Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterJul 31, 2024, 09:54 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Open Extended Reactions SAN DIEGO — Jack Flaherty joined his new team on Wednesday and downplayed concerns surrounding a back issue
Brian Windhorst, ESPN Senior WriterJul 31, 2024, 08:38 PM ET Close ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Open Extended Reactions LILLE, France — Team USA is through to Tuesday’s Olympic basketball quarterfinals after a 103-86 victory over South Sudan secured that berth on Wednesday. The game
The IPL team owners were divided in their opinions on issues ranging from the mega auction to the impact substitute player rule when they met with the BCCI officials here on Wednesday. With the mega auction slated to be held ahead of the 18th edition of the T20 league next year, the BCCI had called
Jeff Kassouf Jul 31, 2024, 04:25 PM ET Time is not the enemy, U.S. women’s national team head coach Emma Hayes has consistently said. Time is simply a circumstance — one she cannot fight against. The new coach had just four friendly matches and less than two months on the sidelines with the USWNT to
Rich Cimini, ESPN Staff WriterJul 31, 2024, 03:19 PM ET Close Rich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New York Jets and the NFL at ESPN. Rich has covered the Jets for over 30 years, joining ESPN in 2010. Rich also hosts the Flight Deck podcast. He previously was a beat writer for
Brian Windhorst, ESPN Senior WriterJul 31, 2024, 05:02 PM ET Close ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Open Extended Reactions LILLE, France — Worrying about which superstar player might not play on a given night isn’t Team USA’s problem, it might end up the trademark. This
ESPN News Services Jul 31, 2024, 01:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Iga Swiatek dropped to her knees on the court and clutched at her midsection after getting hit by a ball during a point in the Paris Olympics singles quarterfinals Wednesday, but it was her opponent, Danielle Collins of the United States, who stopped
ESPN News Services Jul 31, 2024, 02:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Jackson Holliday returned to the Baltimore Orioles in grand style. Hours after being officially recalled from the minors, Holliday belted a towering grand slam in the fifth inning of Wednesday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays. It was the first career major league
Brian Windhorst, ESPN Senior WriterJul 31, 2024, 02:53 PM ET Close ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Open Extended Reactions LILLE, France — Jayson Tatum went from out of the rotation to a starter for Team USA. Coach Steve Kerr promised Tatum would play Wednesday against
Associated Press Jul 31, 2024, 03:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Rafael Nadal’s Paris Games — and, almost certainly, his Olympic career — ended Wednesday night when he and Carlos Alcaraz were eliminated in the men’s doubles quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-4 loss to the fourth-seeded American duo of Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram. The
Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 31, 2024, 03:00 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions Most of the world’s best golfers spent the past four months playing in the four most famous tournaments in the world — the Masters,
Goals from Trinity Rodman and Korbin Albert gave the U.S. women’s national team a 2-1 win over Australia in Marseille on Wednesday to secure first place in Group B at the Olympic Games and set up a quarterfinal against Japan in Paris on Saturday. The U.S. went into the game with a place in the
David Newton, ESPN Staff WriterJul 31, 2024, 06:00 AM ET Close David Newton is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Carolina Panthers. Newton began covering Carolina in 1995 and came to ESPN in 2006 as a NASCAR reporter before joining NFL Nation in 2013. You can follow Newton on Twitter at @DNewtonespn. Open
Whether to have a mega auction for ahead of the upcoming season was the major point of contention in the meeting between the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the 10 franchises of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The meeting of the IPL teams’ owners with the BCCI at the latter’s headquarters in
Associated Press Jul 31, 2024, 12:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former Carolina Hurricanes center Evgeny Kuznetsov will return to Russia to continue his career, signing a four-year contract with SKA Saint Petersburg, the Kontinental Hockey League announced Wednesday. Kuznetsov’s contract with the Hurricanes was terminated two weeks ago by mutual agreement after he cleared
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterJul 31, 2024, 01:18 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware denied a preliminary approval for settlement in the UFC antitrust lawsuit Tuesday, an agreement that would have seen the UFC pay out
Field Level Media Jul 31, 2024, 10:45 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Montreal Canadiens defenseman Kaiden Guhle signed a six-year, $33.3 million contract extension on Wednesday. The deal begins in the 2025-26 season for Guhle, who becomes the third defenseman signed to a new contract by the Canadiens in the past two days. Arber Xhekaj
Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 31, 2024, 10:32 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions Keegan Bradley has been named the fourth captain’s assistant for the U.S. team at the upcoming Presidents Cup, the PGA Tour announced Wednesday. Bradley,