1:48 PM ET Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star forward Karl-Anthony Towns is out indefinitely with a right calf strain, the team announced Tuesday. Sources told ESPN that Towns is expected to miss four to six weeks with the injury. After initial fears of a significant injury when he left Monday night’s 142-127 loss to Washington in the
4:06 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Jose Abreu has spent his entire nine-year MLB career with the Chicago White Sox, but Astros owner Jim Crane isn’t worried about how the newly signed first baseman will fit in with his teammates in Houston. “Jose pulled out his phone last night and had the phone numbers
3:44 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Tyson Fury’s retirement claim lasted just a few months, and as he prepares for a heavyweight title defense vs. Derek Chisora on Saturday in London (12 p.m. ET, ESPN+), the “Gypsy King” told ESPN he’ll fight on “as long as the body will let me.” “I’m pretty f—ed up with
2:15 PM ET Golf fans will have to wait a few more weeks to watch Tiger Woods play again. The 15-time major champion was forced to pull out of this week’s Hero World Challenge, a tournament he hosts in the Bahamas, because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot. Woods said doctors told him that
2:10 PM ET Nate Diaz‘s time with the UFC is officially over. At least for now. The longtime UFC fighter and one of the biggest stars in MMA has officially been removed from the UFC roster, promotion officials confirmed with ESPN on Tuesday. MMA Fighting was the first to report the news. The final fight
1:21 PM ET British tennis player Emma Raducanu was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on Tuesday, a little more than a year after she shocked the sporting world when she became the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam. The then-18-year-old Raducanu catapulted her career to new heights when
12:57 PM ET Professional Fighters League co-founder Donn Davis says he believes a fight between two-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison and MMA legend Cris “Cyborg” Justino is actually more likely to happen in 2023 following Harrison’s stunning upset loss to Larissa Pacheco last week in the PFL lightweight finals. Harrison (15-1) was set to capture
12:51 PM ET United States coach Gregg Berhalter has made two changes for Tuesday’s decisive World Cup Group B match against Iran in Qatar. After being replaced by Haji Wright for Friday’s 0-0 draw with England, Josh Sargent returns to the lineup to lead the attack, while there is a first World Cup start for
12:06 PM ET The Dallas Stars have signed forward Roope Hintz to an eight-year contract extension through the 2030-31 season with an average annual value of $8.45 million. Hintz, 26, is in his fifth NHL season. He has 194 points in 261 career games, including 88 goals. He has 24 points in 22 games this
11:37 AM ET Tiger Woods on Tuesday said he had two additional surgeries this year and that the plantar fasciitis in his right foot that will prevent him from playing this week is related to his ongoing recovery from serious injuries suffered in a car wreck outside Los Angeles in February 2021. Woods, 46, declined
11:15 AM ET Associated Press U.S. Davis Cup team coaches Mardy Fish and Bob Bryan were fined $10,000 apiece and handed bans of four months after promoting a gambling operator via social media. The London-based International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced the punishments Tuesday, saying that Fish and Bryan cooperated fully with its investigation and
7:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors There are some trends found around the quarter mark of the NHL season that famously stick around. For example, the oft-cited stat that teams in playoff positions on Thanksgiving have made the playoffs 77% of the time in the salary-cap era (since 2005-06). But for every harbinger of things to
6:30 AM ET NFL Nation reporters Welcome to Week 13 of the NFL regular season — we are now two-thirds of the way through. Our power panel — a group of more than 80 writers, editors and TV personalities — has evaluated how teams are stacking up through 12 weeks. After the Jacksonville Jaguars took
8:00 AM ET Brian Windhorst and a team of ESPN’s Insiders sort out life and the news from in and around the NBA world. One of the most famous hands in televised poker history took place in 2007 on a show called “High Stakes Poker,” which featured high-end cash games. In the heat of play,
File image of BCCI president Roger Binny© AFP BCCI ethics officer Vineet Saran has served a conflict of interest notice to board president Roger Binny. PTI has learnt that Saran has asked Binny to file a written response by December 20 against the conflict of interest allegations levelled against him. The complainant, Sanjeev Gupta, has
7:00 AM ET There isn’t really such thing as a perfect offseason. A front office can dream of all the right moves to fill holes with the players at the top of its most wanted list. You might even have an owner with an open checkbook. But things rarely line up in exactly the right
7:00 AM ET This penultimate ranking could arguably be the most compelling, revealing regular-season College Football Playoff top 25. Period. If there is one upset in this weekend’s conference championship games — most realistically if TCU loses to Kansas State in the Big 12 championship or USC loses to Utah in the Pac-12 title game
Fernando Alonso was “very impressive” on his first outing for Aston Martin, team principal Mike Krack says. The two-time champion, 41, had a day’s testing for Aston Martin in Abu Dhabi last week to prepare for his move from Alpine for the start of next season. Krack said Alonso was immediately fast, adding “the efficiency