8:25 PM ET DENVER — Major League Baseball is committing up to $150 million to the Players Alliance, a nonprofit organization formed last year and composed of active and former Major League players “aiming to build more equitable systems in baseball and increase Black representation throughout the sport,” according to a Monday press release. Commissioner
2:24 PM ET Los Angeles Angels two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani will get a chance to show off all he can do at this year’s All-Star festivities as the man seeded first in Monday night’s Home Run Derby will also be the American League’s starting pitcher and leadoff hitter for Tuesday night’s game. A first-time All-Star,
1:26 PM ET Associated Press Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email La Liga champions Atletico Madrid have signed Argentina midfielder Rodrigo de Paul from Udinese on Monday. Atletico said De Paul joined the club on a five-year contract. He had been with Italian club Udinese since 2016. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S.
2:03 PM ET Jozy Altidore was officially welcomed back by club side Toronto FC on Monday after being forced to train on his own for over seven weeks. In a Zoom call with reporters, the forward said he held no grudges against anyone within the organization, and warned that anyone who writes TFC off is
8:04 PM ET ESPN 300 linebacker Jaylen Sneed committed to Notre Dame on Monday. Sneed is a 6-foot-2, 210-pound linebacker from Hilton Head High School in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He’s the No. 97-ranked prospect overall, according to ESPN, and chose Notre Dame over Oregon. Sneed initially released a top five of Notre Dame, Oklahoma,
2:43 PM ET Tad Brown has agreed to become the CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils, both holdings of Harris Blitzer Sports and Entertainment, sources told ESPN. Brown spent the past 15 years as CEO of the Houston Rockets, where he was the franchise’s representative on the NBA’s board of governors. Brown
6:46 PM ET Associated Press Jamahl Mosley first got noticed as someone with NBA coaching potential when he was hired by the Denver Nuggets as a development coach 16 years ago. Also in Denver at the time: an assistant general manager named Jeff Weltman, now the basketball operations president of the Orlando Magic. And Weltman
7:27 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN Phoenix Suns assistant Willie Green has emerged as the strong frontrunner and the New Orleans Pelicans‘ choice to be the franchise’s next head coach, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Monday evening. A 12-year NBA veteran, the 39-year-old Green has been an assistant with the Suns for the past two
5:03 PM ET A commission set up by seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton to increase the representation of Black people in U.K. motorsport has delivered its recommendations to bring about change in the industry. Working alongside the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Hamilton Commission was launched last year with the aim of understanding why a
6:10 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — A New York judge was sympathetic Monday to horse trainer Bob Baffert’s claims that his May suspension by the New York Racing Association — after Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit failed a postrace drug test — was unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon at a Brooklyn