6:17 PM ET NEW YORK — Guard Kemba Walker and center Robert Williams have been ruled out of Tuesday’s Game 5 of the Boston Celtics‘ first-round series with the Brooklyn Nets, coach Brad Stevens said. Stevens told reporters in his pregame availability that Walker continues to be sore but that Williams has showed slight improvements.
Month: June 2021
4:52 PM ET ESPN News Services SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners placed outfielder Kyle Lewis on the 10-day injured list Tuesday with a torn meniscus in his right knee. Manager Scott Servais termed it a “small tear” in his pregame media availability, but it’s troublesome nonetheless. This is the second time this season the Mariners
5:33 PM ET Georgia is adding another weapon to its offense with former LSU tight end Arik Gilbert deciding to join the football team. Gilbert, the No. 1 tight end and No. 6 prospect overall in the 2020 ESPN 300, is expected to enroll in summer classes at UGA later this month, sources told ESPN
5:07 PM ET Associated Press RIGA, Latvia — Kevin Labanc and Conor Garland scored two goals apiece and the United States won its sixth straight game with a 4-2 victory over Italy in its final preliminary game at the world hockey championship on Tuesday. With the victory, the U.S. clinched first in Group B and
5:07 PM ET The Philadelphia 76ers‘ Joel Embiid will be doubtful for Game 5 against the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Embiid had an MRI on his right knee Tuesday and is expected to be evaluated further Wednesday. He suffered the knee injury after a hard fall that knocked him
3:14 PM ET Associated Press RED BANK, N.J. — Sam Boulmetis Sr., a Hall of Famer who rode for nearly 20 years and won most of his four jockey titles at Monmouth Park in the 1950s, has died. He was 94. He died Sunday at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, his family said. Boulmetis
2:36 PM ET Associated Press EDMONTON, Alberta — The Edmonton CFL franchise has changed its team name to Elks. The club made the announcement Tuesday. Edmonton dropped its longtime name, Eskimos, last year after a similar decision by the NFL’s Washington team amid pressure on franchises to eliminate racist or stereotypical names. Alright lets breakdown
4:36 PM ET PITTSBURGH — With the disappointment of a first-round playoff loss to the Cleveland Browns still fresh, Ben Roethlisberger made the immediate decision to return as the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback for at least another season. To do that, though, he recognized that his $41.25 million cap hit was untenable, and he asked the
1:20 PM ET In the aftermath of Chelsea‘s 1-0 win against Manchester City in the Champions League final on Saturday, American star Christian Pulisic was joined on the field by his parents. He was passed the trophy for a photo, and as he gripped it with both hands, his father, Mark, rotated the winners’ medal
2:59 PM ET One of the top players in the NBA’s 2022 draft class — French guard-forward Ousmane Dieng — has committed to become the first European prospect to join the New Zealand Breakers as part of the NBL’s Next Stars program, he told ESPN on Tuesday. Dieng, a 6-foot-9 playmaker, plans to join the
2:06 PM ET Associated Press The leaders of the four Grand Slam tournaments reacted Tuesday to tennis star Naomi Osaka‘s stunning withdrawal from the French Open by promising to address players’ concerns about mental health. The pledge came in a statement signed by the same four tennis administrators who threatened the possibility of disqualification or
10:25 AM ET Jake Paul‘s next foe will be a former UFC champion. Paul will meet Tyron Woodley in a boxing match later this summer, both Paul and Woodley told ESPN. The 190-pound match is currently slated for Aug. 28, sources say. Several host cities are still under consideration, per sources, though an official announcement
2:01 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The expansion of the NFL’s regular season to 17 games has quarterback Patrick Mahomes eyeing a new benchmark for the Kansas City Chiefs. Mahomes told Bleacher Report in an interview from his foundation’s recent fund-raising golf tournament in Hawaii that his goal is for the Chiefs to become
2:23 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars have hired Nick Sorensen as special-teams coordinator to replace Brian Schneider, who stepped away from the team for personal reasons. Sorensen spent the past eight seasons with Seattle, joining the Seahawks in 2013 as a special-teams assistant before moving to coach the secondary beginning in 2017.
1:39 PM ET Sarah Barshop HOUSTON — The Texans have signed running back Rex Burkhead, adding another veteran running back to a crowded backfield, a source confirmed to ESPN. Burkhead, 30, is the seventh running back on the Texans’ roster, joining veteran running backs Phillip Lindsay, David Johnson and Mark Ingram. Houston added Lindsay and
News Skipper reveals in-form batter has beaten Blundell, Young for opening spot alongside Latham Kane Williamson has confirmed that Devon Conway, the top-order batter, will make his Test debut in the first match of the LV=Insurance Test series against England at Lord’s. Conway, the 29-year-old South African-born player, has been preferred to Tom Blundell or
1:35 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN Atlanta Hawks center Clint Capela didn’t mince words Tuesday when asked about the physical nature of his team’s first-round matchup against the New York Knicks. Things got chippy in Game 4 in Atlanta on Sunday, with John Collins needing four stitches in his lip because of an errant elbow from
12:52 PM ET Florida Gators football coach Dan Mullen has received a three-year contract extension through the 2026 season that raises his annual salary to $7.6 million a year. The new annual salary will make him the third-highest-paid coach in 2021 in the SEC, behind Alabama coach Nick Saban ($9.1 million) and LSU coach Ed