6:55 AM ET The Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers have combined to play in nine of the past 15 NBA Finals series — including seven consecutive from 2008 to 2014 — without ever facing each other. That is, until Game 1 on Wednesday, the first time the two teams met on the NBA’s biggest
Oct 1, 2020 The Brooklyn Nets named Steve Nash their head coach in early September, but stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant see Nash in more of a collaborative role and not as the head of top-down leadership. “I don’t really see us having a head coach,” Irving said on Durant’s new podcast, “The Etcs.”
5:39 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers are getting two big pieces of their offense back for Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles, will still be without two more and are about to put another duo on injured reserve. Niners coach Kyle Shanahan said Friday that tight end George Kittle (sprained
8:04 AM ET For the first time in Holly Holm‘s MMA career, she is accepting fights with no clear path to a UFC championship. From the moment Holm crossed over from boxing in 2011, it was almost certain she would sign with the UFC and fight for a title. And over the past five years,
9:00 AM ET Welcome to college football’s Week 5! During which we ask, “Is this really Week 5?” But it is. And even though we’ve just passed the mark into October, we already have a top-10 matchup in the 125th meeting between Auburn and Georgia, the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. It’s the teams’ first October
1:12 AM ET Long before Kobe Bryant grudgingly attended the Los Angeles Lakers’ free agent pitch meetings for Dwight Howard in 2013 and LaMarcus Aldridge in 2014, he identified a rare talent who could eventually want to inherit the mantle Bryant left with the franchise. Bryant was the elder statesman on the 2012 Olympic team
1:13 AM ET This is not how the San Diego Padres would have preferred to draw up their first postseason series victory since 1998. They played three games against the St. Louis Cardinals and their starting pitchers threw a combined six innings. They used eight pitchers in a Game 1 loss, used nine pitchers in
6:00 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen In April, I looked at the next generation of football stars; the top talents, aged 21 or under, who have shown the promise and ability to become the next household names. Tor-Kristian Karlsen is a Norwegian football scout and executive and is the former chief executive and sporting director at
7:36 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff England allrounder Ben Stokes is finally headed to the IPL from New Zealand, where he has spent the past month-and-a-half with his family. ESPNcricinfo understands Stokes will land in Dubai, where the Royals are based, early on Sunday. As per the IPL’s Covid-19 protocol Stokes will undergo the mandatory six-day
12:44 AM ET In 2006, less than an hour after Tony La Russa had won his first World Series as the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, he was greeted in the hallway at Busch Stadium by an iconic figure. “Bob Gibson just shook my hand,” said La Russa, who had won a World Series