1:03 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Toronto Raptors president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri said Wednesday that his decision on whether to re-sign with the franchise this offseason will be determined by conversations he is set to have with the team’s ownership in the coming weeks. “Everybody says, ‘Blank check, blank check,’ but I’m not as
Month: May 2021
1:14 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — The Dallas Open will bring professional men’s tennis to the city next year as the first ATP Tour event there since the circuit started in 1990. The indoor hard-court tournament will be played at SMU from Feb. 6-13, the tour announced Wednesday. It is an ATP 250 event
1:10 PM ET Associated Press A new basketball league created for standout high school players is building a state-of-the-art facility in Atlanta. Also under construction: the high-level hoopsters set to join the league, which offers another possible avenue to the NBA. Overtime Elite announced Wednesday that it is constructing a 103,000-square-foot complex where prep players
1:30 PM ET Duke is promoting Nina King to be its next athletic director, the school announced Wednesday. King, who joined Duke’s athletic department in September 2008 and serves as senior deputy director of athletics, will replace Kevin White, who is retiring Sept. 1 after 13 years at the school. She will become the first
News The tournament was to be hosted by Sri Lanka mid-year The Asia Cup scheduled for 2021 appears increasingly likely to be postponed, with all four major Asian sides facing packed schedules until the end of the year. It was set to be hosted by Sri Lanka, mid-year, but ESPNcricinfo understands that Sri Lanka Cricket
12:42 PM BST Murrayfield will allow in 16,500 spectators when the British & Irish Lions face Japan on June 26 ahead of their tour to South Africa this year, the Lions said on Wednesday. The move to let fans attend amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was made after consultations with the Scottish government. 1 Related
12:01 PM ET Marshall All-American offensive lineman Cain Madden announced on Wednesday that he’s entering the college football transfer portal. A former walk-on, Cain started nine games last season and was named second-team All-American by The Associated Press. A so-called “super senior,” Cain will make use of the extra year of eligibility granted by the
9:06 AM ET Fortnite and the NBA are teaming up in a significant virtual collaboration. Dubbed “Fortnite x NBA: The Crossover,” the event coincides with the start of the 2021 NBA postseason. On Friday, players will be able to equip NBA outfits for all 30 teams, and on May 25th can visit a “NBA Welcome
8:03 AM ET Tatiana Suarez, one of the best women’s MMA fighters in the world, is finally close to returning to the Octagon. Suarez told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in a video interview published Wednesday that she has been medically cleared by doctors and is targeting a return to the UFC in September, or perhaps even
10:47 AM ET The head of UK Anti-Doping, Nicole Sapstead, is leaving to take up a new role with the International Tennis Integrity Agency after 12 years with the organisation, UKAD said on Wednesday. Sapstead, who has been chief executive of UKAD for six years, will become the ITIA’s Senior Director for Anti-Doping. 1 Related
Lewis Hamilton says he believes Max Verstappen “feels perhaps he has a lot to prove” in their title fight. The pair have had a number of near-misses racing wheel-to-wheel in 2021. “I think I have done well to avoid all the incidents,” Hamilton said. “But we have 19 more [races] and we could connect. He
Graham Hunter’s view Whether this season of remarkable discoveries (Pedri, Ilaix Moriba, Ansu Fati) and remarkable evolutions (Frenkie De Jong, Oscar Mingueza, Ronald Araujo and Ousmane Dembele) has been enough to convince Messi to stay at Barcelona is a hot topic. And a confusing one. Is he keen to leave? No. Will his family be
May 18, 2021 KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — The fee was in the neighborhood of $80 per hour. That is what Rick Sessinghaus charged all the junior golfers at the executive course he worked at in Glendale, California. And yes, that included a very young Collin Morikawa. The reigning PGA Championship winner was just 8 years
7:00 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — Tarron Jackson‘s older brother, Daron, was dying, and it was up to their father, Alphonso, to deliver the message to his 9-year-old son. The words he chose helped shape the path Tarron has spent the past 13 years blazing, leading him from Aiken, South Carolina, to the Philadelphia Eagles, where
7:43 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor have worked for decades to reach this moment. On Saturday in Las Vegas, one of the two undefeated and
11:12 AM ET The state of baseball has never been more in flux. The players on the field are more talented than ever before, but increased velocity from pitchers has led to record strikeout totals and low batting averages. There is new generation of exciting young stars emerging, but with every bat flip comes another
7:15 AM ET Editor’s note: From rising strikeout totals and unwritten rules debates to connecting with a new generation of fans and a looming labor battle, baseball is at a crossroads. As MLB faces these challenges, we are embarking on a season-long look at The State of Baseball, examining the storylines that will determine how
7:00 AM ET Earlier this month, we started our Sales Pitch series by ranking the schools in the ACC based on the quality of their enticements for men’s basketball recruits, and then moved on to the Big East, where we examined whether anyone in the league can close the recruiting gap on Villanova. This week,
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