Month: March 2023

10:43 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” MIAMI — At the bottom of the billion-dollar lineup that sent Team USA to the finals of the World Baseball Classic with a 14-2 thumping of Cuba on Sunday night resides the
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9:30 PM ET ESPN staff Week 5 of the XFL season brought many big plays and one big upset. The Houston Roughnecks were handed their first loss of the season, falling 21-14 to the Seattle Sea Dragons on Thursday night. Now the DC Defenders stand as the lone undefeated team in the league after beating
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2:01 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Starting the day out of the playoff picture with only 11 games remaining in the regular season, the Los Angeles Lakers got a jolt from a player whose all-out approach matched what the team’s situation required. Austin Reaves scored a career-high 35 points — including the Lakers’ last 10
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10:03 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Defenseman K’Andre Miller had two goals and two assists in New York’s six-goal first period, Jaroslav Halak made 22 saves for his first shutout of the season, and the Rangers beat the Nashville Predators 7-0 on Sunday night. Artemi Panarin had a goal and two assists in
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7:10 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Taylor Moore was never really the star attraction Sunday at the Valspar Championship until he had finished hitting all the right shots and posed with the trophy for his first PGA Tour title, which sends him to the Masters. Adam Schenk and Jordan Spieth provided enough
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7:04 PM ET Wisconsin upset No. 1 seed Ohio State in the NCAA hockey national title game in Duluth, Minnesota, on Sunday, capturing an unprecedented seventh championship at the Women’s Frozen Four with a 1-0 victory. Freshman forward Kirsten Simms’ first-period goal stood up as the game winner thanks to a 31-save performance from redshirt
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8:45 PM ET ESPN News Services INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Carlos Alcaraz defeated Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday to win the BNP Paribas Open title and regain the world’s No. 1 ranking. The 19-year-old Spaniard will move from second to first in the ATP Tour rankings on Monday, displacing Novak Djokovic. The Serb withdrew
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