9:24 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim There is no such thing as being down to your last chance in mixed martial arts. Just about everyone in the sport loses at some point, and even a multifight skid doesn’t necessarily deposit you at the end of the road. Unlike in boxing, where the zero in the “L”
6:00 AM ET Chelsea‘s biggest mistake this season was sacking manager Thomas Tuchel in September. The second was appointing Graham Potter to replace the Champions League-winning coach at Stamford Bridge. There have been plenty of other bad choices along the way by the club’s new owners — a consortium led by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner
6:00 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Between participating in both the Hula Bowl and East-West Shrine Game following his final season at Rutgers, preparing for the NFL draft and then heading to Kansas City for offseason workouts with the Chiefs, Isiah Pacheco wasn’t able to take any kind of extended break before his rookie
7:31 AM ET Associated Press WWE and the company that runs Ultimate Fighting Championship will combine to create a $21.4 billion sports entertainment company. A new publicly traded company will be formed that houses the UFC and WWE brands. Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. will hold a 51% controlling interest in the new company once the
7:29 AM ET NBA insiders With the 2022-23 NBA season entering its final week, it’s time to take a look at the league’s major award races. While the contentious MVP race has garnered most of the attention, each of the league’s five major individual player awards has multiple worthy candidates. We asked our ESPN panel
6:00 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — Speaking at the league meetings in Arizona last week, Eagles CEO Jeffrey Lurie included Jalen Hurts on a select list of quarterbacks he views as borderline unstoppable in the NFL. Lurie explained his team always allocates more dollars to the offensive side of the ball because even the best defenses
7:05 AM ET ESPN staff Entering the penultimate week of the NHL regular season, the playoff races — particularly for the wild cards — continue to captivate us. If it seems like every game seems to have major playoff implications, that’s not a gigantic stretch of the truth. So which games on this week’s calendar
11:46 PM ET HOUSTON — The Los Angeles Lakers‘ late-season surge, with Sunday’s victory over the Houston Rockets marking their 10th win in their past 14 games, has LeBron James talking about a hopeful title run once again. “We just want to put ourselves in position to be able to compete for a championship,” James
10:46 PM ET Another weekend of European football is in the books and, once again, there was drama across the board. Jack Grealish starred in Manchester City‘s 4-1 rout of Liverpool, but did Pep Guardiola’s celebrations take the gloss off the win? Elsewhere, Karim Benzema was back to his best for Real Madrid, Bayern Munich
8:34 PM ET ESPN News Services ST. LOUIS — Charlie Coyle scored the game-winning shootout goal as the Bruins recovered from blowing a 3-0 lead to beat the St. Louis Blues 4-3 for Boston’s 60th victory of the season. The Bruins became just the fourth team in NHL history to win at least 60 games
8:01 PM ET The Portland Trail Blazers pulled off the largest NBA upset in 30 years on Sunday by knocking off the Minnesota Timberwolves as 19.5-point underdogs. The Trail Blazers were missing four starters, including star guard Damian Lillard, and had lost 11 of 12 games heading into the game. But Portland still managed to
3:12 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Daniil Medvedev captured his fourth ATP title of the year on Sunday, beating Jannik Sinner 7-5, 6-3 for the Miami Open men’s singles title and moving to 6-0 in their career matchup. Medvedev is now the most sizzling player on the men’s tour, winning 24 of
2:55 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Don Zimmer, a popular fixture in professional baseball for 66 years as a manager, player, coach and executive, has become the first person in the Tampa Bay Rays‘ Hall of Fame. Zimmer was honored in a ceremony before Sunday’s game against the Detroit Tigers. He spent
5:16 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Kodai Senga struck out eight in his major league debut, wearing a glove with an image of a ghost and a pitchfork in reference to his “ghost forkball,” leading the New York Mets over the Miami Marlins 5-1 on Sunday. The 30-year-old left-hander agreed to a $75 million,
3:16 PM ET Graham Potter joined Chelsea in September. Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/Getty Images Graham Potter is out as Chelsea manager after just seven months in charge following a disappointing tenure that has seen the club slip to 11th place in the Premier League. Potter, 47, left Brighton to replace Thomas Tuchel at Stamford Bridge
2:41 PM ET Diamondbacks left-hander Madison Bumgarner has been sent back to Arizona to be evaluated by the club’s medical team after citing arm fatigue following his start against the Los Angeles Dodgers, manager Torey Lovullo said Sunday. Bumgarner (0-1, 11.25 ERA) allowed five runs on four hits with four walks and two strikeouts in
2:04 PM ET Marco Kasper, the No. 8 overall pick in the 2022 draft, will make his NHL debut with the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday night in Toronto. Coach Derek Lalonde confirmed after Sunday’s morning skate that Kasper will play center on a line with Andrew Copp and Lucas Raymond. Kasper, a native of
2:05 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Mauricio Lara and Leigh Wood will meet in a WBA featherweight title rematch on May 27 in Manchester, England, Matchroom Boxing announced. Lara (26-2-1, 19 KOs) scored a seventh-round TKO victory over Wood in February to win his first title. The 25-year-old Mexican was down on all three scorecards when