1:10 AM ET HOUSTON — Forget the final score. Jackie Bradley Jr.’s grand slam in the eighth inning Tuesday put an exclamation point on Game 3 of the American League Championship Series and the Boston Red Sox‘s 8-2 win over the Houston Astros. But the most riveting drama came an inning earlier, when an obscure
Month: October 2018
12:04 AM ET HOUSTON — The American League Championship Series is only three games old, but already it might have found its MVP. Jackie Bradley Jr., the Boston Red Sox center fielder who at one point this regular season batted .161, has turned the ALCS with two clutch, bases-clearing swings of his bat. One game
12:06 AM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — The Golden State Warriors celebrated Ring Night in style prior to their regular-season opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. In honor of their 2017-18 NBA championship, players, coaches and owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber received their rings from NBA commissioner Adam Silver. The players’ rings
11:10 PM ET Things have gone far from swimmingly for Jon Gruden in his return to the Oakland Raiders after spending the previous nine seasons in ESPN’s Monday Night Football booth. And Gruden addressed numerous topics in his weekly media conference Tuesday at the team facility, a day after the team returned from a disastrous
10:15 PM ET Major League Baseball said it is looking into an incident during Game 1 of the AL Championship Series in which an Astros employee was seen with a camera in the photographer’s pit adjacent to the Houston dugout. Jackie Bradley Jr. hit a grand slam, Nathan Eovaldi hushed Houston a day after some
9:55 PM ET Florida Atlantic coach Lane Kiffin is no stranger to offering young football players a scholarship, once tendering David Sills, then a 13-year-old quarterback, an offer to play for USC. Now, Kiffin has offered another quarterback a scholarship — this time an 11-year-old. Cole Leinart, the son of Matt Leinart, a 5-foot-7 sixth-grader,
9:37 PM ET Associated Press FRENCH LICK, Ind. — Laura Davies recovered from a pair of early bogeys Tuesday for a 2-under 70 that gave her a two-shot lead going into the final round of the Senior LPGA Championship as she goes for a second senior major. In slightly warmer weather on The Pete Dye
7:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN ANAHEIM — Adam Henrique has the battle scars from his years in the Eastern Conference, back when he was a popular member of the New Jersey Devils. Those playoff battles against the New York Rangers. Those chaotic nights against the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Islanders. Those rivalry games. His
8:07 PM ET Former Saints player Steve Gleason and his wife Michel welcomed a baby girl Tuesday in New Orleans. “Steve and Michel Gleason are happy to announce the birth of their second child, a baby girl,” Team Gleason associate executive director Clare Durrett said, according to NOLA.com. “All are healthy and happy,” Durrett said.
7:22 PM ET Former two-time world title challenger Miguel Marriaga will go for his second win in a row when he takes on Jose Estrella in a featherweight fight on Nov. 3 on a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card, Top Rank announced on Tuesday. The scheduled eight-round fight will be on the undercard of