12:55 AM ET Sometime around 4:30 p.m. local time Monday, Rudy Gobert walked out of the 21c Museum Hotel in the west end of downtown Oklahoma City and stepped onto a bus to make the seven-block trip over to Chesapeake Energy Arena. Nine and a half months ago, Gobert walked out of that same hotel
AUS vs IND: India beat Australia by 8 wickets at the MCG to level the four-match series at 1-1.© AFP India looked down and out after the humiliating loss in the opening Test in Adelaide. With talismanic captain and batting star Virat Kohli also returning home on paternity leave, few gave India a hope of
9:45 PM ET MLB InsidersESPN After a slow start to the offseason, the San Diego Padres have ignited the hot stove with a pair of blockbuster deals for starting pitchers. First, San Diego acquired 2018 AL Cy Young winner Blake Snell for prospects from the Tampa Bay Rays. Then the Padres turned around and added
8:00 AM ET Mikel Arteta was entitled to breathe a sigh of relief after Arsenal‘s 3-1 victory against Chelsea on Saturday ended a seven-game winless streak in the Premier League and took the edge off what was beginning to look like a defining, and potentially decisive, week for the Gunners’ manager. Just imagine how intense
11:58 AM ET Despite blowout losses in Notre Dame‘s last two marquee games, coach Brian Kelly said on Monday that the Irish don’t have anything to prove in Friday’s College Football Playoff Semifinal against No. 1 Alabama. Notre Dame last faced Alabama in the 2013 BCS National Championship Game, a 42-14 loss. Two years ago,
6:24 PM ET WBC and IBF light heavyweight titlist Artur Beterbiev’s Jan. 30 fight against Adam Deines has been postponed after Beterbiev tested positive for COVID-19. The 35-year-old was scheduled to make his fourth defense of the IBF title and first defense of the WBC title he won in 2019 by TKO over Oleksandr Gvozdyk.
6:27 PM ET ESPN News Services Chicago Blackhawks forward Kirby Dach will miss four to five months after having surgery Monday on a fractured right wrist, the team said. Dach, playing for Team Canada, was hurt during an exhibition win last week against Russia ahead of the world junior championships. The 19-year-old was injured on
11:12 AM ET Clemson coach Dabo Swinney knows folks in Ohio aren’t thrilled about where he ranked Ohio State on his ballot in the Amway Coaches Poll from USA Today (No. 11), but he’s not backing down from the choice. Asked about his ranking during a Monday media session in advance of No. 2 Clemson’s
7:00 AM ET Mike Reiss Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered Patriots since 1997 Joined ESPN in 2009 Marcel Louis-Jacques FOXBOROUGH, Mass. to ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The torch has been passed. Finally. The New England Patriots‘ stranglehold on the AFC East is over, and it happened earlier in the season than many anticipated. The Buffalo
3:35 PM ET While Chelsea were far better against Aston Villa than in their limp 3-1 defeat at Arsenal, the football world is still waiting for Frank Lampard’s side to return to top form. Monday’s 1-1 draw was not the result Chelsea wanted, or needed, to get their season back on track. Instead, things are
12:31 PM ET NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie has been diagnosed with a partially torn right ACL, the team announced on Monday. He is scheduled to have surgery next week. Dinwiddie was injured in the third quarter of Sunday night’s game against the Charlotte Hornets when he drove against Bismack Biyombo and
Sri Lanka lost two early second innings wickets after taking a pounding from South Africa’s batsmen on the third day of the first Test at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Monday – but batting coach Grant Flower said they were effectively five or six wickets down. Former captain Faf du Plessis led the batting assault,
7:00 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. Entering the 2020 season, there was never any doubt who the starting catcher was for the New York Yankees. That ended with the headline-grabbing benching of one of the most polarizing players to wear a Yankees uniform in recent
10:00 AM ET Santa Claus may have been a couple of days late, but he finally gave baseball fans a gift: A major MLB trade to discuss and debate. The Tampa Bay Rays will be sending 2018 Cy Young winner Blake Snell to the San Diego Padres for pitcher Luis Patino, catcher Francisco Mejia and
10:26 AM ET Washington Capitals goaltender Henrik Lundqvist will undergo open-heart surgery to address the issue that will prevent him from playing this season. Lundqvist announced Monday on Twitter that he will undergo an “aortic valve replacement, aortic root and ascending aortic replacement.” The 38-year-old Lundqvist said: “Last 3 weeks my focus has shifted from
10:33 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — Eagles coach Doug Pederson does not believe his job is in jeopardy and “fully expects” to return in the same role next season. “I feel fully confident to be the head coach of the Eagles in 2021,” he said during his radio appearance on 94.1 WIP Monday morning. “The thing
7:20 AM ET The LA Clippers, thanks to an impressive 2-0 start — a season-opening win over the Los Angeles Lakers and a Christmas Day triumph against the Denver Nuggets — might have had the inside track for No. 1 in our latest NBA Power Rankings. Then Sunday happened. In a matinee showdown, the Dallas
Virat Kohli, after winning top honours at the ICC Awards of the Decade, took to Twitter to thank his family, friends and well-wishers. Posting a long message on the micro-blogging site, the Indian skipper also shared his 10-year-old tweet from March 16, 2010, in which a young Kohli was hoping to score loads of runs for