8:36 PM ET If Jacob deGrom was rusty, he seemed able to shake it off pretty fast. DeGrom, the New York Mets‘ ace and two-time National League Cy Young Award winner, struck out eight over three shutout innings Thursday during a rehab start for the St. Lucie Mets, New York’s low Class A affiliate. He
7:37 PM ET NEW YORK — New York City basketball fans are excited about playoff basketball returning to Madison Square Garden — and they’re buying the tickets to prove it. The New York Knicks announced Thursday they’ve sold out their reduced-capacity tickets for Games 1 and 2 of their series against the Atlanta Hawks. The
7:46 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry are the finalists for this year’s NBA Most Valuable Player award. The top three vote-getters for each of the NBA’s major end-of-season awards — MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, Rookie of the
1:24 AM ET During an impassioned speech that took place in the middle of the season after a loss, Russell Westbrook told the Washington Wizards that they were going to make the playoffs despite all the injuries, a COVID-19 outbreak and losing streaks the team had to endure this season. On Thursday night, Westbrook delivered
8:22 PM ET Toronto Maple Leafs captain John Tavares was taken off the ice on a stretcher after taking a knee to his face. Tavares gave a thumbs-up as he left the ice. The incident happened in the first period of the team’s first-round series against the Montreal Canadiens. Tavares fell to the ice after
7:57 PM ET ESPN News Services The 2021 Copa America will no longer feature games in co-host Colombia after CONMEBOL decided on Thursday to move games away from the country after a wave of civil unrest. “CONMEBOL guarantees the realisation of the 2021 Copa America and in the coming days will inform on where the
8:15 PM ET Associated Press WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Wei-Ling Hsu shot a bogey-free 5-under 66 on Thursday at Kingsmill Resort to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour’s Pure Silk Championship. Winless in her seven-year LPGA Tour career, the 26-year-old Taiwanese player birdied the River Course’s two front-nine par 5s and made three in
9:30 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, South Carolina — Even before a tee was officially put in the ground Thursday morning at the PGA Championship, there was a certainty curiosity. How would the golf course play? Would the wind blow so much the best players in the world would spend the entire week just trying to
8:18 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — The scorecard yardage of 7,876 makes the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island the longest in major championship history. As daunting as it sounds, that is not the reason players in this week’s PGA Championship look so battered and bruised as they exit the premises. Sunburned and sullen, the
7:55 PM ET A huge heavyweight fight is scheduled for this summer, but it’s not the one that has been discussed for the past six months. After rumors of a heavyweight unification against Anthony Joshua, WBC champion Tyson Fury will instead face Deontay Wilder in a trilogy fight on July 24 or August 14 in