ESPN News Services Jan 11, 2024, 11:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions OKLAHOMA CITY — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 31 points, Josh Giddey had a triple-double and the Oklahoma City Thunder rolled past the Portland Trail Blazers 139-77 on Thursday night, a 62-point victory that matched the fifth-largest rout in NBA history. “It was almost like
ESPN News Services Jan 11, 2024, 08:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HONOLULU — Gary Woodland had low expectations at this week’s Sony Open. The former U.S. Open champion had brain surgery on Sept. 18 to remove a tumor that had been causing bizarre and frightening spells of fear and anxiety centered on death. He
Associated Press Jan 11, 2024, 11:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PITTSBURGH — Elias Pettersson scored on a breakaway in overtime, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Thursday night. Pettersson took a lead pass from Filip Hronek and beat Tristan Jarry for his 22nd goal of the season and second of
Dan Murphy, ESPN Staff WriterJan 11, 2024, 08:26 PM ET Close Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame Open Extended Reactions The NCAA on Thursday announced significant penalties for the Florida State football team — including two years’ probation and disassociating with its NIL collective for one
Jan 11, 2024, 11:29 PM Open Extended Reactions British and Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell is confident the Wallabies will overcome their woes and “get it right” in time for the 2025 tour which he believes will be “huge” for Australian sport. Englishman Farrell, who’s overseen Ireland’s path to the top of world rugby, was
Mike Coppinger, ESPNJan 11, 2024, 09:38 PM ET Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., the son of the legendary Mexican boxer, was set to be released from jail Thursday night and entered into a residential treatment program in Los Angeles, his attorney, Guadalupe Valencia, told ESPN. He’s expected to remain in the program until his next court
Jeff Passan, ESPNJan 11, 2024, 09:07 PM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Open Extended Reactions Right-hander Marcus Stroman and the New York Yankees are in agreement on a two-year, $37 million contract that includes a vesting player option, sources told ESPN,
Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterJan 11, 2024, 08:48 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 Juan Soto and the New York Yankees came to terms on a record-setting, $31 million salary for the
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterJan 11, 2024, 08:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Brandon Moreno has a new opponent in his return to his home country. The former two-time UFC flyweight champion will fight Brandon Royval in the main event of UFC Mexico City on Feb. 24, sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. Amir Albazi,
Rob Dawson, CorrespondentJan 11, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Out-of-favour Manchester United forward Jadon Sancho has returned to Borussia Dortmund on loan, it was announced on Thursday. Sancho signed from Dortmund in a £73 million ($93m) deal in 2021, but hasn’t played for United since August following a public bust-up with manager Erik
Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterJan 11, 2024, 11:22 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Open Extended Reactions On the first day of his retirement in the wake of a legendary coaching career, Nick Saban was still thinking team first. He wasn’t playing golf, planning a
Mike Reiss, ESPN Staff WriterJan 11, 2024, 01:32 PM ET Close Mike Reiss is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the New England Patriots. Reiss has covered the Patriots since 1997 and joined ESPN in 2009. In 2019, he was named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. You can
Associated Press Jan 11, 2024, 05:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — The BNP Paribas Open is increasing its total prize money by over $1.4 million to $19 million for the two-week combined men’s and women’s tournament in the Southern California desert. Over $1 million in additional prize money will be added
Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Jan 11, 2024, 06:04 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández wants to dominate Real Madrid in Sunday’s Spanish Supercopa final after his side beat Osasuna 2-0 in Thursday’s second semifinal in Saudi Arabia. Second-half strikes from Robert Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal extended Barça’s stay in Riyadh and set
Open Extended Reactions The 2024 PGA Tour season continues this week with the Sony Open at the Waialae Country Club in Hawai’i. There’s a $8.3 million purse and $1.494 million first-place prize. Si Woo Kim won the event last year, edging Hayden Buckley by 1 stroke. Now, he’s trying to become the first back-to-back winner
Getty Images Great Britain won gold in the men’s team pursuit gold for the first time in nine years at the European Championships in the Netherlands. Dan Bigham, Ethan Hayter, Ethan Vernon and Charlie Tanfield edged out world champions Denmark by 1.154 seconds to win in three minutes 45.218 seconds. The British women’s team, the
Jan 11, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The 2024 NBA trade deadline is Feb. 8, and expect to see plenty of movement as teams look to shake up their rosters. Which moves will impact the landscape of the NBA heading into the 2024 playoffs? And what deals will affect teams looking to rebuild
The T20 World Cup 2024 will be starting in less than five months from now. Team India will be facing Afghanistan in a three-match T20I series starting January 11, which will be the Rohit Sharma-led side’s last international assignment in the shortest format before the T20 mega event in USA and West Indies. As the