Rob Dawson, CorrespondentFeb 17, 2024, 04:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City and Chelsea played out an entertaining, and at times chaotic, 1-1 draw at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday and afterwards both teams were able to take both positives and negatives. City showed the occasional vulnerability of their high defensive
Marc J. Spears Feb 17, 2024, 11:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — G League Ignite forward Ron Holland told ESPN’s Andscape at the latest taping of his season diary Saturday morning that he will miss rest of season out of caution to protect his injured right thumb. The elite 2024 NBA draft prospect
Associated Press Feb 17, 2024, 04:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — Tyrese Haliburton played a ton of basketball last summer as part of the team that USA Basketball sent to the Philippines for the World Cup. And he’s hoping to play a ton of basketball this summer, too. Haliburton didn’t hesitate when asked
Associated Press Feb 17, 2024, 01:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — A new honor is awaiting Miami’s Bam Adebayo: He’ll be an All-Star starter for the first time. Adebayo was announced Saturday as the replacement for Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid in the Eastern Conference starting lineup for Sunday night’s NBA All-Star Game. Embiid —
Mike Procter, South Africa’s legendary allrounder and their first coach of the post-Apartheid era, has died at the age of 77, following complications during heart surgery. Widely renowned as one of his country’s greatest players, Procter’s international career was cut short due to South Africa’s sporting isolation in the 1970s and 1980s, and he was
Connor O’Halloran Feb 17, 2024, 11:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Even as he was running through on goal with just the Brentford goalkeeper to beat, you never quite knew what Darwin Núñez was going to do. The Uruguay striker has been labelled an “agent of chaos” — a player capable of winning
Feb 17, 2024, 11:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Free agent outfielder Randal Grichuk and the Arizona Diamondbacks are in agreement on a one-year, $2 million contract that includes a mutual option for 2025, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal will pay Grichuk $1.5 million this year and has a $6 million option with
Associated Press Feb 17, 2024, 03:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Left-hander Tanner Scott beat the Miami Marlins on Saturday in the year’s final salary arbitration case, leaving players with a 9-6 margin in decisions this year. Scott was awarded $5.7 million instead of the Marlins’ $5.15 million offer by Robert Herman,
Jeff Passan, ESPNFeb 17, 2024, 12:07 PM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Open Extended Reactions The Kansas City Royals acquired right-handed reliever John Schreiber from the Boston Red Sox on Saturday for right-handed pitching prospect David Sandlin. Schreiber, 29, was a
Associated Press Feb 17, 2024, 01:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar — No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek won the Qatar Open for a third straight year on Saturday. Swiatek defeated No. 4 Elena Rybakina 7-6 (8), 6-2 in the final. Rybakina led 4-1 in the first set but cut her leg in her serving