2:55 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com After missing the NBA playoffs, the Los Angeles Lakers‘ season has been over for more than two weeks and LeBron James has some free time. After averaging 30.3 points per games this season, the offseason is now for the Lakers and it’s time for a vacation. While it might not
Month: April 2022
3:12 PM ET More than 1,000 minor league baseball players have signed a petition requesting that Major League Baseball teams provide players with payment for spring training. The petition — organized by Advocates for Minor Leaguers and submitted to MLB on Thursday — follows a federal court ruling in March that said minor leaguers are
3:00 PM ET ESPN staff We’re tracking every first-round trade made leading up to the 2022 NFL draft, from trades that occurred nearly two years ago to ones that will occur the first night of the draft. They each play an integral part in telling the complete story of the NFL draft. Here are all
3:21 PM BST Spain have been disqualified from next year’s Rugby World Cup in France after fielding an ineligible player in two matches of the 2021-22 Rugby Europe Championship, the Spanish federation and World Rugby announced on Thursday. Spain’s disqualification means Romania will now qualify automatically and Portugal will go into a playoff for the
2:45 PM ET Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat have each been fined $15,000 for what the NBA deemed as “an obscene gesture” made by Butler in the Heat’s 97-94 Game 5 first-round closeout win over the Atlanta Hawks, the league announced Thursday. Late in the second quarter, amid a personal 10-0 run by Heat
2:15 PM ET Tiger Woods arrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Thursday and is playing a practice round at Southern Hills Country Club, the site of next month’s PGA Championship, sources told ESPN. Woods followed a similar plan before playing in this month’s Masters, his first official tour event in 14 months, after he was seriously
1:53 PM ET Associated Press MUNICH — Casper Ruud took his time finding his rhythm as he beat Alex Molcan 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals at the BMW Open on Thursday. Molcan built a 4-0 lead in the first set as Ruud struggled with his serve, but the clay-court specialist fought his way
The bare stats will tell you Arshdeep Singh just has three wickets in eight games at IPL 2022. It won’t tell you how well he has bowled at the death. It won’t tell you how he’s gone from being a 130s kph bowler to a 140 kph bowler. It won’t tell you the kind of
12:57 PM ET The Chicago Blackhawks are hiring Jeff Greenberg, formerly with the Chicago Cubs, as their new associate general manager. General manager Kyle Davidson confirmed the news to ESPN on Thursday, saying Greenberg will “help carry the Blackhawks into the next generation.” “It’s the direction I always wanted to go,” Davidson told ESPN, “To
12:48 PM ET Kansas City Royals shortstop Adalberto Mondesi has a torn ACL in his left knee and will be out indefinitely, team president Dayton Moore said Thursday. Mondesi suffered the injury on an attempted pickoff play during Tuesday’s game against the Chicago White Sox. The speedy Mondesi was off to a slow start this
1:12 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants have elected to decline the fifth-year option on quarterback Daniel Jones‘ rookie contract, a source told ESPN’s Dianna Russini. It would have guaranteed the team’s starting quarterback $22.39 million next season. The Giants did opt to pick up the fifth-year option on the rookie
10:48 AM ET Associated Press MADRID — Two-time Madrid Open champion Simona Halep and second-ranked Paula Badosa will meet for the first time in the tournament’s second round after opening with victories on Thursday. Halep beat Zhang Shuai 6-2, 6-3; Badosa defeated Veronika Kudermetova 6-3, 6-0. Halep won consecutive Madrid titles in 2016 and 2017
7:00 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen The world’s best male players are getting younger but, as the likes of Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland, Barcelona‘s Pedri and Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden make headlines every week, is it finally time to crown successors to the legendary Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo? 2 Related For the fourth
11:45 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN OXFORD, Mich. — A special delivery arrived at Oxford High School on Thursday morning, as former longtime Detroit Lions vice president of communications Bill Keenist met Oxford athletic director Tony DeMare inside his office to hand over a brown box as a gift from the team. Inside was the official
Dutch cyclist Amy Pieters has regained consciousness and can “communicate slightly non-verbally” four months after a crash in training. Pieters, 30, suffered severe brain damage after falling during a training camp in Alicante in December. After undergoing surgery, she was put into an induced coma and transferred to a Netherlands hospital in January. In a
9:35 AM ET ESPN News Services Atlanta Braves star outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr., who suffered a torn right ACL last July, has returned to the active roster, the team announced Thursday. Acuna, 24, had been rehabbing with Triple-A Gwinnett with a target return date of May 6. He played an entire game Wednesday, and was
8:00 AM ET As the Tampa Bay Lightning celebrated their second straight Stanley Cup championship last summer, my eyes were drawn to one player: defenseman David Savard. He had played 597 NHL regular-season games and 37 more in the playoffs before the Columbus Blue Jackets traded him to the Lightning at the deadline. He walked
8:00 AM ET Rob Font and Marlon Vera are mired in a deep lineup of contenders in the UFC men’s bantamweight division, each looking to separate himself from the pack. They have a chance to do so on Saturday when they meet in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. Font (19-5)
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