1:31 PM ET The Atlanta Braves have been celebrating home runs with an oversized hat this season, but MLB is putting a stop to that. Major League Baseball has told the Braves they can no longer sport the oversized baseball cap to celebrate home runs after the league heard complaints from New Era, the manufacturer
Month: April 2023
12:16 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Robeisy Ramirez will make the first defense of his WBO featherweight title vs. Satoshi Shimizu on July 25 in Tokyo, promoter Top Rank announced on Thursday. The 126-pound title bout will serve as chief support on ESPN+ for the highly anticipated showdown between Stephen Fulton and Naoya Inoue for Fulton’s
Britain’s Ethan Hayter sprinted to victory to claim the second stage of the Tour de Romandie in La-Chaux-de-Fonds. The Ineos Grenadiers rider inherits the yellow jersey from compatriot Ethan Vernon, who was dropped on the final climb of Thursday’s 162.7km route. Hayter crossed the line ahead of title contenders Juan Ayuso and Romain Barde, while
12:14 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Joe Torre has won the third Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Baseball Digest. A star player during 18 major league seasons and longtime manager for the New York Yankees and four other teams, Torre was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2014. He was honored Thursday
Max Verstappen says he enjoys racing and winning and the money that comes from it – but could still end up asking himself whether Formula 1 “is actually a good life”. The Red Bull driver’s concerns stem from the ever-expanding schedule and F1’s trials of different formats, such as the revised ‘sprint’ in Baku this
10:59 AM ET Israel Adesanya says he suffered a Grade 1 MCL tear the week before his unforgettable knockout of Alex Pereira at UFC 287 earlier this month in Miami. Adesanya (24-2) revealed the injury via his YouTube channel Wednesday, including video of how it happened. The injury occurred when Adesanya’s leg buckled awkwardly underneath
11:30 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Heralded transfer quarterback Tyler Buchner, who left Notre Dame earlier this week, is headed to Alabama. He announced his decision on Twitter on Thursday afternoon. Buchner loomed as the best available quarterback in the NCAA transfer portal in this late spring football period, and his transfer is an attempt to
11:08 AM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Dick Groat, a two-sport star who went from All-American guard in basketball to a brief stint in the NBA to ultimately an All-Star shortstop and the 1960 National League MVP while playing baseball for his hometown Pittsburgh Pirates, has died. He was 92. Groat’s family said in a
Scotland’s track cycling world champion Neah Evans says there will be extra pressure on her to defend her title on home soil in Glasgow this summer. The Olympic, European, and Commonwealth medallist won the world title in the points race in October 2022. It was her first major individual title, which she will aim to
7:00 AM ET Connor O’Halloran LONDON — On a night when the Premier League title was being decided in Manchester, Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool were many miles away, both literally and figuratively. They needed to come from behind in east London to rescue their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League next season. Those hopes, even
9:58 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Aaron Rodgers did his new team a solid by restructuring his massive contract, allowing the New York Jets to execute the blockbuster trade without having to make significant moves to stay under the salary cap. Before the trade, Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers converted a $58.3 million
10:45 AM ET New York Knicks center Jericho Sims underwent surgery on his right shoulder, ending his promising second season in the NBA, sources told ESPN. The procedure, done Wednesday and considered successful, will require five months of recovery and rehabilitation. Sims, 24, is expected to be prepared for the start of training camp in
9:26 AM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Wild On Ice is out of the Kentucky Derby after injuring his left hind leg following a workout Thursday morning at Churchill Downs. The withdrawal allows Santa Anita Derby third-place runner Skinner into the 20-horse field for the 149th Derby on May 6. Wild On Ice was
Apr 25, 2023 Song Yadong meets Ricky Simon in the bantamweight main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas. The main card at the UFC Apex is on ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET, preceded by prelims on ESPN2 and ESPN+ at 4 p.m. Song (19-7-1, 1 NC) is coming off a fourth-round
Max Verstappen says the new sprint-race format will make the Azerbaijan Grand Prix “a little more chaotic”. The Red Bull driver said: “This track is normally quite chaotic and this will only make it more chaotic.” Fernando Alonso said it was “more challenging and stressful”. And Lewis Hamilton feels it is “the most exciting weekend
8:10 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Slovakian tennis player Andrej Martin was handed a 14-month ban Thursday for breaching doping rules. The 33-year-old Martin, who reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 93 in 2020, tested positive for the anabolic agent SARM S-22 at the Bratislava Open in June. An independent tribunal found that
7:00 AM ET We’re around the one-month mark of the 2023 MLB season, and while it’s still too early to be paying too much attention to the standings, five of the six division leaders are teams that didn’t win their divisions last year. We’re not even out of April yet and there’s a long season
6:00 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It’s impossible to know what the New York Giants are going to do with the No. 25 overall pick of the 2023 NFL draft (8 p.m. ET on ESPN, ABC, ESPN App) on Thursday. They don’t even know exactly what they are going to do. “I wish I
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