9:05 PM ET ESPN News Services BOSTON — Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown said he expects to be ready to go in time for the start of the playoffs after cutting a finger on his shooting hand. Brown told reporters Friday night before a game against Toronto that he cut his right hand picking up
Month: April 2023
1:04 PM ET DALLAS – All-Star guard Kyrie Irving and four key Dallas Mavericks role players will sit out Friday night’s home game against the Chicago Bulls, a game the Mavericks must win to avoid being eliminated from the play-in scenario. The Mavs announced late Friday morning that Irving (right foot injury recovery), shooting guard
2:42 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN METAIRIE, La. — New Orleans Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin said that Zion Williamson will not practice with the team on Saturday and would not play in any play-in tournament games next week if the Pelicans are still in the play-in. Griffin, speaking to local media
5:13 PM ET Lens are closing in on PSG at the top of Ligue 1 ahead of the teams’ showdown next weekend. SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images Clinical Lens beat Strasbourg 2-1 to provisionally cut Paris Saint-Germain‘s once double-digit lead at the top of the Ligue 11 table to three points on Friday and open up
3:53 PM ET Napoli moved three points closer to the Serie A title with their win over Leece. Donato Fasano/Getty Images Napoli took another step closer to ending their 33-year wait to win the Serie A title after they came away from Lecce with a 2-1 win on Friday thanks to a bizarre own goal from
6:54 PM ET Associated Press Ireland coach Vera Pauw talks with Sinead Farrelly during a training session ahead of the match against the USWNT. Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images The coach of the Irish women’s national team called allegations of weight shaming during her time as a coach in the National Women’s Soccer League “absolutely ridiculous
7:45 PM ET U.S. women’s national team manager Vlatko Andonovski said he’s “positive” that he won’t have his 23-player World Cup roster decided after two upcoming games against Ireland. The matches against Ireland — on Saturday in Austin, Texas, and again three days later in St. Louis — mark the final matches the U.S. will
4:56 PM ET Vincent Kompany has won promotion to the Premier League with Burnley in his first season as manager at the club. Alex Dodd – CameraSport via Getty Images Burnley secured an immediate return to the Premier League as they earned automatic promotion with a 2-1 victory against Middlesbrough on Friday. Vincent Kompany’s side sealed
7:54 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Second-seeded Ons Jabeur led the top seeds into the semifinals at the Charleston Open on Friday. No. 3 seed Daria Kasatkina and No. 4 seed Belinda Bencic, the defending champion, also advanced to the last four with quarterfinal victories at the season’s first clay-court tournament. Jabeur, who
AUGUSTA, Ga. — “I wish I could get this on camera!” Stacy Bennett made a woosh sound as if she was doing just that. In the foreground of her sightline sat Amen Corner, and just a few yards from where her feet were stood her son, Sam, on the 12th tee box ready to flight