8:00 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN ORLANDO, FLA. — PAOLO BANCHERO was only five years old when the SuperSonics left his hometown of Seattle to become the Oklahoma City Thunder. Still, despite growing up in a city without an NBA team, Banchero was raised by the NBA. Long before the Orlando Magic made Banchero the No.
8:27 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN After an outcry over the future of Army star linebacker Andre Carter II, politicians scrambled to alter the language of a recently passed Congressional bill that clears his path to the upcoming NFL draft. New language formally filed Tuesday morning in a piece of end-of-year legislation will restore the opportunity
6:30 AM ET NFL Nation reporters Welcome to Week 16 of the NFL regular season. Our power panel — a group of more than 80 writers, editors and TV personalities — has evaluated how teams are stacking up through 15 weeks. As we near the end of the regular season, the surprises are still coming.
Toss India chose to bowl against Australia India won the toss – for the fourth match in a row — and opted to field against Australia in the fifth T20I at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. India captain Harmanpreet Kaur said at the toss that Jemimah Rodrigues has been rested to bring in an extra
6:00 AM ET James Tyler Close Senior Editor, ESPN FC James Tyler is an ESPN editor for soccer. Bill Connelly Close ESPN Staff Writer Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Phew! The 2022 World Cup is over, Lionel Messi has that elusive prize and Argentina have bragging rights over the soccer world for
6:30 AM ET It has already been an exciting week in college football recruiting as we lead up to the early signing period for 2023 that starts Wednesday. Five-star quarterback Dante Moore flipped his commitment from Oregon to UCLA on Monday, and a number of transfer players have picked new schools to compete for a
7:00 AM ET It’s not an exaggeration to suggest we are in a golden era of shortstops. This past season, 12 shortstops reached at least 4.0 WAR via the Baseball-Reference measurement of the metric, one more than in 2021 and matching 2019 for the most ever. Before 2018, there had never been even 10 shortstops
5:36 AM ET Formula One drivers will no longer be allowed to make political statements at race events without prior permission from the FIA. Motor racing’s governing body has added a new article to its International Sporting Code that outlaws “the general making and display of political, religious and personal statements or comments notably in
4:29 AM ET Two Melbourne Victory fans who rushed the AAMI Park pitch, including one who allegedly hit Melbourne City goalkeeper Tom Glover with a metal bucket, have received life bans from Football Australia (FA). Saturday night’s violent pitch invasion at AAMI Park forced the abandonment of the A-League Men derby. – Stream on ESPN+:
3:04 AM ET Thousands of ecstatic fans gave Argentina‘s squad a heroes’ welcome in Buenos Aires in the early hours before dawn on Tuesday after the plane carrying Lionel Messi and his World Cup-winning teammates touched down at Ezeiza airport. The Argentine capital has been in party mode since their dramatic victory over France in