The comedian walks to his stage. It’s a late-night set, and he might have new material because he’s carrying his joke book. That doesn’t affect his confidence. He is ebullient and working his audience. “Get ready, get ready,” he says with a beaming smile, sitting down behind a microphone. The backdrop isn’t the stereotypical brick
9:21 AM ET Stephen Curry overpromises, Joel Embiid wishes for an old teammate and more from our best quotes around the sports world this week. ‘Whoop that trick! That is our game plan.’ — Stephen Curry, quoting the Memphis Grizzlies‘ playoff anthem, to Kendra Andrews. The Golden State Warriors would then go on to lose
6:41 AM ET NFL NationESPN Even though the 2022 NFL season is roughly four months from kicking off, it’s never too early to speculate about win totals — or to gamble on them. As far as the latter is concerned, Caesars Sportsbook released its initial projected win totals for each team for the coming season.
7:48 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN With a black cowboy hat atop of his head, Brian Castano stood in his locker room in dismay. The WBO super middleweight champion thought he did enough to win, and the overwhelming majority of the public agreed. Yet after 12 grueling rounds with Jermell Charlo for the undisputed 154-pound championship,
7:00 AM ET Anthony Treash One year ago, the NCAA made the ground-breaking decision to allow all college athletes to transfer without having to sit out a season. Not too long after, another colossal moment in the sport occurred when student-athletes became allowed to profit off their name, image and likeness (NIL). Those two changes
7:00 AM ET Texas Rangers closer Joe Barlow was skeptical about PitchCom at first. The electronic device, used to transmit pitch signals from the catcher to the pitcher in an effort to curb sign stealing, is brand new in Major League Baseball this season, and Barlow wondered what could go wrong. The PitchCom’s speaker made
5:38 AM ET Jean-Louis Leca will miss the last two games of the campaign after an altercation with his own coach. Photo by John Berry/Getty Images Lens goalkeeper Jean-Louis Leca will miss the remaining two matches of the Ligue 1 season after fracturing his finger following a training ground bust-up with his own coach, sources have
5:58 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United are close to adding Steve McClaren to Erik ten Hag’s new-look coaching staff, sources have told ESPN. United have already agreed a deal for Ajax assistant Mitchell van der Gaag to follow Ten Hag to Old Trafford and sources have told ESPN that McClaren will also be joining
3:21 AM ET DALLAS — For the second time in a span of three possessions, Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic drove straight down the lane and finished with a two-handed dunk. The top-seeded Phoenix Suns, trailing by 20 points midway through the third quarter of Thursday’s Game 6, called timeout, providing Doncic a chance to
4:01 AM ET Four times Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel said on Thursday that climate change had made him question his job as a driver travelling the world to race cars. Speaking on BBC Question Time, a television panel show mixing politicians and celebrity guests, the German was asked whether his position on the