7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Welcome to that most glorious time of the year, when we gather with family, stuff ourselves with food and then ungather from that same family, angrily stomping off to our own private corners of the house because we refused to endure the treasonous slander that our supposed loved ones just
7:00 AM ET Alden Gonzalez Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Jesse Rogers Close ESPN Staff Writer Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Major League Baseball will look
The third T20I between New Zealand and India will be their last game in the format this year, and they would want to head into 2023 with more answers than questions. New Zealand’s inability to gain any momentum with the bat chasing 192 on Sunday further highlighted their lack of assertiveness in the powerplay. In
4:18 AM GMT Ireland flanker Josh Van der Flier has been named World Rugby’s Player of the Year, after helping drive his nation to the top of the world rankings through a stellar 2022 season. Van der Flier beat out Ireland and Leinster team mate Johnny Sexton, France scrum-half and last year’s winner Antoine Dupont
2:02 PM ET ESPN News Services Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard will be reevaluated in one to two weeks because of a Grade 1 strain to the soleus muscle in his right lower leg, the team said on Sunday. Lillard left Saturday’s 118-113 loss to the Utah Jazz because of tightness in his right
11:56 PM ET DALLAS — Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic swished a step-back 3-pointer from the left wing to beat the halftime buzzer, did a little shimmy dance on the sideline and briskly jogged into the locker room with his team holding a seven-point lead over the Denver Nuggets. Doncic and the Mavericks found out minutes
10:41 PM ET LOS ANGELES — San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich sat out Sunday’s 123-92 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers because of an illness, according to the team. Assistant coach Brett Brown, the former longtime coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, filled in for Popovich. “At this stage, I don’t have a lot of
11:43 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — Kyrie Irving returned from his eight-game suspension Sunday night at Barclays Center for the Brooklyn Nets against the Memphis Grizzlies, but it was Ben Simmons who was the star of the show on the court. Playing alongside Irving and Kevin Durant for just the seventh time, Simmons
2:16 AM ET LOS ANGELES — In mid-December of last season, after Anthony Davis suffered a left knee injury that would sideline him for more than a month, LeBron James immediately upped his scoring average to try to make up for the big man’s absence. James reeled off seven straight games of 30-plus points, and
11:15 PM ET NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving said he “never had a doubt” he would return to the team after serving an eight-game suspension for what the Nets termed the “harmful impact of his conduct” relating to social media posts around a book and movie that contained antisemitic ideas. Irving, who