’s fun to dream. So, in the spirit of all the drama that unfolded on the hardwood, here are a few trades we’d like to see take
Lance Stroll is to miss this week’s pre-season test after suffering “minor injuries” in a cycling accident. The Canadian’s Aston Martin team have not yet decided how to cover his absence over the three days in Bahrain starting on Thursday. Stroll’s injury means there is a risk he could miss the opening race weekend at
8:15 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN The looming changes to the structure of college football simultaneously highlight the strength of the SEC and Big Ten while exposing the fluidity of the rest of the major-conference landscape. With the Big Ten and SEC preparing to start 16-program versions in 2024 and the 12-team playoff looming the same
Feb 16, 2023 Wales head coach Warren Gatland says he is confident the Six Nations clash with England next week will go ahead despite the threat of a Welsh players’ strike over salary cuts. The build-up to the game has been overshadowed by tension between the Professional Rugby Board (PRB) and the Welsh Rugby Players
9:43 AM GMT Professional Rugby Board (PRB) chair Malcolm Wall has apologised to Welsh players for the “stress and real discomfort” caused by their contract dispute stalemate as the threat of a strike looms over Saturday’s Six Nations clash with England. The build-up to the match has been overshadowed by tension between the PRB and
11:41 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — New Arizona Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon has moved quickly to fill his offensive and defensive coordinator positions. Philadelphia Eagles linebackers coach Nick Rallis will be the Cardinals’ defensive coordinator and Cleveland Browns quarterbacks coach Drew Petzing will be the team’s offensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN. Rallis, 29, worked
6:32 AM ET Manchester United‘s Alejandro Garnacho has reached an agreement in principle to sign a new five-year deal, pending a few final details related to image rights, a source has told ESPN. Garnacho, 18, is out of contract in 2024 but the source said there is a financial consensus for him to extend his
7:00 AM ET Last month, we took a look at persistent organizational holes — those sore spots on different teams that just never quite seem to heal. This is a companion examination to that exercise, in which we look at the flip side: What are the strongest positions for each team on a year-in, year-out
Rohit Sharma won a lot of hearts by sacrificing his own wicket after a terrible mix-up with Cheteshwar Pujara during the second Test match between India and Australia in New Delhi. Pujara, who was playing his 100th Test match, was confused by the India skipper calling for a second run but when it looked like
Honda says it is considering a formal return to Formula 1 to coincide with the new engine regulations that will be introduced in 2026. The company officially pulled out of F1 at the end of 2021, although its engines are still used by the two Red Bull teams and will be called Hondas again in
Britain’s Tom Pidcock slipped from first to seventh on the final day of the Tour of Algarve as Ineos Grenadiers team-mate Dani Martinez won the title. Pidcock won the penultimate stage four to hold the overall lead but his time-trial inexperience showed as he placed 19th in the race against the clock. Colombia’s Martinez finished
7:46 PM ET SALT LAKE CITY — Twenty years into his heralded time in the NBA, LeBron James didn’t mince words when asked about the challenge ahead for the Los Angeles Lakers in order to secure a postseason spot. “It’s 23 of the most important games of my career, for a regular season,” James said