8:00 AM ET With football conferences now allowed to eschew divisions in the name of a “permanent rivals, heavily rotated schedules and the top two teams in the conference championship game” era, the ultimate parity of the ACC Coastal division could soon be a thing of the past. Overall, this shift is welcome: The heavy
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The 2022 U.S Open Championship returns to Brookline Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, for the first time since 1988, with a loaded field of 156 golfers vying for the top 60 spots to advance. 2011 U.S. Open winner Rory McIlroy enters the weekend as the favorite after winning the RBC
Five-time Olympic gold medallist Laura Kenny has been named in Team England’s 35-strong squad for the Commonwealth Games. Matt Walls, the Omnium champion at Tokyo 2020, and Olympic silver medallist and world omnium champion Ethan Hayter are also included. Double Paralympic champion Steve Bate and Paralympic silver medallist Sophie Unwin are included. Evie Richards, a
10:21 AM BST Ireland coach Andy Farrell has named five uncapped players in an extended 40-man squad for their three-test tour of New Zealand that will gauge both nations’ progress ahead of next year’s Rugby World Cup. Exciting young lock Joe McCarthy has been included along with Leinster teammates, centre Ciaran Frawley and winger Jimmy
8:00 AM ET DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche are no overnight success. Joe Sakic knows that better than anyone. He was Colorado’s captain when the franchise last won a Stanley Cup, in 2001. Now, 21 years later, Sakic is the architect behind the Avalanche’s return to a Final, this one opening Wednesday against the Tampa
Jun 11, 2022 Kamaru Usman will defend his UFC welterweight title against Leon Edwards in the main event of UFC 278 on Aug. 20 in Salt Lake City, Utah, it was announced Saturday during the UFC 275 broadcast. Usman vs. Edwards was the expected title matchup, and the UFC was just waiting on Usman to
7:43 AM ET BROOKLINE, Mass. — We interrupt the ongoing drama of who has left the PGA Tour — and who might still be going to the LIV Golf Invitational Series — for the 122nd U.S. Open, the third major championship of the season. With two golf worlds colliding at The Country Club this week,
7:38 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Artur Beterbiev and Joe Smith Jr. meet on Saturday to unify three of the four major light heavyweight titles in the main event of a Top Rank card at the Hulu Theater inside Madison Square Garden in New York (ESPN/ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET, with prelims on ESPN+ at 6:30
7:58 AM ET Anitta, one of the hottest female pop stars in the world, posted a video on her Instagram story the morning of April 3. In the clip, Anitta was in a bed, still wearing the same outfit she wore the night before at her exclusive birthday party in Las Vegas. Talking into her
8:28 AM ET Paul Pogba has completed his return to Juventus on a free transfer after leaving Manchester United, sources have told ESPN. The 29-year-old has signed a four-year deal at Juventus as he moves to the club for the second time in his career — he previously joined the Italian giants in 2012 from
6:20 AM ET WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury said he is willing to return to the ring for a potential unification bout against Anthony Joshua or Oleksandr Usyk but said organisers would have to dig out £500 million to tempt him out of “retirement.” Fury knocked out Dillian Whyte in April to retain his title
4:57 AM ET A recharged Tai Tuivasa says he is ready to upset the world again and earn a crack at the UFC heavyweight title in the process when he heads to France to fight the division’s No. 1 contender Ciryl Gane in September. The UFC Fight Night Paris showdown between the big-swinging duo was
6:35 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Fernando Tatis Jr.’s surgically repaired left wrist hasn’t progressed to the point where the electrifying All-Star shortstop can start swinging a bat, general manager A.J. Preller said Tuesday. Tatis had a three-month follow-up exam in Arizona on Monday with Dr. Donald Sheridan, who operated on his broken
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The 2022 Stanley Cup Final is set to begin Wednesday night in Denver, and it promises to be one of the best matchups in recent memory. The Tampa Bay Lightning are looking to become the first team to three-peat since the New York Islanders won four in a row from
6:44 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Hawks guard Bogdan Bogdanovic is recovering from surgery on his right patella tendon after being hampered by knee inflammation this past season. The Hawks announced Tuesday that Bogdanovic is expected to make a full recovery before the start of the 2022-23 season. Bogdanovic missed 19 games this past
6:00 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — On his first day back with the Baltimore Ravens on Tuesday, quarterback Lamar Jackson rolled to his right and flicked a 30-yard pass downfield to tight end Mark Andrews while on the run. Jackson is a one-of-a-kind playmaker, and his contract situation is unprecedented. He is one of
WTC: England defeated New Zealand by 5 wickets in the second Test in Nottingham.© AFP England on Tuesday won their first Test series since January 2021 after beating New Zealand by 5 wickets in the second Test of the three-match series at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. The hosts now lead the series 2-0 ahead of
Alfa Romeo driver Valtteri Bottas has warned ‘porpoising’ in Formula 1 is “getting quite serious” and believes it could cause injuries to drivers. New designs to the cars for 2022 cause bouncing as they travel down straights. Lewis Hamilton said after Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix he was “worried” about the Canadian Grand Prix because of