8:24 PM ET Grief-stricken players and teams around the NBA paid their respects to Kobe Bryant on Sunday in myriad ways as the stunning news of the former Lakers great’s death shook the league. Nearly every team playing across Sunday’s eight-game schedule — not long after it was learned that Bryant died in a helicopter
9:15 AM ET A total of 17 nationalities have been represented in at least one NHL game so far this season. Nine nations were represented at this weekend’s NHL All-Star Game. And while Canada remains the largest producer of NHL talent, the demographics of the league have shifted rather significantly in the past 10 years.
7:17 PM ET Graham HaysespnW.com Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. CORVALLIS, Ore. — Fighting back tears that had nothing to do with the history she and her team had made minutes earlier, Oregon senior Sabrina Ionescu dedicated her season to Kobe Bryant
7:36 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — Marc Leishman realized he had at two-shot lead as he stood over a 6-foot birdie putt on the final hole at Torrey Pines. He also knew Jon Rahm was the only one who could catch him. That made his final birdie all the more important. It
7:55 PM ET SAN DIEGO — While competing in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines on Sunday, a shaken and subdued Tiger Woods was unaware that Kobe Bryant had died. The news of Bryant’s reported death broke while Woods played the front nine, and his caddie, Joe LaCava, learned of the accident but decided
7:13 PM ET ORLANDO — Lamar Jackson headed to Orlando for the Pro Bowl with one goal in mind: Soak up as much as he could. That meant not the Central Florida sunshine (which finally appeared on Friday) but any and all information from the rest of the Pro Bowlers. Although he’s likely going to
7:00 AM ET MOSCOW — Last season, CSKA Moscow became the first team in KHL history to finish first in the regular-season standings and then go on to win the Gagarin Cup. Now they have a chance to do it twice in a row. At 32-10-3, Red Army has the league’s best record and an
6:42 PM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — John Altobelli, a highly successful baseball coach at Orange Coast College, was among the victims of the helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant on Sunday morning. Altobelli died alongside his wife, Keri, and his 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa, the family confirmed to ESPN. The three were traveling
6:42 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Madelene Sagstrom won the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, birdieing the par-3 17th to tie for the lead and winning with a par when Nasa Hataoka missed a 3-footer on the final hole. Sagstrom finished with a 2-under
6:04 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — What started as just another Pro Bowl quickly turned into a tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant. News that Bryant and his daughter Gianna were among several people killed in a helicopter crash Sunday morning in California broke shortly before the Pro Bowl game began. The players found out