1:27 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — When Jachai Polite announced he was leaving the University of Florida for the NFL, he did so with a letter to “Gator Nation” on Twitter. In addition to the obligatory thank-yous to school, team and family, he vowed, “I can’t wait to prove to NFL teams that I
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9:00 AM ET Heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder (40-0-1, 39 KOs), coming off his contested split draw against Tyson Fury in December, fights Dominic Breazeale May 18 on Showtime. So we had an anonymous trainer assess Wilder — then let Wilder respond. TRAINER: Deontay Wilder is the rare fighter gifted with one-punch power. Unfortunately, it’s only
2:11 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Kyler Murray‘s high school résumé is a thing of football lore in Texas. Forty-two wins. No losses. Three straight state championships. Three championship game MVPs. Gatorade Player of the Year. “It’s unbelievable,” said Tom Westerberg, Murray’s coach at Allen High School. “We played at the highest classification in the
7:10 AM ET Yeah, your team has a quarterback. But for how long does it have that quarterback, and how sure is it that he’s the one? Some NFL teams are married to their quarterbacks. Some are just starting to get serious. Some are sitting across from their quarterbacks at a fancy restaurant blatantly eyeing
7:44 AM ET Malika AndrewsESPN MILWAUKEE — One by one, the Milwaukee Bucks players pulled into the garage in the team’s practice facility. It was Thursday, less than 12 hours removed from their series-clinching Game 5 victory over the Boston Celtics, and Mike Budenholzer had given the team the day off. Yet there was Giannis
8:50 AM ET Have you come down from the greatest second round in NBA history? Good. The Eastern Conference finals between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Toronto Raptors bring a clash between the two best players in the conference — Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kawhi Leonard, two of the superstars who have defined these nutty playoffs.
8:30 AM ET Holy smokes. What a wild lottery. That may have been the wildest lottery ever. The NBA’s new smoothed lottery odds raised the possibility of teams leaping from the middle toward the top, and boy howdy was there some leapin’ on Tuesday in Chicago. Here’s how it went down from inside the locked-down
7:56 AM ET FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — All the talking points are in place: Tiger Woods is coming off his first major title in 14 years. The PGA has moved to May, now positioned second in the major championship batting order. Bethpage Black is long. Bethpage Black will play even longer because it’s cold and wet.
11:30 AM ET FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — How quickly the questions change. Before the Masters, just a month ago, all the focus was on whether Tiger Woods was back enough to win a major. With that question answered, the questions shift to what can he do next, and who can stop him? As the PGA Championship
9:02 AM ET Every year at the NHL trade deadline, teams are forced to make decisions based on whether they believe a deep postseason run is possible. The Columbus Blue Jackets, for example, went all-in by trading for scorers Matt Duchene and Ryan Dzingel despite being on the bubble when the February 25 deadline rolled