Mar 24, 2022 Nick DePaulaESPN Kobe Bryant’s estate has reached a new long-term contract with Nike to continue producing both footwear and apparel from Bryant’s Zoom Kobe series, Vanessa Bryant and Nike announced on Thursday. The news comes nearly a year after Kobe Bryant’s initial endorsement deal with Nike expired. “We’re excited to announce our
Mar 25, 2022 MEXICO CITY — There are too many times the United States men’s national team has walked out of Estadio Azteca seething, on the wrong end of a scoreline, to count. Usually it was because the visitors had been subjected to death by 1,000 passes, no match for Mexico‘s methodical possession game, and
11:36 AM ET Emma Raducanu has defended her commitment to the sport and hit back at “unfair” criticism following her shock second round defeat in the Miami Open. Following a mammoth three-hour match against Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniakova, Raducanu was knocked out of the tournament on Thursday. After the result, Raducanu faced some criticism on
Mar 25, 2022 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carolina Panthers general manager Scott Fitterer, less than a month after saying the starting quarterback job was “open,” on Friday said Sam Darnold was “in the lead for that job.” “We want him to take it and run with it,” Fitterer said. “But we’re gonna add a lot of
6:37 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carolina Panthers wide receiver Shi Smith was arrested Friday on charges of possession of an unlawful handgun and a narcotic with intent to distribute, according to Union County, South Carolina, records. Smith, 23, was released from the county detention center on a $5,000 bond for the drug charge and
7:45 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. We often hear that the NHL has some of the best rivalries in professional sports, and there’s nothing like a big rivalry matchup when both teams are in the playoff mix. As it
6:00 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — After Kansas City traded Tyreek Hill on Wednesday, ESPN’s Bill Barnwell speculated on social media that the Chiefs might reach out to the Baltimore Ravens about acquiring Marquise “Hollywood” Brown to fill their need for a speedy wide receiver. This line of thinking was not well received by
8:46 AM ET It’s like the old joke about buses: you wait hours for one, and then two come along at once. Except in reverse. Italy went 60 years without missing a World Cup and now, after Thursday’s 1-0 playoff defeat to North Macedonia, they’ve missed the last two buses to the biggest show on
7:00 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — At first, the baseball skipped into the glove of Josh Donaldson, but when it spilled out onto the ground to his right, he loudly formed a familiar four-letter word. Donaldson then returned to the deep crouch on a back practice field at the New York Yankees‘ spring training complex,
Tammy Beaumont says there is no question of England taking liberties against a Bangladesh team that gave even the tournament favourites Australia a scare in windy conditions in Wellington on Friday. However, she remains confident that her own team is peaking at the right time, after dicing with an early exit following three consecutive defeats