6:00 AM ET ATLANTA – The focal point of the Atlanta Falcons‘ offense stood with almost a full circle of media surrounding him Friday afternoon inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Kyle Pitts had just finished up practice and perhaps unknowingly walked into a different role than the tight end had a season ago. With as much change
6:00 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. – At some point soon after next week’s mandatory minicamp, the Carolina Panthers will decide if they are comfortable having Sam Darnold compete with rookie Matt Corral and former XFL star P.J. Walker for the starting quarterback job — or if they need to trade for a another veteran, such
Elisa Longo Borghini won the Women’s Tour by a second after finishing stage six in third place. The Italian went into the concluding stage of the tour sharing the overall lead with Australian Grace Brown after winning stage five. And Longo Borghini claimed the overall victory by sealing third with Brown only managing 12th in
8:00 AM ET BOSTON — Steve Kerr has made a lot of high-pressure, large-stakes decisions during his NBA career. Like that afternoon in 1995 when he got fed up with Michael Jordan in a Chicago Bulls practice and made the choice to throw a forearm and ended up with a black eye. The Golden State
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took his sixth pole position in eight races this season with a scintillating lap at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Leclerc saved the best for last with his final lap, beating Red Bull’s Sergio Perez by 0.282 seconds. Perez beat team-mate Max Verstappen with his final lap, by just 0.065secs. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz
Briton’s Chris Froome has pulled out of the Criterium du Dauphine, revealing he has been “feeling unwell over the last two days”. Froome finished stage six low down the rankings and was five minutes and seven seconds behind winner Valentin Ferron. It left him 76th in the overall standings prior to his withdrawal before the
South Africa pulled off a heist in the first T20I against India as the visitors chased down 212 to go 1-0 up in the five-match series. David Miller and Rassie van der Dussen put on an unbeaten stand of 131 runs for the fourth wicket to take Proteas over the line. South Africa and India
2:07 AM ET AUSTIN, Texas — For a team in dire need of a striker to emerge in the lead up to the World Cup, Jesus Ferreira‘s four-goal performance in the United States men’s national team’s 5-0 win against Grenada on Friday was certainly a welcome development. It took some time to break the deadlock,
8:00 AM ET ESPN staff The 2022 NHL Eastern Conference finals matchup between the Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Rangers has reached Game 6, with the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Lightning holding a 3-2 advantage. The Colorado Avalanche await the winner of the series, which could be the Lightning following Saturday night’s game.
1:43 AM ET Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Walker Buehler will undergo an MRI on Saturday after leaving his start early due to discomfort in his right elbow in a 7-2 loss Friday night to the San Francisco Giants. Buehler said he felt something in the elbow in the last couple of innings of the start
7:49 PM ET ESPN News Services CHICAGO — A day after ordering a two-strike intentional walk that backfired, Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa said he’d do it all over again. In the sixth inning of Thursday’s 11-9 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, La Russa walked right-handed hitting speedster Trea Turner with a
PAK vs WI: Babar Azam scored a fine 77 in the 2nd ODI against the West Indies.© AFP Pakistan captain Babar Azam continued his rich vein of form, becoming the first men’s international cricketer to register nine consecutive fifty-plus scores across all three formats. With his 77-run knock against the West Indies in the second
11:50 PM ET The Golden State Warriors built a dynasty playing a beautiful brand of basketball predicated on movement, passing and creativity. Down 2-1 and desperate for a win on hostile ground in Boston’s TD Garden, the Warriors displayed precious little of that choreography, but managed to eke out a rugged 107-97 win to knot
11:51 PM ET The United States men overcame a slow start with the help of four goals from Jesus Ferreira to earn a comfortable 5-0 win over Grenada on Friday night in its CONCACAF Nations League opener at Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas. Neither Christian Pulisic nor Tyler Adams dressed for the game against 170th-ranked
8:51 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Wyndham Clark closed with an unlikely par save Friday to take a 1-stroke lead over defending champion Rory McIlroy and four other players into the weekend in the RBC Canadian Open. After bogeying Nos. 15 and 16 in windy conditions at St. George’s, Clark got up-and-down from about
8:03 PM ET Associated Press GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Australian rookie Stephanie Kyriacou shot a 6-under 67 on Friday to take the first-round lead in the ShopRite LPGA Classic at Seaview Hotel and Golf Club. The 21-year-old Kyriacou, a two-time winner on the Ladies European Tour, teed off at 7:15 a.m. in the first group
4:24 PM ET Cameron Carter-Vickers was part of a Celtic team that won the league and cup double in 2021-22. Craig Williamson/SNS Group via Getty Images Celtic has acquired defender Cameron Carter-Vickers from Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur, the club announced on Friday. The United States international had spent the previous season with the Bhoys on
6:27 PM ET Golden State Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson has agreed to a four-year deal to become the new head coach of the Charlotte Hornets, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Friday. Atkinson will replace James Borrego, who was fired in April after going 138-163 in his four seasons with the team. The Hornets had