Month: May 2024

May 24, 2024, 05:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Indiana Pacers All-Star Tyrese Haliburton has been listed as questionable for Game 3 of the team’s Eastern Conference finals matchup against the Boston Celtics on Saturday because of a sore left hamstring. Haliburton scored 10 points and played just eight minutes in the second half before
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Andreas Hale, ESPNMay 24, 2024, 05:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions UFC 303 has added another marquee fight. A welterweight showdown between the undefeated Ian Garry (14-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC) and Michael “Venom” Page (22-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) was announced Friday by UFC president Dana White. Garry, 26, is the UFC’s No. 7-ranked welterweight and
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Open Extended Reactions Former North Florida guard Chaz Lanier, one of the top available players in the transfer portal, has committed to Tennessee, he told ESPN on Friday. “I’m going back home,” Lanier said. “I was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to come back to my home state
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Jorge Castillo, ESPN Staff WriterMay 24, 2024, 05:21 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024. Open Extended Reactions NEW
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Associated Press May 24, 2024, 04:34 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CONCORD, N.C. — Chase Elliott criticized NASCAR for fining driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. $75,000 for punching Kyle Busch following Sunday night’s All-Star Race after it had used video of the fight on social media. It was the largest fine ever handed down for fighting
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ESPN News Services May 24, 2024, 03:46 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Baltimore Orioles held on to beat the Chicago White Sox 8-6 on Thursday night, with the game ending on a controversial runner interference call. The crew chief said the umpire had no choice but to make the call, but MLB says that
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Associated Press May 24, 2024, 03:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Saints president Dennis Lauscha decried “disingenuous and unprofessional” conduct by the state commission that oversees the Superdome in a new round of public sparring Friday over the NFL team’s withholding of money for renovations to the stadium hosting the
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Pete Thamel, ESPNMay 24, 2024, 02:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former Washington tailback Will Nixon is transferring to Syracuse, sources told ESPN on Friday. Nixon averaged 6.1 yards per carry for the Huskies last season and will have two seasons of eligibility remaining. His move east means that he will be united with his
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Mike Coppinger, ESPNMay 24, 2024, 01:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Sebastian Fundora and Errol Spence Jr. have agreed to a deal for a WBC junior middleweight title fight in October in Dallas, sources told ESPN. PBC’s hope is to stage the Prime Video PPV event at AT&T Stadium if the finalized date fits into
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May 24, 2024, 12:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Alexander Zverev thought his brother was joking when he was told he would be facing 14-time champion Rafael Nadal in the opening round of the French Open. Nadal, who has barely played this year, will be making his last appearance at the Grand Slam
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Field Level Media May 24, 2024, 01:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Atlanta Braves placed right-hander AJ Smith-Shawver on the 15-day injured list Friday with a strained left oblique muscle. Smith-Shawver, 21, made his major league debut Thursday and struck out four batters over 4⅓ scoreless innings against the Chicago Cubs. He gave up
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Getty Images 43 minutes ago Andrea Vendrame showed his staying power as he stormed to victory on stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia for Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale. The 29-year-old Italian slipped away from survivors of a long breakaway with 30km left of a hilly 157km run from Mortegliano to Sappada. Britain’s Geraint Thomas suffered a
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Associated Press May 24, 2024, 12:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — J.B. Bickerstaff didn’t do anything wrong to deserve being fired. The Cleveland Cavaliers just feel like they reached their limit with him. A day after Bickerstaff was let go despite winning 99 games the past two seasons and taking the Cavaliers
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ESPN News Services May 24, 2024, 11:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Chicago White Sox are already the worst team in the major leagues, so they didn’t need this: their rally Thursday night against the Baltimore Orioles being cut short by a controversial and game-ending runner interference call. The play resulted in a double
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