12:52 AM ET Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said his team is battling two opponents: The Nashville Predators, who defeated them in double-overtime in Game 3 of their series on Friday night, and the referees he believes are assisting them. “We played our butts off. We played great, we played hard, we’re playing a great
1:15 AM ET Brianna Williams Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Ja Morant was “on his grizzly” as he led the Memphis Grizzlies to a playoff spot with a win over league MVP finalist Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors. Read more: Lessons from the wildest NBA season on record The 21-year-old put
12:10 AM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — Ronald Acuna Jr. hit a grand slam in the second inning off Tyler Anderson, pinch-hitter Ehire Adrianza added another slam in the eighth against position player Wilmer Difo and the Atlanta Braves homered seven times in a 20-1 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night. Austin
12:37 AM ET Cris Cyborg picked up yet another victory in a long, illustrious career. But this one, unlikely many of the others, wasn’t over quickly. Cyborg defended her Bellator women’s featherweight title, beating Leslie Smith by TKO at 4 minutes, 51 seconds of the fifth round in the main event of Bellator 259 on
10:15 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson enters the third round of the PGA Championship at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island tied for the lead. He will play in the final group, alongside Louis Oosthuizen. Here are the tee times for the third round: ESPN+ Featured Groups All times ET 8:40 a.m.
3:03 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The timetable for Patrick Mahomes to participate in team drills after his offseason turf toe surgery has been accelerated, as the quarterback will take part when the Chiefs begin offseason practice next week, a source confirmed to ESPN. The initial plan after the surgery in February was for
7:50 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson is serious about getting on top of his focus issues. After jumping out front at the PGA Championship on Friday, he agreed to take just three questions from reporters waiting to grill him about his standing atop the leaderboard and his quest for a sixth major
7:41 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Not all championships are created equally. Even in boxing, with the most legitimate belts swimming in an ocean of trinket titles, this is true. A fighter can sometimes stumble into becoming a champion if the matchmaking is good enough or the circumstances are favorable. That’s not the case with
6:00 AM ET Sid LoweSpain writer By 8 p.m. CEST on Saturday night one of Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid will be champions of La Liga, and one won’t be. And that’s when they’ll start to wonder, when they’ll remember every shot, every miss, every chance that went untaken. Every single little thing that happened
6:18 PM ET Manny Pacquaio and Errol Spence Jr. made headlines on Friday when they announced one of the biggest fights in recent years. Pacquiao, 62-7-2, 39 KOs), 42, of General Santos City, Philippines, boxing’s only eight-division world champion, will face Spence (27-0, 21 KOs), 31, of Desoto, Texas, the only unified welterweight champion, on
3:55 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” A member of the Seattle Mariners‘ traveling party tested positive for COVID-19, causing concern within the organization about potential spread due to a significant portion of players being unvaccinated, sources familiar with
2:01 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Friday said his personal preference is for the play-in tournament to continue after this season, and that it was a success because of the incentive it gave teams to care until the end of the regular season. “I haven’t made any secret that I want
12:55 PM ET The ACC distributed a record $497.2 million for the 2019-20 financial year, the highest gross revenue ever reported for the league, according to tax documents released Friday. The revenue increased more than $42 million over the previous year — thanks largely to its increased television and postseason bowl revenues. Television revenue increased
2:22 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson is the clubhouse leader at the PGA Championship — a surprise given his recent form and struggles with numerous aspects of his game. Jason Day had an easy explanation. “There were no foul balls,” said Day, who played with the 50-year-old Mickelson during the first two
11:13 AM ET The first time Chris Wondolowski met Cade Cowell, the San Jose Earthquakes legend wasn’t in a good place. It was 2018, and the Quakes were in the midst of a wretched season in which they would finish dead last in MLS. Wondolowski wasn’t in the starting lineup either. So when he was
11:06 AM ET ESPN 300 running back Jaydon Blue, one of the top-ranked running backs in the 2022 class, said he will sit out his senior season of high school in 2021 to prepare for college. Blue is the No. 82 ranked recruit overall in the ESPN 300 out of Klein Cain High School in
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on the occasion of International Tea Day took to Twitter to share a picture of their captain MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and West Indies’ star all-rounder Dwayne Bravo on Friday. In the picture, former India captain Dhoni can be seen with a cup in his hand while Suresh Raina is having
1:19 PM ET Associated Press PARMA, Italy — Coco Gauff reached her first clay-court final by beating Katerina Siniakova 7-5, 1-6, 6-2 on Friday at the Emilia-Romagna Open. It’s a second career WTA final for the 17-year-old American, who reached her first semifinal on clay last week at the Italian Open. She is gearing up