7:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” With a month of spring training in the books, people inside baseball are starting to form their opinions on players. Who’s real; who’s not. Who changed; who didn’t. Who matters; who doesn’t.
2:46 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard sat down for his post-game availability with his right hand wrapped in ice and sporting a Marvelous Marvin Hagler sweatshirt. Lillard, perhaps the NBA’s biggest boxing fan, looked like he just gone through a 12-round fight Tuesday night. And while it looked like the
11:35 AM BST Hollie Davidson will referee Friday’s PRO14 game between Munster and Benetton with Joy Neville serving as television match official (TMO), making it the first top-tier men’s professional match with both roles filled by female officials. Scotland’s Davidson, 28, was set to take charge of a European Challenge Cup game in January and
Yuvraj Singh rolled back the years with his knock of 49 not out off just 20 balls.© Road Safety World Series/Twitter Yuvraj Singh turned back the clock in the semi final of the ongoing Road Safety World Series by hitting 49 not out off just 20 balls against West Indies Legends on Wednesday. Yuvraj’s knock
10:21 AM ET So Barcelona have their new president, Joan Laporta, who also happens to be their old president, and speculation is rife about what might happen next. Scenarios range from total doom and gloom — a billion-plus dollars of debt, Lionel Messi‘s expiring contract, a global pandemic devastating the football economy — to a
10:43 AM ET The Buffalo Sabres finally fired head coach Ralph Krueger on Wednesday, having gone 6-18-4 in this cursed season for them. That included a 3-2 loss to the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night, who snapped an 11-game home losing streak (0-10-1) while pushing Buffalo’s losing streak to 12 games (0-10-2). Krueger finally
7:46 AM ET The bantamweight division is perhaps the deepest and most intriguing in the UFC. Aljamain Sterling‘s recent dethroning of Petr Yan did nothing to clarify the division’s hierarchy. Yan was ahead on two scorecards in the fourth round when he landed an illegal knee to the head of a grounded Sterling, who became
7:00 AM ET Why should basketball get to have all the fun in March? Better yet, why limit college football to a four-team playoff? 64 teams make it a lot more fun — and a lot more representative. Here’s the format for ESPN’s fictional 2021 NCAA football tournament: We’ve seeded the teams 1 through 64,
7:48 AM ET Canelo Alvarez defended his two super middleweight titles with a dominant victory over mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim on Feb. 27. Alvarez started fast and forced Yildirim to retire in his corner at the end of Round 3. That victory put Alvarez in position to face WBO world titlist Billy Joe Saunders on
The penultimate leg of this year’s Tour of Britain will run from Hawick to Edinburgh, as three new stages are confirmed. South Cheshire, Warrington, Cumbria and Gateshead will also feature on the tour as well as two stages in Wales. Cornwall, Devon and Aberdeenshire had previously been confirmed as venues, with the event taking place
7:00 AM ET Time is a warp these days, but believe it or not, we’re at the halfway mark of the NHL’s abridged 56-game 2021 season. For this week’s ESPN Power Rankings, we identified the MVP on every team at the midseason point. How we rank: The ESPN hockey editorial staff submits selections ranking teams
12:50 AM ET When Rookie of the Year frontrunner LaMelo Ball takes the court against LeBron James for the first time in his young career later this week, he says he doesn’t expect to feel any added excitement competing against the 18-year veteran. “I mean, nah,” Ball, 19, told reporters on a videoconference call Tuesday
IND vs ENG: Virat Kohli plays a shot during the third T20I, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.© BCCI Virat Kohli was in top batting form for India during the third T20I, but couldn’t prevent a defeat against England. The Indian skipper slammed an unbeaten half-century, which has been hailed by fans and pundits.
11:46 PM ET ESPN News Services PITTSBURGH — If this was a glimpse of what the goaltending situation will be like in Boston after veterans Tuukka Rask and Jaroslav Halak move on, the Bruins will be in fine shape. Dan Vladar made 34 saves for his first win in his first NHL start, and Boston
10:03 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona president-elect Joan Laporta has finally secured a bank guarantee worth €125 million and will officially take office on Wednesday, sources have confirmed to ESPN. Laporta, who was previously Barca president between 2003 and 2010, was voted back into power last weekend ahead of rival candidates Victor Font
8:44 PM ET Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. — New Jersey Devils captain Nico Hischier is expected to miss three weeks following surgery Monday to repair a frontal sinus fracture. Hischier was injured in a 5-2 loss to the Washington Capitals on Feb. 27, when he was struck in the visor by a deflected puck. Hischier
8:40 PM ET LSU began spring football practice Tuesday with sophomore Max Johnson taking the first-team reps at quarterback. But coach Ed Orgeron told reporters that there’s no favorite and that all the quarterbacks took equal reps. “The competition is open,” he said. “Let the best man win.” Myles Brennan, a junior, started the first
5:06 PM ET The Chicago Bears and quarterback Andy Dalton have agreed to a one-year, $10 million deal, with the chance for the quarterback to earn another $3 million in incentives, sources tell ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Dalton, 33, spent 2020 with the Dallas Cowboys after a nine-year run as the Cincinnati Bengals‘ starter. Signed as