7:29 AM ET The Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers — basketball’s two best teams at the moment — face off on Thursday in the premier matchup of the 2019-20 NBA regular season so far. What are the biggest things to watch in this game? Where are these two championship contenders weakest? And what is
10:32 AM ET The Milwaukee Brewers have reached an agreement with free agent first baseman Justin Smoak on a one-year, $5 million deal, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Thursday. The deal includes an option for 2021, the source said. The 33-year-old Smoak’s offensive production declined for the third straight season with the Toronto
10:20 AM GMT England prop Kyle Sinckler has said he doesn’t remember his team’s 32-12 defeat to South Africa in the World Cup final after he was knocked unconscious early in the game. The Harlequins player collided with teammate Maro Itoje in the third minute of the game while attempting to tackle Makazole Mapimpi. 1
6:20 PM ET The first day of college football’s early signing period is in the books, and there was a ton of movement in the class rankings from commitments and flips throughout the day. To analyze what happened on Wednesday, we will go through the winners and the teams that missed out to start the
9:00 AM ET There’s a lot of ground to cover in a single year in college football. There’s bowl season, the College Football Playoff, then that long, sad time when there’s no football. Then those hot summer practice-report days give way to talking season, then the fall comes and the rivalries start and the jabs
9:22 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Navdeep Saini is in line to make his ODI debut after replacing the injured Deepak Chahar for the decider of the three-match ODI series in Cuttack on December 22. Chahar “felt mild pain in his lower back” after the second ODI in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday, according to the BCCI. “The
4:09 AM ET Associated Press Lucas Herbert and Brett Rankin shared the first-round lead at the Australian PGA Championship after carding 5-under 67s on Thursday at Royal Pines. The Australian pair were one clear of a group of five players including New Zealander Ryan Chisnall, while Adam Scott and Stewart Cink were three back after
3:06 AM ET British Open champion Shane Lowry will take part in next month’s rescheduled Hong Kong Open, which was postponed due to violence from escalating anti-government protests, organisers of the golf tournament have said. Originally scheduled to be held from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1, the tournament will now take place at Hong Kong
12:52 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers entered Wednesday night as the only unbeaten team at home in the NBA. It turned out, however, the Miami Heat had just the thing to trip the Sixers up: zone defense. Miami employed the zone liberally Wednesday night, using it on 39 possessions, per Second
9:51 PM ET For the past seven months Jarrett Hurd has kept a low profile in the aftermath of his first defeat, which seemed to take a far greater toll on him mentally than physically. In May, Accokeek, Maryland’s Hurd entered the ring in front of a home region crowd a half-hour away in Fairfax,