7:00 AM ET The National League playoff race is a mess. If you like “Hoarders,” “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” or the finale of “Game of Thrones,” you are certainly enjoying this mad scramble of mediocrity in Major League Baseball’s senior circuit. With less than three weeks left in the season — and many
7:25 AM ET You’ve heard the maxim before: The NBA is a make or miss league. But it’s never been more true than in these playoffs. As the best basketball league in the world leans further and further into 3-point shooting, success from beyond the arc is increasingly deciding who wins the highest-stakes games to
12:58 AM ET Houston Rockets forward Robert Covington exited Tuesday’s Game 3 loss early due to a facial injury after colliding with Los Angeles Lakers power forward Anthony Davis. “I think he got hit in the nose, and he was bleeding pretty good,” said Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni, who did not yet know the severity
2:37 AM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — No player in NBA history has more playoff victories to his name than LeBron James does after the Los Angeles Lakers‘ 112-102 Game 3 win over the Houston Rockets on Tuesday. The win put L.A. up 2-1 on Houston in their Western Conference semifinals series and pushed
7:00 AM ET Anna Katherine Clemmons Close Anna Katherine Clemmons is a contributing writer for ESPN The Magazine. If you spend time with Oakland Athletics pitcher Liam Hendriks, you will quickly notice one thing: he likes to talk. And when he has a venti Starbucks in hand — possibly his third or fourth of the
7:15 AM ET The NHL’s 2019-20 rookie class provided plenty of fireworks over the course of a full regular season, but several of those players have really made an impact in the postseason. The long layoff between the regular season and the resumption of the postseason in the bubbles not only allowed players to rest
6:27 AM ET Before sports’ megastars won their 100th match on center court at Flushing Meadows (and she’s still on the quest for Grand Slam No. 24), made their NBA debut at age 19 after a stellar freshman season at Duke, signed the biggest contract in the history of sports (Hint: A 10-year extension with
11:47 PM BST England rugby captain Owen Farrell has been handed a five-match ban for an illegal tackle during Saracens’ defeat at the hands of Wasps on Saturday. Farrell, 28, received the first card of his career when he produced a high and reckless challenge on Wasps teenager Charlie Atkinson after the hour mark. Farrell
QUINCY AVERY, WATSON’S Atlanta-based private quarterback coach, began working with Watson his junior year of high school. “He’s not the loudest or the most boastful,” Avery says, “but you’re immediately gravitating toward his energy.” Avery’s father, Wendell, was a quarterback at the University of Minnesota, the former head coach at Savannah State, current receivers coach
6:40 AM ET In advance of a 2020 NFL season in which anything and everything appears to be on the table, it only seems right to put together our annual preview of how each of the league’s 32 teams could win the Super Bowl. It might seem wild when last year’s winner wasn’t exactly an