6:47 AM ET NBA Insiders Nearly one month into the NBA season, what do we know about the 2019-20 rookie class? No. 1 pick and consensus top prospect Zion Williamson has yet to play a regular-season game for the New Orleans Pelicans, but there have been plenty of breakout players highlighting this freshman class so
Month: November 2019
6:19 PM ET New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom was named the NL Cy Young Award winner Wednesday, receiving 29 of 30 first-place votes. He becomes the seventh NL pitcher all-time to win the award at least two years in a row. Dodgers pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu received the one remaining first-place vote. DeGrom joins Randy
6:13 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan said they will retire after the 2020 US Open, closing a professional tennis partnership that includes a men’s doubles record of 16 Grand Slam championships. The 41-year-old American twins announced their plans at the season-ending ATP Finals, which they qualified for but decided
5:53 PM ET Aaron Pico‘s comeback trail will begin early next year. A bout between Pico, the once-vaunted mixed martial arts prospect, and Daniel Carey has been verbally agreed for Bellator 238 on Jan. 25 in Inglewood, California, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Pico (4-3) came into Bellator in 2017 regarded as the greatest prospect
5:40 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The Brooklyn Nets have signed Iman Shumpert, adding the veteran guard to their roster with Wilson Chandler on the NBA’s suspended list. Shumpert helped Cleveland win the 2016 NBA title and has also played for the Knicks, Sacramento and Houston. He returns to New York, where he
5:40 PM ET Former Cardinals and Dolphins defensive end Robert Nkemdiche, now a free agent, has been suspended for two weeks by the NFL, a source tells ESPN’s Field Yates. It was not immediately clear why he was suspended. The Cardinals released Nkemdiche, their 2016 first-round pick, in July, one day after he arrived at
5:16 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Gardner Minshew believes his eight-game run as the Jacksonville Jaguars‘ starting quarterback shows he can one day handle the job full time. His head coach agrees, but the rookie from Washington State is going to have to wait for a while because Nick Foles is healthy and back on
5:19 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Matt Tifft has parted ways with Front Row Motorsports to focus on his health after suffering a seizure at the track late last month. Tifft felt ill before practice at Martinsville Speedway and has not been in the car since his health scare. He said then that
5:04 PM ET Former UFC lightweight champion and featherweight title challenger Frankie Edgar will make his bantamweight debut against Cory Sandhagen early next year, multiple sources told ESPN. Edgar’s first fight at 135 pounds will serve as the co-main event at UFC Fight Night on Jan. 25. The card will take place at PNC Arena
4:25 PM ET Colin Kaepernick is a 32-year-old quarterback with 72 career touchdown passes, 13 rushing touchdowns, 30 interceptions and a Super Bowl start. But it has been almost three seasons since he played in the NFL, and during that time he has been more of a symbol and a lightning rod than a football