4:24 PM ET Alpine teammates Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon blamed each other for the collisions that will see them start at the rear end of the grid for Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix. Alonso, who is leaving Alpine for Aston Martin next year, twice made contact with his teammate on the opening lap of Saturday’s
6:40 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Cade Cunningham won’t be suiting up on Saturday night when the Detroit Pistons host the Boston Celtics at Little Caesars Arena. The Pistons announced the second-year guard will miss at least the next four games with left shin soreness. He will be reevaluated in a week. Cunningham also was inactive
4:42 PM ET Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball made his regular-season debut vs. the Miami Heat on Saturday night in a 132-115 loss. Ball had missed the Hornets’ first 13 games this season with a left ankle sprain he suffered in a preseason game back on Oct. 10. He had 15 points, six rebounds and
3:29 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant and his teammates still aren’t sure when Kyrie Irving will return to the team, but Durant says he’s been in communication with Irving recently and his spirits are “high.” “Looking forward to playing the game, you know Ky, he’s a gamer, he loves to
5:00 PM ET UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski will officially move up in weight to challenge lightweight champion Islam Makhachev for a second title at UFC 284 on Feb. 11 in a fight that could determine the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. UFC officials announced the lightweight title fight Saturday. UFC 284 will
4:45 PM ET George Russell says he and Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton will be free to race when they start alongside each other on the front row of the grid at the Brazilian Grand Prix, but expects the team to split their strategies to stand the best chance of holding off Max Verstappen in third.
5:54 PM ET On the day they activated pass-rusher T.J. Watt from injured reserve, the Pittsburgh Steelers lost Pro Bowl safety Minkah Fitzpatrick for multiple weeks when he was forced to undergo an appendectomy after their walk-through practice Saturday, league sources told ESPN. Fitzpatrick did not feel well at practice, and tests revealed that he
5:07 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Freshman linebacker Harold Perkins Jr. had himself a historic day in the No. 7 LSU Tigers‘ 13-10 win over the Arkansas Razorbacks. Perkins, a former five-star recruit, had 8 tackles, 4 sacks and 2 forced fumbles Saturday. He sealed the win when he stripped Arkansas quarterback Cade Fortin and the
5:52 PM ET On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took one giant leap for mankind and became the first man to step foot on the moon, and in doing so, he personified the will of the human spirit, offering proof that, indeed, anything is possible. For the next 53 years, nothing much happened. The Soviet
6:08 PM ET Troy linebacker Carlton Martial, an undersized former walk-on and sixth-year senior, set the NCAA record for career tackles on Saturday against Army. Martial entered the weekend 20 tackles shy of the previous FBS record-holder, Northwestern’s Tim McGarigle, who had 545 career tackles. Martial reached that mark in the third quarter. Listed at