6:06 PM ET In another edition of The Match, football fans will merge with golf fans Wednesday in Las Vegas to see NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers put aside their personal competition with each other to team up against Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. The 12-hole exhibition (6:30 p.m. ET on TNT) will
5:50 PM ET GLASGOW, Scotland — Ukraine are 90 minutes away from the World Cup. For a country that is fighting for its very existence following Russia’s invasion in February, to even think about the insignificance of qualifying for a football tournament is difficult to comprehend, but Ukraine’s 3-1 win against Scotland in their World
10:14 PM ET Tim Tszyu is a step closer to a unified mega-fight with Jermell Charlo after the WBO ordered the American to defend his belt against the undefeated Australian. Tszyu has been the WBO’s No.1 mandatory challenger at super-welterweight for more than a year, prompting the sanctioning body to intervene following Charlo’s victory over
4:20 PM ET Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Jean Segura will need surgery to repair a fractured right finger and will be sidelined approximately 10 to 12 weeks, manager Joe Girardi said Wednesday. The Phillies also scratched Bryce Harper from their lineup Wednesday because of right firearm soreness. Alec Bohm replaced Harper at designated hitter for
3:23 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Danny Garcia is ready to chase a title in a third weight class. The former two-division champion has agreed to a deal with Jose Benavidez Jr. in a junior middleweight bout on July 30 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, sources tell ESPN. The PBC on Showtime main event
India’s 2-1 Test series win in Australia in 2020-21 remains one of the major milestones in the country’s cricket history. It was not just about the victory but also the way the Ajinkya Rahane-led Team India made a glorious comeback in that series. After the Virat Kohli-led India lost the first Test, the then India
8:00 AM ET Which team will be this year’s NBA champion? The 2022 Finals features the league’s top two defenses throughout the regular season, but the Golden State Warriors–Boston Celtics clash will focus on some of the most dangerous offensive threats in the game. Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, their Splash Brothers partnership whole again
9:51 AM ET Two-time defending PFL women’s lightweight champion Kayla Harrison will face the toughest challenge of her career when she takes on former Bellator women’s featherweight champion Julia Budd in the main event of PFL 6 on July 1 in Atlanta, officials told ESPN on Wednesday. In the co-main event, former Bellator welterweight champion
8:00 AM ET NEW YORK — The Eastern Conference finals showdown pitting Igor Shesterkin of the New York Rangers against Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning is a matchup between what many believe are the two best goalies in the world. Who’s the best? Shesterkin humbly concedes that it’s not him. At least not
May 31, 2022 Less than 2½ years ago, Jairzinho Rozenstruik was an undefeated UFC heavyweight on the rise. At that same time, Alexander Volkov was on a hot run during which he won seven of eight fights. Since then, both have lost several bouts against the division’s top contenders. They each are coming off a
7:00 AM ET New college football coaches have a distinctively different way to rebuild rosters now, with the transfer portal’s emergence, than ever before. Combining the portal with traditional high school recruiting has afforded coaches more ability to bring in talent left by players who are off to the NFL, graduating or transferring out. Some
7:00 AM ET In December, Bryce Young won the Heisman Trophy. He’ll be back at Alabama this college football season with a good chance to win another. At the Rose Bowl, C.J. Stroud — playing without two future first-round NFL draft picks at receiver — threw for 573 yards and six touchdowns, setting himself up
10:01 AM ET In an homage to its namesake, the cover of the Madden NFL 23 video game will have one person on it — John Madden himself. Madden, the Hall of Fame coach who died Dec. 28, will be on the cover of all three editions of this year’s game, which will be released
7:04 AM ET Associated Press New French Open tournament director Amelie Mauresmo says nine of the 10 night session matches at Roland Garros this year involved men because women’s tennis currently has less appeal. Mauresmo said at a news conference Wednesday that she tried on a daily basis to find a women’s pairing that had
10:08 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN PINE NEEDLES, North Carolina — The U.S. Women’s Open is back at the Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines for a record fourth time with a purse of $10 million — more than double last year’s purse of $4.8 million — and plenty of storylines. Between Michelle
11:37 PM ET Tommy Pham wasn’t quite ready to return to the Cincinnati Reds lineup Tuesday night, even though his much-publicized three-game suspension had ended. The veteran outfielder felt some tightness in his calf during batting practice before the team’s series opener against the Boston Red Sox. As for the rest of him? “Hand is
Ghulam Fatima of Pakistan finished with her career best bowling figures Pakistan’s women’s cricket team beat the Sri Lankan women’s team by 8 wickets in the first ODI at Karachi to make a strong start to the series. The foundation of the win laid by the bowlers as the SL women were bowled out for
4:00 AM ET The 2021 summer transfer window will take some beating, with Lionel Messi moving from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain and Cristiano Ronaldo heading back to Manchester United from Juventus. But already there are a host of top players in Europe who have agreed a move on July 1. 2 Related Clubs across the