2:17 AM ET Moments after Paul Millsap blocked his shot and stared him down, Donovan Mitchell had the ball on the left wing, a one-point Utah Jazz lead and Millsap standing in his way. Mitchell sized up the Denver Nuggets power forward, dribbled between his legs and drilled a 25-footer before staring at the Denver
7:30 AM ET It is 12.40 a.m. and Thiago Silva is the first Paris Saint-Germain player to get off the bus at the Myriad hotel in Lisbon city centre, for the last time. Unlike in his dreams, though the captain is not holding the Champions League trophy. Instead, he passes to the entrance of the
7:00 AM ET ESPN.com Staff With Major League Baseball teams reaching the midpoint of their seasons and next week’s trade deadline looming ahead on the sports calendar, even little more than a month’s worth of data is starting to take on meaning for general managers weighing decisions about potential moves they can make. Not least
Yuzvendra Chahal announced his engagement to choreographer Dhanshree Verma earlier this month.© Twitter Yuzvendra Chahal, the frontline leg-spinner for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) took to social media on Monday to share a photo where he is seen surrounded by a lot of greenery. “The best place to pose #naturelover,” Chahal captioned the image posted on
8:18 PM ET Associated Press NORTON, Mass. — Dustin Johnson looked as dominant as he ever has, and nothing could stop him on Sunday in The Northern Trust. Not even the weather. Johnson played the final two holes in near darkness after a late storm delay and finished with a birdie for an 8-under 63
8:47 PM ET LSU announced it will close campus Monday because of Hurricane Marco, but a source told ESPN on Sunday that the school’s football team is still set to practice. The Advocate reported that all of LSU’s fall sports teams are scheduled to practice Monday, although the athletic department will continue to monitor weather
9:20 PM ET When Luka Doncic first stepped foot on the AdventHealth Arena court Sunday afternoon, he hoped to prove to himself and the Dallas Mavericks’ medical staff that he could play in Game 4, about 40 hours after spraining his left ankle. Doncic received clearance to play and then proceeded to deliver a historic
6:34 PM ET The Champions League that almost was not — the one played against a backdrop of fear and insecurity (but also solidarity and self-scrutiny) — ended with the European Cup trophy returning where it has been before. Bayern Munich’s 1-0 victory over Paris Saint-Germain marks the German club’s sixth time as champions of
9:15 PM ET Matt Nagy’s phone buzzed Sunday at 2:51 a.m. For an NFL coach, a call at that hour means trouble. Bracing for the worst, Nagy listened as Andre Tucker, the Chicago Bears‘ infection control officer, told him that nine members of the organization had tested positive for COVID-19. Nagy was floored, he told
9:35 PM ET CHICAGO — Like an aging prizefighter, the Chicago Cubs got off the mat just in time on Sunday to salvage a 2-1 win in the final game of their series against their crosstown rivals, the Chicago White Sox. The latter team has become one of the darlings of Major League Baseball, slugging
6:54 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Two months after barely being able to walk while ill with COVID-19, Grigor Dimitrov played a professional tennis match at the Western & Southern Open on Sunday and — while the result was not what was most important — he won. “I said to myself, ‘I’ll give
7:11 PM ET NORTON, Mass. — PGA Tour rookie Scottie Scheffler‘s wild week took another turn Sunday in the final round of The Northern Trust, when his caddie, Scott McGuinness, went down in the ninth fairway with a leg injury and had to be carted off the golf course. Eric Ledbetter, one of the assistant
7:47 PM ET Associated Press DOVER, Del. — Kevin Harvick regained the NASCAR Cup Series victory lead with his seventh, dominating Sunday at Dover International Speedway. A day after Denny Hamlin opened the doubleheader weekend with his sixth win to match Harvick, the Stewart-Haas racing driver one-upped his closest rival to claim NASCAR’s regular-season title.
8:00 AM ET The 2020 NHL playoffs roll on to the conference semifinals beginning on Aug. 22 with the Colorado Avalanche taking on the Dallas Stars. The Golden Knights and Canucks played only twice in the regular season, splitting the contests both staged in December. That seems like decades ago in pandemic time, so this
7:00 PM ET NORTON, Mass. – What the first week of the FedEx Cup playoffs revealed was it is not the best time to be one of the biggest names in golf. With the exception of Dustin Johnson, who a huge lead at The Northern Trust, the first event of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup
5:42 PM ET Pro Bowl safety Earl Thomas was released by the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, which marks the second time in two years his time with an NFL team ended in controversy. Here is Thomas’ tumultuous two-year timeline: Earl Thomas left his former coach Pete Carroll with a parting wish, as he was carted
Japanese ex-Formula 1 driver Takuma Sato won the Indianapolis 500 as Fernando Alonso’s hopes faded not long after half distance. Alonso was 15th when he lost a lap to a car problem with 75 laps to go. The double world champion, who returns to F1 in 2021, finished 21st. Sato was leading from Scott Dixon
3:52 PM ET Associated Press DOVER, Del. — Chase Briscoe called his shot at Dover International Speedway on Sunday and won his sixth Xfinity Series race of the season. Briscoe won five of the first 13 races this season but was winless in the last seven. That streak ended at Dover not long after Briscoe