9:38 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Houston Rockets center Clint Capela declared himself ready to return after missing 15 games because of ligament damage in his right thumb that required surgery. James Harden, who has scored 30 points in 31 consecutive games to tie Wilt Chamberlain’s second-longest streak, stressed in a sit-down interview with ESPN’s
11:23 PM ET Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Former President Barack Obama and Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry told a roomful of minority boys on Tuesday that they matter and urged them to make the world a better place. Obama was in Oakland to mark the fifth anniversary of My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative
10:00 PM ET Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko will defend his unified lightweight world title against mandatory challenger Anthony Crolla on April 12 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles after their camps made a deal on Tuesday night. The deal for the fight, which will headline a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card to coincide
7:00 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN When Shane Doan moved to Phoenix with the relocated Winnipeg Jets in 1996, he went from a Canadian-mad hockey city to a state with only three sheets of ice and fewer than 2,200 registered hockey players. The Coyotes‘ original home, America West Arena, was a state-of-the-art venue for the NBA’s
Tomas Repka returned to Sparta Prague after spells at Fiorentina and West Ham. Former Czech Republic defender Tomas Repka has been handed another nine-month jail sentence. The latest verdict comes less than two weeks after he was convicted of fraud on Feb. 7 and sentenced to 15 months in prison. On Tuesday, The Prague-West county
8:17 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Free-agent guard Jodie Meeks has agreed to a 10-day contract with the Toronto Raptors, league sources told ESPN. Meeks made a good impression on the Raptors in a workout this week, offering the Eastern Conference contender some belief that he could make impact off the bench with his shooting ability.
8:35 PM ET Emily Kaplan Greg Wyshynski Since becoming majority owner of the Carolina Hurricanes in Jan. 2018, Tom Dundon has been one of the NHL’s most unconventional owners. Look no further than the team’s choreographed victory celebrations, which have ranged from players competing in “duck, duck, goose” to human bowling. On Tuesday, Dundon continued
3:00 AM ET The NBA trade deadline came and went with its usual theatrics. We waited with bated breath to see who would win the Antony Davis sweepstakes, only to watch some delicious pettiness ensue by the New Orleans Pelicans, who were not about to let LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers grab their
7:19 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — In past offseasons, the Minnesota Vikings have doled out contract extensions ahead of when a handful of players’ current deals were set to expire. It’s the way the franchise rewarded the likes of Eric Kendricks, Danielle Hunter and Stefon Diggs during the 2018 offseason. Another Viking who could be in
7:12 PM ET Heavyweight contender Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller wasn’t much of a welcoming host when he met unified world titleholder Anthony Joshua on his turf for the kickoff news conference on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden in New York. The boxing big men will fight for Joshua’s three major belts at the famed arena