10:11 PM ET Jamal CollierESPN MILWAUKEE — The Bucks lost forward Khris Middleton to a sprained MCL and responded with three consecutive victories over the Chicago Bulls, advancing to the second round of the NBA playoffs with a 116-100 win in Game 5 on Wednesday. The Bucks will play the Celtics in the second round;
Month: April 2022
8:24 PM ET ESPN News Services PITTSBURGH — Penguins CEO David Morehouse stepped down Wednesday, ending a 16-year run with the franchise that included three Stanley Cup titles. Morehouse did not provide an explanation for his decision in a release. The Penguins changed ownership last fall when Fenway Sports Group bought the club from Hall
7:45 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — A pair of childhood friends, Lucius Fox and Jazz Chisholm Jr., became the first pair of Bahamas-born players to appear in the same Major League Baseball game since 1961. Chisholm, a second baseman, led off Wednesday night’s game for the Miami Marlins against the Washington Nationals, who started
6:47 PM ET Outfielder Jon Jay, who played parts of 12 MLB seasons and won a World Series ring with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011, announced his retirement in an Instagram post on Wednesday. Jay, who hasn’t played since he was released by the Los Angeles Angels in March 2021, had a career .283
8:03 PM ET IRVING, Texas — One day after the NCAA announced president Mark Emmert will step down by 2023, several high-ranking leaders throughout college athletics on Wednesday agreed it’s the right time to find a new leader, but the position is as ambiguous as the future of the organization itself. “It’s a unicorn,” Pac-12
5:46 PM ET LIVERPOOL, England — Don’t be fooled by the narrow margin of the scoreline. Liverpool‘s 2-0 victory over Villarreal at Anfield was the most one-sided semifinal you are likely to see and could and should have been so much more for the six-time European champions. But 2-0 may well be more than enough
6:23 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Former National Basketball Players Association vice president Keyon Dooling, who is currently an assistant coach for the Utah Jazz, was arrested Wednesday and added to a criminal case in which 18 former NBA players were charged with illegally pocketing millions of dollars by defrauding the league’s health
7:36 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors superstar guard Stephen Curry is expected to return to the starting lineup Wednesday for the first time this postseason in Game 5 against the Denver Nuggets, sources told ESPN. The move comes a day after the team announced Curry would no longer play under
7:34 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — The Arizona Cardinals picked up quarterback Kyler Murray‘s fifth-year option on Wednesday, fulfilling the pledge general manager Steve Keim made earlier this year at the NFL combine. Murray, who was taken first overall in 2019, was set to enter the final year of his rookie contract, making him eligible
7:08 PM ET Phoenix Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker is progressing on a return soon, possibly for Game 6 on Thursday or a potential Game 7 on Saturday in the franchise’s Western Conference first-round playoff series against the New Orleans Pelicans, sources told ESPN. Booker has made significant progress with his strained right hamstring in
5:36 PM ET Associated Press MADRID — Former No. 1 Naomi Osaka enters the clay-court season with the goal of not being too hard on herself. Osaka, 24, made the final in Miami last month and will be playing as a wild-card entry when the Madrid Open begins on Thursday. “I’m trying to embrace my
5:25 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora rejoined the team in Toronto on Wednesday after missing the past six games because of COVID-19. The Red Sox have gone 1-5 under bench coach Will Venable since Cora tested positive before last Thursday’s home loss to Toronto. Boston is 7-11 overall.
4:40 PM ET Associated Press MUNICH — Danish teenager Holger Rune upset top-seeded Alexander Zverev 6-3, 6-2 Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the BMW Open tennis tournament. The 18-year-old broke Zverev’s first service game in each set to take control of the match on his way to his first career win over a player
5:42 PM ET Associated Press Fifth seed Frances Tiafoe overcame a resilient wildcard Nuno Borges 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-0 in the second round of the ATP 250 Millennium Estoril Open on Wednesday. A tie-break was required to decide the opening set, which the 25-year-old clinched 7-4, before home-favourite Borges fought back in the second to
5:12 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — The New York Mets‘ hit-by-pitch frustrations boiled over Wednesday when reliever Yoan Lopez threw a pitch near Nolan Arenado‘s head, sparking a benches-clearing brawl that led to Arenado’s ejection in the St. Louis Cardinals‘ 10-5 victory. Arenado reached base four times and drove in three runs before
5:15 PM ET Charlotte transfer Jahmir Young, a first-team All-Conference USA selection in men’s basketball, has committed to Maryland, he told ESPN. Young said he still plans to go through the NBA draft process, but he will head to College Park should he withdraw before the deadline. He chose Maryland over Georgetown and Miami, which
7:40 AM ET Mikaela Mayer Mikaela Mayer plans to be in an unfamiliar place, at least from a boxing perspective Saturday night: in the stands. The WBO and IBF junior lightweight champion is expected to be among those at Madison Square Garden in New York for the Amanda Serrano-Katie Taylor undisputed lightweight title fight (DAZN,
4:14 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State forward Andre Iguodala has been ruled out of Game 5 of the Warriors’ first-round matchup against the Denver Nuggets with a left cervical disk injury. He will be reevaluated in one week, meaning he will miss the remainder of the Warriors’ series against the Nuggets
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