7:15 AM ET Despite a 3-3 start, the Colorado Avalanche are one of the favorites to win the Stanley Cup this season. But how did they get here? How did a team that finished dead last in the NHL in 2016-17 become the toast of the league in four years? And how did they do
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7:00 AM ET It’s impossible not to see Torey Krug as Alex Pietrangelo‘s replacement with the St. Louis Blues. He took Pietrangelo’s spot in the team’s defense corps when he signed as a free agent. Krug’s contract was funded with the money that had been earmarked for Pietrangelo, if he and the Blues could have
10:02 AM ET Jake Paul, the Internet personality turned pro boxer, has his next fight set, and this time he’ll be competing against an actual professional fighter. Paul will face former UFC fighter Ben Askren in an eight-round pro boxing match on April 17, Triller co-founder Ryan Kavanaugh told ESPN. The fight will take place
8:30 AM ET One performed heroically on the biggest stage possible. The other put on a historic performance. Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway grabbed the attention of the mixed martial arts world in different ways in the last couple of weeks, but for both the results show in the latest ESPN pound-for-pound rankings. Poirier made
Rishabh Pant poses for a photo with MS Dhoni and his wife.© Instagram Just after helping India to a historic victory against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Rishabh Pant spent some quality time with MS Dhoni and his wife Sakshi. Pant played an unbeaten knock of 89 runs on Day 5 of the fourth Test
Dutch sprinter Dylan Groenewegen received death threats following a crash that left a fellow cyclist with serious head injuries. The 27-year-old Jumbo-Visma rider said police protected him and his family after the messages were mailed to him. “[The] police guarded our door. We could no longer spontaneously leave the house,” Groenewegen said. Fabio Jakobsen spent
8:02 AM ET Davis Love III has been named captain of the U.S. Presidents Cup team for the competition against an International squad for the event that was postponed to 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Love, 56, was a two-time U.S. Ryder Cup captain and will be an assistant to captain Steve Stricker this
7:05 AM ET This story was originally published on Feb. 24, 2020. Jan. 26 is the one-year anniversary of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others. THE WEARY GROUP trudged across the tarmac and onto the team plane at Philadelphia International Airport. Awaiting the Los Angeles Lakers at the
8:11 AM ET As impressive as Tyrrell Hatton‘s victory was in Abu Dhabi, it was an equally disappointing result for Rory McIlroy at the European Tour’s first event of 2021. And it has become a recurring theme for McIlroy, who now has gone 15 months without a victory and seemingly struggles to put four good
7:45 AM ET Nick Kyrgios and Rafael Nadal have both aimed digs at Novak Djokovic with the Australian saying he had a duty to call out the world No. 1 when he “lost his way” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kyrgios called the Serbian’s ill-fated Adria Tour in June “boneheaded” and described Djokovic as a “tool”
2:26 PM ET The response to Inter Miami CF naming Phil Neville as manager on Jan. 18 has been tepid at best since he was first linked with the job on Jan. 6, but the chorus of reactions has been consistent: Neville is only there because he’s the longtime friend and former teammate of Miami
3:01 AM ET It had been more than two years since LeBron James played a game in Cleveland, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Los Angeles Lakers star certainly made up for lost time on Monday, turning in perhaps his greatest performance against his former team. James scored a season-high 46 points in the Lakers’
10:40 PM ET A defamation lawsuit filed against Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Angels by Brian Harkins, the longtime clubhouse attendant who was fired for supplying illegal ball-doctoring substances to pitchers, has been struck down in Orange County Superior Court. Judge Geoffrey T. Glass granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss Harkins’ complaint, stating
12:00 PM ET ALLEN PARK, Mich. – Inside Ford Field toward the end of last season, there was a large white mural with Matthew Stafford on it, his back turned with his left arm raised — index finger pointed in the air. It was a striking image then, what with few fans allowed inside the
9:31 PM ET The NHL has suspended former Arizona Coyotes general manager John Chayka through Dec. 31, 2021, a source confirmed to ESPN. Commissioner Gary Bettman made the ruling Monday and circulated a memo to all teams that stated Chayka engaged in “conduct detrimental to the league and game.” Bettman’s ruling also said Chayka “breached
9:00 PM ET The UFC is finalizing a middleweight contest between former champion Robert Whittaker and Paulo Costa to headline UFC Fight Night on April 17, officials confirmed to ESPN on Monday. The 185-pound contest will take place at a location to be determined. Whittaker (22-5) lost the middleweight championship to Israel Adesanya in October
5:58 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” After sending a letter to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred that suggested delaying spring training “to allow for the COVID-19 situation to improve here,” Cactus League executive director Bridget Binsbacher told
2:06 PM ET Tom Brady‘s father says both he and his wife battled COVID-19 last year, which “stressed out” the star quarterback as he was beginning his first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tom Brady Sr., in an interview Monday with ESPN Radio’s #Greeny, said he was hospitalized for three weeks at one point