4:25 AM ET In what’s too early to call a complete collapse but too stunning to label a mere stumble, the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers are now slated to compete in the NBA’s play-in tournament with a little more than a week remaining in the regular season. Friday’s 106-101 loss to the Portland Trail
Month: May 2021
Prasidh Krishna played all seven matches for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the curtailed season of IPL 2021 © BCCI/IPL India and Kolkata Knight Riders fast bowler Prasidh Krishna has tested positive for Covid-19. Krishna becomes the fourth player from the Knight Riders camp to have tested positive after Varun Chakravarthy, Sandeep Warrier and Tim
May 6, 2021 ESPN’s lead Bundesliga commentator Derek Rae looks ahead to an intriguing Dortmund vs. RB Leipzig “doubleheader” over the next week, a pair of games that will play a huge part in the story of this German football season. Saturday, May 8 and Thursday, May 13: Circle these days on your football calendar.
4:52 AM ET Wayne Rooney knows his team will be relegated if they lose to Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday. Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images Wayne Rooney knows all about the high stakes and nail-biting tension that accompany the final day of the season, but nothing he ever experienced with Manchester United will come close to
10:02 PM ET With the addition of play-in games to the 2021 NBA playoffs, the scramble for seeding is wilder — and more important — than ever, with almost every game down the stretch having significant postseason implications. Here’s a breakdown of all the key games from Friday night and what the results mean for
11:00 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants turned their idyllic waterfront park into baseball’s biggest birthday bash Friday night as the team celebrated Willie Mays turning 90 years old the day before. Mays, baseball’s oldest living Hall of Famer, took a victory lap of sorts around Oracle Park before the Giants played
1:36 AM ET Who smells a rat? Or was it a raccoon? Is it a cover-up? Is there discord in the bowels of Citi Field? If there was, would anybody admit it? “First time I saw a New York rat, man,” superstar Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor said. “Crazy.” Um, what? To understand that and what
11:07 PM ET ESPN News Services CLEVELAND — Wade Miley pitched baseball’s second no-hitter in three days — and fourth already this season — leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 win Friday night over the Cleveland Indians, who were no-hit for the second time in a month. The left-hander was in control of a
4:57 PM ET Bellator has introduced the first interim heavyweight title in promotion history. Timothy Johnson and Valentin Moldavsky will face off for the Bellator interim heavyweight title June 25 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, the promotion announced Friday. The card will be dubbed Bellator 261. Current heavyweight champion Ryan Bader is competing in
12:07 AM ET Sergio Pettis is officially out of the shadow of his accomplished older brother. Using a technical and precise counter boxing game, Pettis outpointed Juan Archuleta to capture the Bellator bantamweight title in the main event of Bellator 258 on Friday night at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. Pettis won the bout via