6:43 AM ET When the Cotton Bowl matchup of Oklahoma and Florida was announced (Dec. 30 at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN App), it was fun to think back to the meeting between these two teams in the 2009 Orange Bowl and the BCS National Championship Game. Dan Mullen was even on the sideline for
7:00 AM ET Ryan Hockensmith ON A SWELTERING Sunday in July, a 14-year-old basketball superfan walks to a mailbox in central Connecticut. He holds 14 letters and fans them out like a poker hand, before pushing them through the mail slot. Some are addressed to his favorite NBA and WNBA players. Others, to his favorite
7:15 AM ET The road to the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship in Edmonton has not been an easy one. With plenty of positive COVID-19 tests during the training camp process — some of which were later found to be false positives — some questioned whether the tournament would even, or should even, happen. It
Report Stand-in captain Peirson’s quickfire 69 was in vain as Strikers defended 17 off the last two overs Adelaide Strikers 6 for 150 (Renshaw 32, Bartlett 3-24) beat Brisbane Heat 9 for 148 (Peirson 69*, Briggs 3-20) by two runs The Adelaide Strikers have survived an extraordinary innings from Jimmy Peirson to pull off a
10:20 PM ET The LA Clippers had to cool their jets pregame while their in-arena rivals, the Los Angeles Lakers, received their last reward for winning the NBA 2019-2020 title — their championship rings. But they’d already picked up some pretty sweet swag of their own before they even set foot on the court. Small
9:42 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Jason Arasheben, aka Jason of Beverly Hills, waited 10 years for a chance to design another Los Angeles Lakers championship ring. And then when the jeweler got his opportunity, Arasheben had to turn the ring around in just four weeks, rather than the customary three to four months he
8:01 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Cavaliers forward Kevin Love will miss the season opener Wednesday night against Charlotte because of a strained right calf. The team officially ruled Love out on Tuesday, hours after Cavs coach J.B. Bickerstaff said he was preparing not to have the five-time All-Star in the lineup. Love got
11:59 PM ET Golden State Warriors rookie center James Wiseman lived up to the hype in his NBA debut Tuesday night. The No. 2 overall pick out of Memphis scored 19 points and grabbed six rebounds in 24 minutes during Golden State’s otherwise forgettable 125-99 loss to the Brooklyn Nets in New York. The big
9:22 PM ET NEW YORK — Ahead of the Nets’ season opener against the Warriors, Golden State coach Steve Kerr sat down to watch some film of his former player, Kevin Durant. He pulled up Brooklyn’s preseason game against Boston and took in Durant’s first competitive games since tearing his Achilles in June of 2019.
News “It’s one of India’s tactics to come at me, which is totally fine, I’m pretty used to having guys come after me” In the wake of Virat Kohli’s departure for India, the years-long battle between Nathan Lyon and Cheteshwar Pujara will take on still greater significance, after they teased and feinted each other in