Mark Fainaru-Wada, ESPN Staff WriterJan 11, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Investigative reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit since 2007 Co-author of New York Times best-selling books “League of Denial” and “Game of Shadows” Co-winner, 2004 George Polk Award Open Extended Reactions When Jim Tyrer first appeared on an Pro Football Hall of Fame
Heather Knight has urged the cricket community to lend its voice to the Afghanistan women’s team amid concerns that the group had been largely “forgotten” until a row broke out last week over the England men’s team playing Afghanistan at the Champions Trophy. England are due to play Afghanistan in Lahore on February 26 in
ESPN News Services Jan 10, 2025, 10:09 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — Domantas Sabonis had 23 points and a career-high 28 rebounds and the Sacramento Kings used a fourth-quarter rally to beat the Boston Celtics 114-97 on Friday night. Sabonis is the first player with 20 points and 25 rebounds in a game
Associated Press Jan 10, 2025, 10:18 PM ET Paolo Banchero missed 34 games, then came back and scored 34 points. The Orlando forward — back in the lineup for the first time after almost 2½ months spent recovering from a torn oblique muscle — gave his team a chance on Friday night, but the Magic
ESPN News Services Jan 11, 2025, 01:01 AM ET Open Extended Reactions DENVER — Denver‘s Nikola Jokic and Russell Westbrook made NBA history on Friday night, becoming the first pair of teammates to record a triple-double in the same game twice in a single season. Jokic finished with 35 points, 15 assists and 12 rebounds
Jan 10, 2025, 10:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The NBA has postponed two Saturday games — San Antonio Spurs–Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.com Arena and Charlotte Hornets–LA Clippers at Intuit Dome — due to the ongoing wildfires in Southern California. The league made the announcement Friday night, adding that the dates for the rescheduled
ESPN News Services Jan 11, 2025, 01:26 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, said Saturday that she disagrees with the WTA Tour’s decision to provisionally suspend her longtime coach, Stefano Vukov, and reiterated that she never made a complaint about him. “I always said that he never mistreated me,” Rybakina
Associated Press Jan 11, 2025, 12:42 AM ET Open Extended Reactions HONOLULU — Patrick Fishburn found some early momentum and Denny McCarthy overcame a sluggish start Friday, both winding up in the same spot — with a share of the lead in the Sony Open going into what figures to be a wide-open weekend at
Doug Greenberg, ESPNJan 11, 2025, 12:09 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Ohio State opened as a 9.5-point favorite over Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T, per ESPN BET odds. If that line holds, it would be tied for the second-largest spread in a CFP national championship game and the
ESPN News Services Jan 11, 2025, 12:10 AM ET Bill McCartney, a three-time coach of the year in the Big Eight Conference who led the Colorado Buffaloes to their only national football title in 1990, has died. He was 84. McCartney died Friday night “after a courageous journey with dementia,” according to a family statement.