9:45 AM ET Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora held a morning baseball clinic for a small army of youngsters in his hometown of Caguas, Puerto Rico, last month. Under the rising sun, Cora hoisted a microphone and introduced some friends from the big leagues helping him out, like Alex Cintron, who played nine years
8:00 AM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — After a half-season of anticipation, waiting to see when the Golden State Warriors might break out their newest weapon, DeMarcus Cousins is ready to debut. The former All-Star, who hasn’t played an NBA game since Jan. 26, 2018, is expected to make his highly anticipated Warriors debut Friday night
8:16 AM ET Former Oklahoma quarterback Austin Kendall has committed to West Virginia and is enrolling there to participate in spring ball with the Mountaineers, a source told ESPN. Kendall visited Morgantown on Thursday after Oklahoma relented and allowed him to be eligible for the 2019 season. The Sooners initially were blocking Kendall from becoming
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is open to selling Marouane Fellaini this month, with sources telling ESPN FC that Chinese Super League sides Beijing Gouan and Guangzhou R&F are targeting the Manchester United midfielder. Fellaini signed a two-year contract worth £100,000-a-week to stay at Old Trafford following the backing of former manager Jose Mourinho last summer. But
7:00 AM ET Tisha Thompson IT’S SNOWY AND 14 degrees below zero the day before Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. A man in a silver puffer jacket and a diamond-encrusted watch scurries into the NFL headquarters hotel and greets Drew Rosenhaus, one of football’s most powerful agents. “Things going smooth?” he asks. “Very good,” Rosenhaus
8:00 AM ET WHEN CORTRELLE JAVON Anderson begins to run, when he has his short and fat (his words, not mine) body headed toward the line of scrimmage, you’d be forgiven if you were momentarily alarmed by the idea that he intends to disappear. His shoulders hunch, his torso appears to retract, and his Doric
UEFA’s latest benchmarking report shows every European top-flight club being profitable but it doesn’t mean the game is in a good place yet. Each year, for the past decade, UEFA have released their “Benchmarking Report,” a sort of “State of the Game” across the top flights of every European league. As ever, it’s filled with
2:50 PM ET There has been a lot of horse-trading of depth forwards in the NHL this season. The latest move was the swap of Nino Niederreiter and Victor Rask between the Minnesota Wild and Carolina Hurricanes. It has been a couple seasons since either player was impactful for fantasy leagues, but it got me
7:22 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On one of the good days between treatments, Alyssa Crane made the 45-minute drive from her apartment in Parkville, Missouri, to the Kansas City Chiefs‘ training camp in the summer of 2015. She had just been diagnosed with cancer a few months earlier, was 24 years old, and
7:40 AM ET NASCAR Hall of Famer Glen Wood, who founded Wood Brothers Racing in 1953, has died. He was 93. Wood Brothers Racing made the announcement of Wood’s passing Friday on social media. It’s with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of team founder and family patriarch Glen Wood this morning. We want