12:50 AM ET ESPN News Services CHICAGO — The Bulls announced Wednesday night that forward Lauri Markkanen‘s season is over for precautionary measures while he undergoes additional medical testing over the next 10 to 14 days to determine why he suffered a rapid heart rate and fatigue during Tuesday’s loss at Toronto. The Bulls said
6:40 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Chicago forward Lauri Markkanen missed the Bulls‘ game Wednesday night against the Portland Trail Blazers after remaining overnight in Toronto because of what the team called “extreme fatigue.” Markkanen was evaluated in the training room by the Bulls’ medical staff and Toronto’s team physician after exiting in the
6:32 PM ET UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will make his next title defense against Thiago Santos at UFC 239 on July 6 in Las Vegas, UFC president Dana White told ESPN. The 205-pound bout will headline the pay-per-view event, which will take place at T-Mobile Arena. Additional sources confirmed bout agreements have not
6:00 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. — All it took were some beef-and-cheese taquitos and 10-for-$2 mini-tacos from 7-Eleven to seal National League Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom‘s $137.5 million deal with the New York Mets. OK, well, not quite. “I only had a couple bites,” deGrom said with a smile Wednesday at
9:36 AM ET As we inch closer to the NFL draft, this column details the biggest changes in fantasy value from 2019 trades and free agency. I’m in a weird draft. Having access to the coaches and decision-makers is a great way to gather information and answer some of the fantasy questions we have during
12:00 PM ET When the 2019 recruiting cycle was wrapped up in February, Michigan finished ahead of Ohio State in the class rankings for the first time since 2010. The Wolverines, sitting at No. 8 nationally, were eight spots ahead of the Buckeyes and bounced back from landing at No. 20 in the class rankings
5:17 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Good but unexceptional veterans must realize teams find them less valuable in the age of analytics, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred maintained ahead of season openers. Players have expressed anger following the second straight slow free-agent market, one that saw record deals for top stars and plummeting prices
5:28 PM ET Former Texas Longhorns running back Kyle Porter has transferred to Houston Cougars, the school announced on Wednesday. Porter, who played 27 games with the Longhorns, has two years of eligibility remaining and will be eligible this season after he graduates from Texas this summer. The Katy (Texas) High School product was the
4:18 PM ET Welterweight world titleholder Errol Spence Jr.’s shutout decision over four-division titleholder Mikey Garcia in a meeting of two of boxing’s pound-for-pound best generated more than 360,000 pay-per-view buys, a source with knowledge of the sales told ESPN. Spence, who retained his title for the third time, easily defeated Garcia, a reigning lightweight
4:35 PM ET I went on an international vacation thinking it was a good opportunity to relax before the NASCAR season got, well, seriously serious. But my confidence was a bit premature. All that happened was Kyle Busch picked up his 200th and 201st wins in the three NASCAR National Series, tying and then breaking