Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 08:48 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. — Chesson Hadley played bogey-free Thursday in the Sanderson Farms Championship and posted an 8-under 64 for a one-shot lead in his latest bid to secure his PGA Tour card. This is the third straight year Hadley has been on the bubble to finish among
Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 08:03 PM ET SAN DIEGO — Bob Melvin confirmed Thursday that he will be back as manager of the San Diego Padres, adding that he’s “looking forward to having a much better year than we had this year.” General manager A.J. Preller announced Wednesday that Melvin would be back under
Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 09:16 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sarah Gallagher won the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, beating Brenda Corrie Kuehn 1-up on Thursday at Troon Country Club. The 50-year-old Gallagher, a sixth-grade social studies teacher from Canton, Georgia, won with a 5-foot bogey putt for a halve on the final hole. “I
Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 01:14 PM ET HOUSTON — The Astros will start Justin Verlander in Game 1 of the AL Division Series against the Minnesota Twins on Saturday. It will be the 35th career postseason start for Verlander, who returned to the AL West champion Astros in a trade from the New York
Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 09:19 PM ET THE COLONY, Texas — Hyo Joo Kim took the first-round lead Thursday in The Ascendant LPGA, breaking away at Old American with a back-nine birdie run in a 7-under 64. Kim, the 28-year-old South Korean player ranked No. 7 in the world, had a two-stroke lead over
Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentOct 5, 2023, 03:07 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Gregg Berhalter and Giovanni Reyna, seen here in March 2022, had a falling-out after the World Cup and will reunite for the first time since at a USMNT camp next week. Robin Alam/ISI
The Chicago Blackhawks have nearly doubled their season-ticket base thanks to the arrival of rookie phenom Connor Bedard. Bedard, 18, was the first overall pick in the 2023 draft and is one of the most-hyped prospects in years. When the Blackhawks won the draft lottery in May, the team sold $5.2 million in new season-ticket
Ramona Shelburne, ESPN Senior WriterOct 5, 2023, 12:01 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid, the NBA’s reigning Most Valuable Player, has committed to play for Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Embiid informed Team
Dave McMenamin, ESPN Staff WriterOct 5, 2023, 05:30 PM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – LeBron James will not play in his team’s exhibition opener against the
Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 04:40 PM ET NEW YORK — Billy Eppler quit as general manager of the New York Mets on Thursday, just three days after David Stearns was hired above him as the team’s first president of baseball operations. Eppler’s decision continues an overhaul that followed a fourth-place NL East finish for
Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 02:41 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hailie Deegan will make the move to NASCAR’s second-tier Xfinity Series next season in a multi-year deal with AM Racing announced Thursday. The 22-year-old Californian is the only woman competing full-time at NASCAR’s national level and has spent the last three seasons in the
Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 03:16 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles right winger Arthur Kaliyev was suspended for four games – two preseason and two regular season – without pay Thursday for kneeing Anaheim‘s Chase De Leo. The incident occurred early in the second period during Tuesday’s preseason game in Los Angeles. Kaliyev
Stephen Holder, ESPNOct 5, 2023, 12:51 PM ET Close Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in the 2015 Indiana Associated Press Media Editors competition, and he is a previous top-10 winner in explanatory journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors national
Associated Press Oct 5, 2023, 02:33 PM ET GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy — A large fire in a temporary hospitality structure at the Marco Simone club outside Rome that hosted the Ryder Cup last weekend was quickly brought under control, organizers of golf’s biggest team event said Thursday, adding that nobody was injured “A fire was
If you were asked in August to pick five teams that would be undefeated at this point, you’d probably be quick to name the traditional powerhouses: Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, USC, Alabama. And you’d be wrong on Alabama. But you get the point. Who in the world thought Louisville, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and Washington State
Lewis Hamilton has praised Max Verstappen for doing “an exceptional job” as the Red Bull driver stands on the brink of a third consecutive title. Verstappen will win the Formula 1 drivers’ championship in Saturday’s sprint race in Qatar as long as team-mate Sergio Perez does not score at least six more points than him.
Mike Coppinger, ESPNOct 5, 2023, 11:49 AM ET Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk are likely to fight not once, but twice, for heavyweight supremacy. The deal for the undisputed heavyweight championship fight, which will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, contains a two-way rematch clause that the loser of the matchup can trigger for a
Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterOct 5, 2023, 12:37 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Ross Chastain is NASCAR’s preeminent lightning rod, but he’s got better things to do than trade barbs with rivals. Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Ross