8:10 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Roberto Clemente’s iconic No. 21 has been a fixture in Pittsburgh for more than 60 years. Its presence has only grown since the Hall of Fame outfielder’s death at age 38 on New Year’s Eve 1972 in a plane crash off the coast of his native Puerto Rico.
Month: September 2020
11:32 PM ET ESPN News Services The Atlanta Braves scored 29 runs against the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night, falling just one run short of tying the Major League record for most runs scored in a game. Adam Duvall‘s seventh-inning grand slam gave host Atlanta a 29-9 lead, which ended up being the final score.
7:30 PM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Los Angeles Lakers will have an earlier tipoff time for Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals on Thursday, a schedule change that couldn’t come soon enough for L.A. The Lakers will play the Houston Rockets at 7 p.m. ET, a welcome adjustment after having their
10:14 PM ET Five-time NBA All-Star Chauncey Billups has emerged as a candidate in the Indiana Pacers‘ coaching search, sources told ESPN. As the Pacers begin preliminary interviews with a number of candidates, Billups and team officials have recently engaged and are planning to talk further about the job, sources said Wednesday. Billups, 43, fits
11:39 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — For the second time in six games of this Eastern Conference semifinal series, the Boston Celtics failed to deliver a knockout blow to the Toronto Raptors. But after Toronto’s heartstopping, 125-122 double-overtime victory over Boston in Game 6 on Wednesday night, Celtics guard Kemba Walker
12:02 AM ET Andrew LopezESPN An exhausted Kyle Lowry was down to his final media question of the night. As he thumbed through his phone Wednesday evening, searching for a picture of the three stitches he received in his chin after taking a midgame elbow by Boston Celtics guard Brad Wanamaker, the Toronto Raptors‘ point
11:44 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Tim MacMahon Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Houston Rockets forward Danuel House Jr.‘s status
11:25 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — For many reasons — primarily the loss of NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard in free agency — the Toronto Raptors entered the 2019-20 season as the least-heralded league champion since the 2011 Dallas Mavericks. Bookmakers in Las Vegas set the line for Raptors wins at
4:22 AM ET Most footballers shy away from comparisons to the greats but not Harry Kane. The Tottenham and England striker has consistently judged himself against the two best players of this generation, and perhaps all-time: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. A reminder of this came in the first episode of Amazon’s “All or Nothing:
12:04 AM ET Associated Press Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez says the school’s football and men’s hockey teams are taking a two-week break from team activities as part of the school’s COVID-19 testing protocols. Wednesday’s announcement comes two days after Chancellor Rebecca Blank ordered undergraduate students to restrict their movements for the next two weeks