Month: March 2022

11:44 PM ET ORLANDO — It’s a manager’s lot in life to be second-guessed. Decisions get analyzed to the smallest of details. Mistakes get highlighted. That’s especially true of international managers, with a country’s armchair coaches never holding back. Credit is due then to U.S. men’s national team manager Gregg Berhalter. Over the last week
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10:06 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka said center Robert Williams will get imaging done Monday morning after sustaining a left knee sprain in the second half of Sunday night’s 134-112 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves at TD Garden. “Don’t know exactly what happened,” Udoka said after the game. “He
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12:45 AM ET Albert Pujols is signing a one-year, major league deal to return to the St. Louis Cardinals, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez. The deal is pending a physical. Pujols, 42, played his first 11 seasons in the majors with the Cardinals, leading them to two World Series titles in 2006 and
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10:35 PM ET ESPN News Services PITTSBURGH — Mike Sullivan has spent the last five months praising his team’s resilience, so the longtime Pittsburgh Penguins coach expected a “spirited” response after watching his club get pushed around by the New York Rangers on Friday night. What Sullivan got Sunday against Detroit wasn’t resilience so much
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9:54 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — Atthaya Thitikul won the JTBC Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, three-putting for bogey on the second hole of a playoff to outlast Nanna Koerstz Madsen. After Koerstz Madsen’s 15-foot bogey putt hit the edge of the cup and stayed out away, the 19-year-old
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10:20 PM ET The Arizona Diamondbacks have agreed to an extension with Ketel Marte that includes around $51 million in new money, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan, confirming multiple reports. The agreement, which totals five years and is worth $76 million, covers two existing option years for 2023 and ’24 and also adds on 2025,
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10:27 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN WASHINGTON — When Draymond Green returned from his back injury on March 14 that sidelined him for 11 weeks, the hope was that the Warriors were getting back a major puzzle piece to their success. In the second half of his return game, Stephen Curry sprained his foot, making Green’s
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