7:49 PM ET With five days remaining in the fan vote for the All-Star Game, back-to-back NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant and reigning NBA MVP James Harden remain outside of the Western Conference starting five. Oklahoma City Thunder‘s Paul George remains ahead of Durant in the West’s starting five in the most recent fan voting
7:24 PM ET Yankees fans have been clamoring for an impact addition this offseason, and they finally got one: the guy who said he would strike out Babe Ruth every time. Last offseason, Adam Ottavino reinvented himself by throwing in a vacant Manhattan storefront, a former Nine West store that his father-in-law, a real estate
10:15 PM GMT Rugby is changing at such a pace that England head coach Eddie Jones is weighing up a new nine-forward system with Jack Nowell earmarked as one player capable of holding a dual playing role split between the forwards and backs. As Jones analysed his 35-man squad for their Six Nations opener against
2:32 PM ET The Miami Heat have fined Dion Waiters for publicly complaining for his lack of playing time this week. Waiters has appeared in five games, all off the bench, since returning to the Heat after missing more than a year with a left ankle injury. After the Heat’s 124-86 loss to the Milwaukee
2:21 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN TAMPA, Fla. — Steven Stamkos isn’t shedding any tears about the loss of the World Cup of Hockey in 2020, as the collective bargaining talks between the NHL and its players resulted in its formal postponement this week. “There’s just not enough time. We’re in 2019. It’s in 2020. With
2:13 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Free-agent reliever Adam Ottavino and the New York Yankees agreed to a three-year, $27 million deal Thursday, league sources told ESPN, fortifying an already-deep bullpen with a strikeout-happy right-hander who was one
2:00 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette has filed with the NFL a challenge to the team’s decision to void the guaranteed money in the final two years of his contract, a league source confirmed. An arbitrator will rule at a later date whether the Jaguars are able to withhold
1:34 PM ET CHICAGO — Cubs ownership on Thursday reasserted its stance that having suspended shortstop Addison Russell under contract for 2019 is not an endorsement for his having violated the league’s domestic abuse policy, but rather is the right thing to do for all parties. “The fact that we have decided — after talking
1:36 PM ET Among the many new rules that players are dealing with at the start of the new year is the one that allows them to repair spike marks or any damage in the line of their putt. Until Jan. 1, that was a no-no, and for some it is a controversial exchange, including
7:00 AM ET With Mariano Rivera still tracking at 100 percent in the Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, it’s clear that the Cooperstown electorate has settled on a couple of things. One is obviously that Rivera belongs in the Hall of Fame. But the possible unanimity in his selection also tells us that the once-hot