11:55 PM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — Nate Johnson spent the last seven years as an assistant baseball coach at Orange Coast College, working underneath the legendary John Altobelli. He was promoted to associate head coach before this season began, which put Johnson in line to take over when Altobelli retired — which Altobelli continued
Month: January 2020
8:34 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant died Sunday at age 41. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among nine people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, a source confirmed to ESPN. Bryant entered the NBA straight out of high school in 1996 and won five championships and one regular-season
8:18 PM ET LOS ANGELES — An emotional Shaquille O’Neal broke down in tears Tuesday, knowing that he won’t be able to have another conversation with Kobe Bryant or celebrate his former teammate’s induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame. “I haven’t felt a pain that sharp in a while,” O’Neal said during a TNT
2:57 AM GMT Will Pucovski will make his return to representative ranks after taking his most recent mental-health break ahead of the Test summer against Pakistan and New Zealand, as captain of a Cricket Australia XI. The side will face the England Lions in a three-match 50-over series to begin their developmental tour of Australia
7:00 AM ET Former manager Bobby Bragan once described baseball statistics like this: “Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.” Good one. Nonetheless, baseball is a numbers game. As we peel away from the Astros’
8:44 PM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — A pair of two-time major winners will play for a spot in the Australian Open final after No. 4 Simona Halep and unseeded Garbiñe Muguruza won their quarterfinals matches in straight sets on Wednesday. Both have already won Wimbledon and the French Open and are bidding for
7:00 AM ET If, for some reason, someone wanted to put together a list of the most insignificant San Francisco 49ers games over the past 40 years, the team’s loss at New England to close out the 2004 season would be a strong candidate to top the list. The 49ers had already clinched the league’s
7:30 AM ET NFL NationESPN No NFL season goes exactly as expected, and Super Bowl LIV illustrates a perfect example. Nine months ago, the San Francisco 49ers were picking second overall in the NFL draft after finishing 4-12 and the Kansas City Chiefs were coming off a 2018 season that saw them ranked 31st in
6:55 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Daniel Suarez landed a job two weeks before the NASCAR season begins when Gaunt Brothers Racing signed the Mexican driver for the No. 96 Toyota in the Cup Series. Suarez learned during the final weekend of last season, in November, that Stewart-Haas Racing was letting him go
5:20 PM ET St. Louis Blues forward Sammy Blais has been activated from injured reserve, the team announced Tuesday. Blais, 23, missed 28 games while recovering from surgery on his right wrist. He played 20 games before the injury, posting five goals and eight points for the Western Conference-leading Blues. St. Louis went 17-8-3 in
4:31 PM ET Ernie Els has a unique perspective on the proposed Premier Golf League that hopes to lure the top players in the game to a big-money, team-oriented concept. Els, 50, strongly considered playing in a league with a similar concept more than two decades ago. The South African, who won four major championships
3:52 PM GMT Saracens interim chief executive Edward Griffiths has resigned after less than a month in the role, the Gallagher Premiership have announced. Griffiths had re-signed as chief executive on a one-year contract, having previously left in 2015, after Nigel Wray retired earlier this month. Premiership champions Saracens will be relegated at the end
8:37 AM ET Steve KimESPN On Jan. 23, trainer Manny Robles announced that he was no longer training Andy Ruiz Jr. After defeating Anthony Joshua back in June to capture the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles, Ruiz was the feel-good story of 2019. But then Ruiz showed up to the rematch in Saudi Arabia
1:56 PM GMT Ireland captain Johnny Sexton is set to start the team’s Six Nations opener against Scotland this weekend after recovering from a knee injury. Fly-half Sexton has not played since hobbling off while playing for Leinster in a Champions Cup game against Northampton in early December, but last week the 34-year-old confirmed his
7:00 AM ET MOSCOW — When U.S. national team defender Megan Bozek signed with the Shenzhen KRS Vanke Rays of the Russian-based Women’s Hockey League in November, she met the team in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, for an away game. Bozek and fellow American teammate Alex Carpenter dropped off their equipment at the hotel’s front desk.
2:30 PM ET Associated Press BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A judge flatly rejected Jerry Sandusky’s latest request to have his 30- to 60-year child molestation sentence reduced during a brief hearing Tuesday. Judge Maureen Skerda said she purposely fashioned the prison term to have an impact on the former Penn State assistant football coach and noted
6:45 AM ET NFL NationESPN Super Bowl LIV on Sunday will showcase some of the NFL’s elite players for the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs — and many of those players have shown great improvements throughout their careers. In an effort to highlight those NFL players who have made big jumps from one
12:52 PM ET AVENTURA, Fla. — Patrick Mahomes may have to wait another year for his massive contract extension. Kansas City Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said the Chiefs could wait until next year to sign Mahomes to a new contract. “There will be a right time sometime in the next 12 to 15 months to
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