6:28 AM ET Brazil‘s relationship with the World Cup is entirely binary. They have won five, the others they have lost — and there is nothing in between. On Friday they set out on the road to what they hope will be World Cup win No. 6, and their first in 20 years, with a
2:43 AM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — With 46 seconds left in Friday night’s Game 5 of the NBA Finals, arena staffers lugged bags of white and gold confetti onto the carpeted floor and set them by the baseline of the court. The celebration accessories turned out to be premature, however, largely because of
3:03 AM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — With less than 10 seconds left and the Los Angeles Lakers trailing by one, LeBron James appeared to be putting the final touches on a 40-point masterpiece to clinch his fourth NBA title. Draped by seemingly the entire Miami Heat defense, James, who led the league in
12:56 AM ET Steve KimESPN Emanuel Navarrete knocked Ruben Villa down twice early on in their bout for the vacant WBO featherweight world title on Friday night, and that was enough to earn Navarrete a unanimous decision victory and the belt. It made Navarrete a two-division titlist, and set the stage for a number of
12:47 AM ET Steve KimESPN Emanuel Navarrete defeated Ruben Villa by unanimous decision to win the vacant WBO featherweight title Friday night at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. Navarrete, a former junior featherweight world titlist, was able to win the fight on the strength of two knockdowns — in the first and
11:59 PM ET Shedding bubble wrap is a process, Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse has discovered. You try to unpack everything that transpired, and efficiently dispose of what you no longer need, but similar to when you receive a package in the mail and all those little Styrofoam peanuts disperse, some time later a couple
2:10 PM ET Two of the best grapplers in the UFC’s women’s strawweight division will meet in December. Top prospect Mackenzie Dern and former Invicta FC champion Virna Jandiroba have verbally agreed to fight each other at UFC 256 on Dec. 12, sources confirmed to ESPN. No location has been made official yet for that
11:55 PM ET Brian Ortega‘s most-tenured coach won’t be able to corner him for a huge fight next week. Rener Gracie, the well-known Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach and member of the world-renowned Gracie family, tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and was unable to make the trip with Ortega to Abu Dhabi, Gracie announced Friday night
11:10 PM ET We’ve gotten used to seeing the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series. The Tampa Bay Rays? Not so much. The Astros bashed their way into their fourth straight ALCS, the longest streak since the 1998-2001 Yankees. Houston scored 33 runs and hit 12 home runs in its four-game division series
6:47 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Jimmie Lee Solomon, a top executive for Major League Baseball under commissioner Bud Selig who established youth academies and helped launch the annual Futures Game of top prospects, has died. He was 64. Solomon was among the highest-ranking Black officials in baseball when he left in 2012.