Month: May 2021

5:39 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry is the NBA’s scoring king for the 2020-21 season. The two-time MVP scored 46 points in 40 minutes Sunday in a 113-101 win over the Memphis Grizzlies — a performance that not only locked up the season scoring crown over Washington Wizards All-Star
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4:17 PM ET ESPN News Services PITTSBURGH — The New York Islanders gave up quite a bit to acquire the services of Kyle Palmieri at the trade deadline. And though it took him awhile, he did choose the right time to pay major dividends. Palmieri’s second goal of the game 16:30 into overtime lifted the
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2:23 PM ET ROME — Rafael Nadal beat a tired Novak Djokovic 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 on Sunday for a record-extending 10th Italian Open title. The Spaniard recovered from a potentially dangerous fall after tripping over a raised line to take the latest installment of the most-played rivalry in modern men’s tennis. It also reestablished Nadal
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2:44 PM ET Mark KriegelESPN Tyson Fury has received assurances from Prince Khalid Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Saudi defense secretary, that his four-belt heavyweight unification fight with Anthony Joshua will happen Aug. 14 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. “I just got off the phone with Prince Khalid of Saudi Arabia,” Fury said in a video posted
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11:24 PM ET As the regular season comes to a close, each team has something to play for: seeding or draft picks. With the addition of play-in games to the 2021 NBA playoffs, the scramble for seeding is wilder — and more important — than ever, with almost every game down the stretch having significant
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8:06 PM ET Returning to Wrigley Field on Monday for the first time since departing the Chicago Cubs as a free agent, Washington Nationals starter Jon Lester is over any hard feelings he had upon leaving. Lester, 37, was never offered much in the way of a new contract with the Cubs before signing a
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