9:49 PM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t make a big move at the trade deadline, but they’ve got reinforcements coming: Dustin May, their top pitching prospect, will make his major league debut Friday against the San Diego Padres, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. May, 21, is 3-0 with a 2.30 ERA in five starts
9:57 PM ET BJ Penn is a UFC Hall of Famer, a former two-division champion who has had many glorious moments inside the Octagon. But those moments happened long ago. Penn, 40, has lost his last seven fights and has just one victory in his last 11 bouts, a skid extending back to 2010. When
With Nigeria finishing third in the recent Africa Cup of Nations, not a bad result though also not what Super Eagles fans were after, the lack of transfer interest in their players is glaring. Europe’s big leagues appear to have little interest in African football’s biggest team, and with the transfer window slowly closing, there’s
9:15 PM ET Heavyweight Chris Arreola, whose three stoppage losses all came in world title fights, is aiming for one more shot in the twilight of his career, but he said if he cannot defeat rising contender Adam Kownacki in their crossroads fight Saturday, he will retire from boxing. “No disrespect to anybody, no disrespect
9:16 PM ET NEW YORK — Yankees general manager Brian Cashman stood firmly behind his organization’s inactivity during Wednesday’s trade deadline, saying that despite his best efforts, he had trouble finding fair offers with the potential trade partners he spoke to in recent weeks. “We didn’t get close to anything,” Cashman said a couple hours
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was surprised to hear one reporter refer to the Community Shield as a pre-season friendly. Our banker bet won again in midweek and we also tipped Tottenham to beat Real Madrid, but Los Blancos failing to find the net in that one cost us a potential 4/1 winner. The EFL season
7:55 PM ET CHICAGO — Perhaps no team generated as much mystery in the days leading up to Wednesday’s trade deadline as the New York Mets. Would they buy? Would they sell? What did the acquisition of Marcus Stroman signify? After Wednesday’s deadline passed without another splash from the Mets, the answer seems clear enough.
7:42 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Brothers Andy and Jamie Murray have advanced in doubles at the Citi Open. The Scottish Murray brothers beat France’s Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-4, 6-7(7), 10-5 on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals. They rallied to win on their fourth match point. Former No. 1-ranked Andy Murray
7:00 AM ET The top of our preseason college football power rankings should surprise no one. Clemson, coming off a 44-16 throttling of Alabama in the national title game, stays on top, but the Crimson Tide are right behind at No. 2. The prospect of Clemson vs. Alabama, Part V is very real. Among the
8:00 AM ET ST. LOUIS — There’s an old saying when it comes to getting a job done: Don’t confuse activity with accomplishment. It remains to be seen what the Chicago Cubs actually accomplished at the trade deadline — that will be determined over the next two months — but they sure were busy. Their