2:34 PM ET Johntay Cook II became the latest prospect to join Steve Sarkisian’s emerging recruiting haul on Wednesday. Cook, residing at No. 43 overall in the 2023 ESPN 300, is a 6-foot, 175-pound wide receiver from DeSoto High School in DeSoto, Texas. He is the ninth player to commit to Sarkisian and Texas since
2:45 PM ET Valerie Loureda, a top women’s MMA prospect with Bellator, has signed a multiyear contract with WWE, she told ESPN on Wednesday. Loureda, 23, said she’ll move to Orlando from Miami and report to the WWE Performance Center on July 19. She’ll remain under contract with Bellator, the promotion told ESPN in a
9:30 AM ET American bookmakers and state gaming regulators are taking varying approaches to the upstart LIV golf tour, as it makes its debut in the United States this week at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in Portland, Oregon. LIV’s initial event took place in early June and attracted minimal betting at U.S. sportsbooks, but bookmakers
India captain Rohit Sharma is battling against the deadline to be available for the Edgbaston Test against England after testing positive for Covid-19 once again on Wednesday morning. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Rohit will undergo two further tests – one this evening and another on Thursday – before the Indian team management takes a final
Jun 28, 2022 Los Angeles Lakers star Russell Westbrook has exercised his $47.1 million option for the 2022-23 season to return to the franchise, sources told ESPN. Westbrook, a nine-time All-Star and the 2017 NBA MVP, is entering the final season of his five-year, $206 million contract. He had a Wednesday deadline on his option.
7:09 PM ET ESPN News Services ANAHEIM, Calif. — Angels reliever Archie Bradley broke a bone in his right elbow while climbing over the dugout railing during Los Angeles’ massive brawl with the Seattle Mariners on Sunday. Bradley will be out for at least one month, Angels athletic trainer Mike Frostad said Tuesday. Bradley won’t
4:50 PM ET The NFL on Tuesday announced David Highhill as vice president, general manager of sports betting, the league’s first position solely focused on overseeing its business in the legal sports betting industry. Highhill, who has been with the NFL for 10 years, moves over from the corporate strategy group, where he led the
11:49 AM ET Juri Vips, the driver cut from Red Bull’s driver programme for using a racial slur during a livestream, will continue racing in Formula 2 after his Hitech team said it wanted to provide the Estonian “the chance to redeem himself”. Formula 2 has reacted to the decision with dismay, saying it is
7:00 AM ET When Nyckoles Harbor was 8 years old, his parents enrolled him in a summer camp to learn how to play football. Harbor had asthma and hadn’t really played the sport, so his parents, Azuka and Saundra, were shocked to see their son excelling. “The way he was carrying the ball and running
8:48 AM ET Nelson Piquet has apologised for a racial slur he used to describe Lewis Hamilton and said the word he used has been taken out of the context he intended. A Formula One source told ESPN that Piquet, a three-time world champion, has been banned indefinitely from visiting the F1 paddock in the