2:40 AM ET Pedro GomezMLB Close ESPN’s Pedro Gomez covered the Oakland A’s home and away nearly every day from 1992-97 for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee and then became the national baseball writer and later a general columnist at the Arizona Republic before becoming an ESPN bureau reporter in 2003. SAN
6:47 PM ET Harry Kettle The coronavirus pandemic made the transfer market unlike any before it, but there was still plenty of action on Deadline Day. With the window closed across the major leagues in Europe, you can check out the latest major completed transfers across the globe. Barcelona eye Premier League duo The Mirror
1:30 AM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — We should’ve known all along that Nick Saban wasn’t going to miss a day’s work. He has always appeared more machine than man during his time in the public eye — a creature of routine and process who’d barely done worse than sniffle during his six national championship runs.
1:10 AM ET Steve KimESPN We have a new lightweight king. At just 23 years old, Teofimo Lopez became the undisputed lightweight champion of the world by dethroning Vasiliy Lomachenko over 12 tense rounds inside the MGM Grand Confernce Center on Saturday night. Lopez becomes the youngest fighter to become a four-belt champion since the
12:29 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — The moment of truth came early, in the top of the second. The Los Angeles Dodgers scored three first-inning runs, but the Atlanta Braves followed by loading the bases with nobody out. Sports history is littered with moments like this — when the desperate team comes out hot, gets
1:18 AM ET For a man known for emphatic post-fight celebrations, a raised hand made a louder statement than anything else Teofimo Lopez has done in the ring. No backflip, jersey or Heisman pose could match one of the simplest acts in boxing. Lopez defeated Vasiliy Lomachenko by unanimous decision to win three of the
8:15 PM ET Nick Saban was back on the Alabama sideline after a COVID-19 scare and a false positive test earlier in the week, and his Crimson Tide are back on top of ESPN’s power rankings. Alabama carved apart a Georgia defense that had been suffocating this season with one explosive play after another and
1:50 AM ET Three weeks ago, Florida State coach Mike Norvell sat alone at home watching his team lose in embarrassing fashion to rival Miami in yet another dispiriting loss for a program searching for a way to turn a corner. Perhaps that is what happened Saturday against North Carolina. Playing with an intensity, passion
11:59 PM ET You come at the king, you best not miss. That’s a quote from “The Wire,” but there is a good chance the writers of that show stole it from Nick Saban. Saturday was supposed to feature a wounded Alabama. It was a week of turmoil amid Saban’s COVID-19 test that, apparently, was
12:31 AM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — The Houston Astros spent this odyssey of a season as baseball’s biggest villains. When Aledmys Diaz flied out with a runner on first to end Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, the bad guys finally lost. Ridiculed, roasted and ripped all year long, the Astros