Great Britain won women’s gold and men’s silver in the team pursuit at the UEC European Track Championships. Anna Morris, Josie Knight, Neah Evans and Katie Archibald beat world champions Italy by more than two seconds over the four-kilometre mark. Oliver Wood, Ethan Vernon, Charlie Tanfield and Dan Bigham lost to Italy, the Olympic champions,
4:45 PM ET Associated Press The U.S. Open has added the NCAA champion and Latin America Amateur champions to the list of exempt players, along with making slight tweaks to categories for players who don’t have to qualify. Some of the changes were due to golf coming fully out of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing for
4:20 PM ET Cecilia Braekhus is once again trying to become a two-division world champion. The former world pound-for-pound No. 1 fighter will face WBA junior middleweight champion Terri Harper in April in Sheffield, England, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn announced Thursday in Harper’s first defense of her belt. Harper, 26, won the title last year
Feb 9, 2023 Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Matt Murray is back on injured reserve with an ankle injury, the club announced Thursday. The netminder began dealing with the issue late last month and was eventually forced out last minute from a scheduled start against the Ottawa Senators on Jan. 27. Murray was monitored over the
2:57 PM ET Dan HajduckyESPN Close Hajducky is a reporter/researcher for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. A signed Kobe Bryant jersey, worn during his lone MVP season in 2007-08, has sold for $5,849,700 with Sotheby’s,
3:46 PM ET Every week, our own Luis Miguel Echegaray offers his latest thoughts from the world of football. You have the analysis; now comes LME’s commentary. Welcome to The Tap-In. This week, I thought a lot about the meaning of greatness. Well, if we want to be specific: the pressures of reaching greatness and
1:22 PM ET Ten retired NFL players have sued the league’s benefits plan, board of trustees and commissioner Roger Goodell as part of a class action lawsuit filed in federal court Thursday. The complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for Maryland, accuses the defendants of a “disturbing pattern of erroneous and arbitrary
1:59 PM ET The LA Clippers have acquired Denver Nuggets point guard Bones Hyland and shooting guard Eric Gordon from the Houston Rockets in separate deals, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Clippers are sending second-round picks in 2024 and 2025 for Hyland, sources said. Gordon is involved in a three-team trade that has the
ESPNcricnfo has learned that immediately after play ended on the first day, Jadeja along with India captain Rohit Sharma and the team manager, were shown a video clip of Jadeja’s actions. Pycroft, it is understood, wanted to just inform them about the incident and no charge has been laid against Jadeja.
1:17 PM ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Travis Kelce has an obvious bias, given that he’s been a teammate of Patrick Mahomes for six seasons. But the Kansas City Chiefs tight end said he saw Mahomes pick up his game this season after the Chiefs turned over most of their wide receiving group in a way
12:57 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Texas officials have more than doubled interim coach Rodney Terry’s salary to $1.2 million this season as he leads the No. 5 Longhorns after the midseason firing of former coach Chris Beard. Terry took over the team as acting head coach when Beard was initially suspended following
12:57 PM ET Right-hander Yu Darvish and the San Diego Padres are in agreement on a six-year, $108 million contract extension, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Thursday. The deal, which contains a full no-trade provision, starts this season and runs through 2028, when Darvish, 36, will be 42 years old. The average annual value
12:39 PM ET PHOENIX — Defensive end Brandon Graham is the author of one of the biggest plays in Philadelphia Eagles history — a strip sack on Tom Brady late in Super Bowl LII to help secure Philadelphia’s first-ever Lombardi Trophy with a win over the New England Patriots. Five years later, Graham is hoping
Feb 8, 2023 After a blockbuster opening weekend, Six Nations returns for its second round of fixtures this weekend. Winners of their curtain-raisers, Ireland and holders France go toe-to-toe at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin in what could prove to be a deciding match-up in the tournament. After their opening day defeat to Andy Farrell’s Ireland,
12:51 PM ET The Portland Trail Blazers are acquiring Philadelphia 76ers wing Matisse Thybulle as a part of a three-way deal with the Charlotte Hornets, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Sixers are getting Jalen McDaniels in the deal, while the Hornets are receiving multiple second-round picks, a source said. Editor’s Picks 1 Related McDaniels,
12:48 PM ET Veteran coach Charlie Strong, who was Miami’s co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach last season, told ESPN on Thursday that he would not return to Miami in 2023 after being passed over for the defensive coordinator job. “Coach [Mario] Cristobal and the program made a decision to go in a different direction. It’s
12:46 PM ET Jae Crowder, who was traded to the Brooklyn Nets from the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night, again was on the move Thursday as he was dealt to the Milwaukee Bucks, sources confirmed to ESPN amid multiple media reports. Crowder, who hasn’t played all season after agreeing with the Suns to sit out
9:56 AM ET Kyrie Irving, off to a successful start with the Dallas Mavericks, said he is happy that former teammate Kevin Durant also is no longer a member of the Brooklyn Nets. Irving told reporters late Wednesday night that he is “glad that [Durant] got out of there” just minutes after ESPN reported the