8:10 PM ET Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin has agreed to a three-year contract to become the San Diego Padres‘ new manager, a source confirmed to ESPN. The A’s had picked up his 2022 option but allowed him to interview for the Padres job. Melvin, 60, had been the A’s manager the past 11 seasons
Month: October 2021
12:44 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Kayla Harrison‘s dominance of the PFL continues. For the second consecutive season, Harrison has captured the PFL lightweight championship. She did so with ease Wednesday at the Hard Rock Live; she attempted 90 strikes and landed all but five of them en route to an armbar submission
11:05 AM ET Bowl Season executives who oversee the operation of 43 postseason bowl games sent a letter this week to hundreds of leaders in college football asking that any future College Football Playoff games in potential expansion models be held at bowl sites instead of on campus, according to a copy of the letter
6:00 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — A few hours after quarterback Kyler Murray led the Arizona Cardinals to a Week 5 win over the San Francisco 49ers, he went home, sat down in front of his dual monitor setup, put a headset on over his Phoenix Suns hat and started playing one of his favorite
On a freezing cold December night, thousands gathered at New York’s Madison Square Garden. With the smell of chicken and potatoes cooked over oil stoves hanging in the midnight air, the crowd chattered and beat their hands together, trying to stay warm. From a small canvas tent by the side of a wooden, banked oval
5:15 PM ET Florida Panthers coach Joel Quenneville met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in New York for about two hours on Thursday concerning his involvement in the Chicago Blackhawks‘ sexual abuse case. Panthers team president Matt Caldwell and general manager Bill Zito also were at the meeting. Kyle Beach on Wednesday came forward as
6:40 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Brandon Hagy and Chad Ramey avoided the worst of the wind Thursday afternoon, each with a 6-under 65 to share the lead in the Bermuda Championship when the opening round at Port Royal was halted by darkness. For those who started in the morning, it might have
5:00 AM ET ESPN’s lead Bundesliga commentator Derek Rae dissects Borussia Dortmund without Erling Haaland: Can they make do and mend in the temporary absence of their emerging world superstar? You could almost hear the gasps and groans from BVB fans worldwide when coach Marco Rose uttered those fateful words at his news conference last
5:08 PM ET HOUSTON — The NAACP sent a letter to the players’ associations in five professional sports Thursday asking players to reconsider signing with teams in Texas due to recent laws passed in the state. In a two-page letter signed by NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson that was sent to the MLB, NBA,
5:25 PM ET A celebrity Italian DJ and television presenter says he took his allegations that Conor McGregor punched him in the face to police. Francesco Facchinetti confirmed with ESPN in an interview Thursday that he filed a complaint with Italian law enforcement several days after he claims he was struck by McGregor, the UFC
9:58 AM ET Reus is unique in that he joined Dortmund in his early 20s but, rather than making a big move in his prime like so many of his teammates, he chose to stay. Alexandre Simoes/Borussia Dortmund/Getty Images Marco Reus is old. He’s 32, which is young-ish for the general population — he’s only two
11:21 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Claressa Shields has suffered the first defeat of her professional fighting career. In her second MMA bout, Shields was outpointed by Abigail Montes via split decision on Wednesday at Hard Rock Live. One judge scored the bout for Shields, 29-28, overruled by two 29-28 tallies for Montes.
2:15 PM ET U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu eased into the Transylvania Open quarterfinals with a controlled 6-3 6-4 win over home favourite Ana Bogdan in the second round on Thursday. Raducanu followed up her maiden WTA Tour win over Polona Hercog — a battling three-set victory on Tuesday — with a much improved performance
2:27 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Jose Uzcategui tested positive for the banned substance rEPO, multiple sources told ESPN, and he’s been pulled from his Nov. 13 fight with David Benavidez. Benavidez, ESPN’s No. 2 super middleweight, will face a new opponent in the Showtime main event on Nov. 13 in Phoenix, Arizona, sources said. Recombinant
T20 WC: Nicholas Pooran described Kieron Pollard as a “wonderful captain.© Twitter West Indies batter Nicholas Pooran described Kieron Pollard as a “wonderful captain” on Thursday as the defending champions face a T20 World Cup survival battle against equally hapless Bangladesh. The West Indies have lost both of their Super 12 matches so far and another
1:04 PM BST Fly-half Gareth Anscombe will face the land of his birth after returning to the Wales side for the first time in over two years when they face New Zealand in their autumn international test in Cardiff on Saturday. Auckland-born Anscombe has been preferred to Rhys Priestland in the No. 10 jersey as
12:14 PM ET The 2021 World Series between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros is knotted at a game apiece as it heads to Atlanta for Friday’s Game 3. What have we learned so far in the Series? What can we expect next? Has anything we’ve seen made us rethink our initial Fall Classic predictions?
7:00 AM ET ON THE LAST day of the 2002 season, Sept. 29, I notched the 1,000th hit of my career, a single to left against the Marlins in Florida. My Philadelphia Phillies were about to head home under .500, so it felt nice to have something to celebrate. But that joy would be short-lived.
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