1:19 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Former major league outfielder Yasiel Puig has decided to withdraw his agreement to plead guilty to a charge of lying to federal agents investigating an illegal gambling operation. Puig is changing his plea to not guilty because of “significant new evidence,” according to a statement Wednesday from
10:12 PM ET Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mitchell Marner extended his career-long point streak to 18 games on Wednesday while tying a franchise record. The winger scored an empty-net goal late in the third period of Toronto’s 3-1 win over the San Jose Sharks to continue his run. It’s the longest active streak in the
10:06 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN The last remaining obstacle to expanding the College Football Playoff to 12 teams in the 2024 and 2025 seasons has been cleared. A source told ESPN on Wednesday night that the Rose Bowl has agreed to terms that will pave the way for the College Football Playoff to expand in
7:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Just one year and one day ago, the wildest 24 hours in the history of baseball free agency unfolded. With the inevitability of a lockout by the league placing an artificial deadline
7:27 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron Rodgers is playing Sunday against the Chicago Bears despite his latest injury, this one to his ribs, and the Green Bay Packers quarterback doesn’t plan on that changing the rest of the season. Except if they’re out of playoff contention. At 4-8 and teetering on the verge
Marnus Labuschagne reacts after facing Jason Holder’s delivery in the first Test.© Twitter Right-handed batter Marnus Labuschagne was at his best on the opening day of the first Test against West Indies and he registered his 8th Test ton. His unbeaten knock of 154 knock helped Australia end Day 1 at 293/2, with the hosts
5:59 PM ET DOHA, Qatar — The conceit was simple, ahead of Argentina‘s final group game against Poland: What if you simply watched one player for 90 minutes? And that player, one of the undisputed GOATs, might well be playing his last World Cup game ever. So, pen and pad in hand, I did what
6:38 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Kings put goaltender Cal Petersen on waivers Wednesday, a surprising move for a player once considered the successor in net to two-time Stanley Cup winner Jonathan Quick. Petersen, 28, went on waivers the day after allowing four goals on 16 shots in relief of
7:00 AM ET Nearly a month into the MLB offseason, we’re still awaiting the first big splash. While we wait for the movement to pick up entering next week’s winter meetings in San Diego, we asked a panel of experts to weigh in on what they think the rest of the offseason will bring. Where
11:15 PM ET UAB is finalizing the hire of former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer as the Blazers’ new football coach and is planning to officially introduce him later Wednesday, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Dilfer, 50, the head coach at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, is a former standout quarterback at Fresno State, who graduated
Nov 21, 2022 Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson meets Kevin Holland in the welterweight main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Orlando, Florida. The event is the UFC’s annual “Fight Like Hell” Night, dedicated to the Stuart Scott Memorial Cancer Research Fund, established in memory of the ESPN personality who died of cancer in 2015.
Charith Asalanka smashed an unbeaten 83 as Sri Lanka pulled off a record chase of 314 to edge out Afghanistan by four wickets in the third one-day international and end the series level at 1-1 on Wednesday. Afghanistan opener Ibrahim Zadran‘s record 162 — the highest individual score for the Afghans — went in vain
10:01 AM ET The LIV Golf League will play tournaments in Australia, Mexico, Singapore and Spain as part of its 14-event schedule in 2023. LIV Golf announced Wednesday that it will stage events at Mayakoba’s El Camaleon Golf Course (Feb. 24-26), Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore (April 28-30) and Real Club Valderrama in Spain (June
Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin has died aged 51 after a collision with a truck while training near Vicenza on Wednesday. He became the first rider to win the Ardennes Classics treble in a highlight 2004 season, with victory in the Amstel Gold Race, La Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege. His career spanned three decades before he
4:00 AM ET DOHA, Qatar — It was a night of gut-wrenching, intestine-curdling disappointment for Iran. That’s what happens when you exit a FIFA World Cup. And no, it really doesn’t matter if you bow out after outplaying the opposition or after throwing up a stinker, after a tight edge-of-seat affair or after being blown
8:00 AM ET EVAN MOBLEY CROUCHES his thin frame into a defensive stance on the perimeter, a place few 7-footers have ever been as comfortable as the Cleveland Cavaliers‘ 21-year-old franchise cornerstone. It’s midway through the first quarter of the Cavs’ season opener, and on this play, Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam gets a step
7:00 AM ET Inspirational thought of the week: “I know where I’d go.”“Where?”“I’d go to Akron. I’d go there with a pretty woman. A strange woman. A quiet woman. I wouldn’t even want to know her name. Where I would be just ‘Mr. Smith’ and I would send out for cold beer. Then I would
9:10 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Former top-10 professional tennis player Fernando Verdasco accepted a voluntary provisional doping suspension of two months after testing positive for a medication for ADHD, the International Tennis Integrity Agency announced Wednesday. Verdasco, who turned 39 this month, said he was taking methylphenidate as medication prescribed by his doctor