6:52 PM ET Julio Rodriguez grew up in Loma de Cabrera, a small Dominican town of roughly 20,000 located near the Haitian border. Before him, the only prominent baseball player from there was Rafael Furcal, an All-Star shortstop through the 2000s. Rodriguez looked up to Furcal as a kid. He remembers the parade that the
8:07 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — The Golden State Warriors are pausing all FTX-related promotional assets, the team told ESPN on Monday. The final FTX promotion will be on the Jordan Poole bobblehead given out at Chase Center on Monday night — an item made several months ago before the cryptocurrency exchange firm
5:31 PM ET Associated Press TURIN, Italy — Novak Djokovic beat Stefanos Tsitsipas for the ninth straight time by 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the players’ opening match at the ATP Finals on Monday. Djokovic has beaten Tsitsipas in his third straight tournament following wins in Astana, Kazakhstan, and at the Paris Masters. “All the matches
9:41 AM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Caroline O’Connor didn’t know what her ceiling was when she entered the sports business world, simply because there were so few examples of women who traveled her path. Turns out, she had no limit. The Miami Marlins promoted O’Connor to president of business operations on Monday, making them
9:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN West Virginia has agreed to separate with athletic director Shane Lyons, who has been at the school since 2015. A combination of budget issues and the school’s struggling football program led to a change in direction. The school has not decided on coach Neal Brown’s future, sources told ESPN. Lyons’
9:34 AM ET A former University of Virginia football player suspected of killing three football players and wounding two other students on campus late Sunday night is in custody after a manhunt in Charlottesville, Virginia, police confirmed Monday. During a news conference on Monday, University of Virginia president Jim Ryan said three Cavaliers football players
7:09 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Sitting on the elegant stone steps in the Great Stair Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Donovan McNabb, Michael Vick and Jalen Hurts gathered Tuesday for a conversation on their shared history as Eagles leaders and Black quarterbacks in the NFL. McNabb, the eldest at age 45, recounted a
9:36 AM ET DOHA, Qatar — United States men’s national team coach Gregg Berhalter said that he and his team will continue to push the team’s “Be the Change” message while in Qatar, even as FIFA has told participants not to raise awareness about the host country’s treatment of migrant workers and the LGBTQIA+ community.
12:34 PM ET Columbus Blue Jackets forward Patrik Laine will miss 3-4 weeks with a sprained ankle, the team announced Monday. Laine was hurt during Columbus’ game against the New York Islanders on Saturday. The winger logged over 22 minutes and finished his night even after a tough third-period collision with teammate Cole Sillinger. Both
9:19 AM ET NEW YORK — A well-known MMA coach was sitting up against a locker room wall earlier this year with his fighter and other coaches as the fighter warmed up in preparation for his UFC bout later that evening. There were other fighters and teams in the room as well, a common occurrence
File image of Wasim Akram© Twitter England on Sunday became the first team to hold the 50-over Cricket World Cup and 20-over World Cup at the same time. The Jos Buttler-led side achieved the feat after beating Pakistan in a nervy T20 World Cup final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. After the result, legendary fast
Nov 13, 2022 Just hours after a superfight was booked for the UFC 284 main event, another title fight has been added. Yair Rodriguez will fight Josh Emmett for the interim UFC featherweight title in the co-main event of the Feb. 11 card in Perth, Australia, the UFC announced Saturday night. The UFC is making
9:36 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — All-Star point guard Darius Garland was watching the scoreboard but not his individual statistics on Sunday night. He received a pleasant surprise. Garland poured in a career-high 51 points — 27 of them in the fourth quarter — and made a career-best 10 3-pointers as the Cleveland Cavaliers
12:53 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — After 76ers superstar Joel Embiid scored 42 points to lead them to a win Saturday night at Wells Fargo Center over the Atlanta Hawks, Embiid declared he was simply doing “whatever it takes” to lead his team to victories. Little did anyone realize what Embiid had in store
Nov 13, 2022 NEW YORK — Zhang Weili became China’s first UFC champion in 2019, when she took the strawweight title from Jessica Andrade. On Saturday, she also became China’s second UFC champion. Zhang (23-3) reclaimed her 115-pound championship by submitting Carla Esparza (19-7) in the second round of their strawweight title fight, which co-headlined
Shaheen Afridi injured himself in T20 World Cup final© AFP Pakistan pacer Shaheen Afridi is unlikely to be available for the Test series against England and New Zealand through December-January after he injured his right knee during his side’s ICC T20 World Cup final against England on Sunday. As per ESPNCricinfo, Pakistan side faces another
6:38 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United have been left furious at Cristiano Ronaldo‘s explosive attack on the club and manager Erik ten Hag, sources have told ESPN. United are particularly angry at the timing of Ronaldo’s interview with Piers Morgan, during which he said he “doesn’t respect” Ten Hag, coming just hours after the
7:00 AM ET With the World Series in our rearview mirror — though the champion Astros are surely still reveling in their victory — the 2022 season is all but done, with one final piece left: awards! The winners of MLB’s four major end-of-season awards — Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, Cy