News “What that defeat brought was a form of professionalism and accountability that we didn’t have back then” Megan Schutt has harked back to Australia’s shock exit from the 2017 ODI World Cup as the “kick up the butt” the team needed to create the kind of “professionalism” that has underpinned their dominance in the
8:22 PM ET ESPN News Services WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Washington Nationals fans have reasons to doubt 2022 will be their year. They got 29 more of them Wednesday. Pitchers Anibal Sanchez and Cade Cavalli allowed 10 runs each while the Nationals were shellacked 29-8 by the St. Louis Cardinals in a spring training
8:29 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Bruce Arians is stepping down after three seasons as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ head coach and moving into a front-office role with the organization, the team announced Wednesday night. Defensive coordinator Todd Bowles will replace Arians as head coach. Arians told ESPN he doesn’t see it as a retirement.
4:21 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Cavaliers star rookie forward Evan Mobley will miss at least the next three games with a sprained left ankle, an injury that could keep Cleveland from clinching one of the top six playoff spots. Mobley got hurt in the first half of Monday’s win over Orlando when he
6:20 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Three Georgetown players — Timothy Ighoefe, Tyler Beard and Jalin Billingsley — entered the NCAA transfer portal Wednesday, the latest in a series of members of coach Patrick Ewing’s team to leave the Hoyas. Ighoefe is a 7-foot junior center who averaged 2.6 points and 4.1 rebounds across
7:41 PM ET ESPN News Services WACO, Texas — Baylor standout freshman Kendall Brown and point guard James Akinjo both announced Wednesday they are entering their names into the NBA draft. The players revealed their decisions individually on their social media accounts. Akinjo still had another season of eligibility at Baylor, where he transferred last
7:00 PM ET Five men’s college basketball players were named finalists for the John R. Wooden Award on Wednesday, with Kansas junior guard Ochai Agbaji among the five standouts on the list. Agbaji, who will lead the Jayhawks in a Final Four matchup with Villanova on Saturday, joins Wisconsin‘s Johnny Davis, Iowa‘s Keegan Murray, Gonzaga‘s
6:48 PM ET Seton Hall has hired Shaheen Holloway — fresh off leading Saint Peter’s on its historic Elite Eight run — as its next head coach, the school announced Wednesday. Holloway, who will be introduced as the Pirates’ new coach on Thursday, agreed to a six-year deal, sources told ESPN. “Life has a way
6:53 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — California teen Anna Davis birdied the par-5 closing hole at Champions Retreat and shared the lead with Alabama sophomore Benedetta Moresco of Italy at 2-under 70 on a tough, windy start on Wednesday to the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Only five players in the elite field of
4:12 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Janibek Alimkhanuly and Danny Dignum will meet for the WBO’s interim middleweight title on May 21, sources tell ESPN. No location has been finalized for the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN main event, but the bout will take place in the U.S. Former 130-pound titleholder Jamel Herring, who lost his
6:09 PM ET Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Minutes after Albert Pujols smacked the first hit of his second act with the St. Louis Cardinals, he received a text message saying his wife’s brain surgery was a success. As Pujols was getting ready to make his spring training debut, his wife, Deidre, posted
6:06 PM ET Associated Press GOODYEAR, Arizona — Hunter Greene has cracked the Cincinnati Reds‘ season-opening rotation. The second overall pick from the 2017 draft reached 104 mph with his fastball in Triple-A last season and could be one of the most exciting rookies in baseball this year. The right-hander will pitch behind Opening Day
6:30 PM ET Cornerback Patrick Peterson announced Wednesday on “All Things Covered,” the podcast he co-hosts with Bryant McFadden, that he will be re-signing with the Minnesota Vikings on a one-year contract. “I’m gonna stay put in Minnesota and run it back with the guys. Keep it in the North,” he said, while donning a
5:08 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN PORTLAND, Ore. — For the first time in his career, CJ McCollum knows what the opposing locker room inside the Moda Center looks like. McCollum was a member of the Portland Trail Blazers for the first 8½ seasons he was in the NBA. After being dealt at the deadline, he’s
5:31 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Max Fried, who capped his 2021 season as the starting pitcher in Atlanta’s decisive Game 6 World Series win over Houston, has been named the Braves‘ Opening Day starter. The Braves announced on Wednesday that Fried will start against Cincinnati in their April 7 opener in Atlanta. It
5:14 PM ET Lawyers for the 25-year-old congressional aide who says Jerry Jones is her biological father blasted the Dallas Cowboys owner Wednesday, saying he “maliciously accuses his own daughter of extortion” and adamantly denying she is part of “a conspiracy to exploit him.” “Even more distasteful is that Mr. Jones has stooped so low
5:02 PM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print The Los Angeles Lakers have listed LeBron James as out and Anthony Davis as doubtful for Thursday’s game at the Utah Jazz. Both didn’t play in Tuesday’s 128-110 blowout loss to the Dallas Mavericks. James has been dealing with a left ankle sprain since
4:34 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN When asked directly within the past 24 hours if their teams are fully vaccinated, both the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers declined to comment to ESPN — opening the possibility that both teams could potentially be missing players in road games of a first-round playoff series against the Toronto Raptors.