1:36 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN ESPN presents the best player in the world of the week, celebrating the player that has the best stats, impact or storyline to earn the honor. To nominate someone, please email us here by midnight on Monday each week. Photos and context are encouraged! Anderson McDuffie We gave McDuffie, 10,
8:42 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” Mariano Rivera, the first player in history unanimously elected* to the Hall of Fame, is as good a player as anybody to be that guy. So too would have been Ken Griffey
12:10 PM ET Free agent infielder Asdrubal Cabrera and the Texas Rangers are in agreement on a one-year, $3.5 million deal, pending a physical, league sources tell ESPN. Cabrera can play all around the diamond and slot into a utility role if necessary, but the Rangers’ plan is to slot him at third base, the
8:32 AM ET THE DAY AFTER Christmas, the Los Angeles Lakers announced LeBron James would be “day-to-day” with a strained groin. After James missed weeks, his agent went on the record with reporters and told them it was actually diagnosed as a 3-to-6-week injury after the MRI on Dec. 26. Last year during the NBA
11:09 AM ET Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Gautam Gambhir believes that the likes of MS Dhoni and Shikhar Dhawan should have been asked to play first-class cricket before joining the Indian team for the ODI series in Australia, so that they could have hit the ground running. He
11:53 AM ET Phil MurphyESPN Video ESPN MMA analyst Chael Sonnen fought three times for UFC gold. “The American Gangster” breaks down deciding moments from the best finishes at UFC Fight Night: Henry Cejudo vs. TJ Dillashaw. Henry Cejudo defeats TJ Dillashaw by first-round TKO to defend his UFC flyweight title Henry Cejudo came right
9:15 PM ET ESPN NFL draft experts The first practices of the 2019 Senior Bowl are in the books. With one session down for each team, NFL draft experts Todd McShay and Steve Muench break down how the best prospects fared on Day 1, which under-the-radar prospects are rising and more. Note: Coverage of Wednesday’s
10:00 AM ET The Big 12 has two teams ranked in the top 10 of the recruiting Class Rankings and four in the top 40. The conference is smaller than other Power 5 groups, but the Big 12 has the fewest ESPN 300 prospects committed or signed to its member schools with 30. Comparatively, the
8:00 AM ET IT IS A gray mid-December afternoon at the Nuggets practice facility, and Jamal Murray spanks the basketball, punishing it as another shot rolls off. In 36 hours, Oklahoma City star Russell Westbrook will swagger into the Pepsi Center intending to impose his will on Denver’s 21-year-old point guard. Murray craves games against
12:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots have shifted their attention to preparations for Super Bowl LIII against the Los Angeles Rams, which highlights a dramatic U-turn from where the team was just a few weeks ago, in mid-December. Quarterback Tom Brady and other players identified a 17-10 road loss to the