7:00 AM ET The holiday shopping season is upon us, which means you’re undoubtedly searching for the perfect toy for the young ones in your life. The one they’ll lose their minds over for one day, play with occasionally for the next month and then will be shuffled under the bed with the rest of
5:06 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Cleveland Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco and Atlanta Braves third baseman Josh Donaldson have won the Comeback Player of the Year awards. Major League Baseball made the announcement on Wednesday. Carrasco won the American League award. He was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in early June, missed three
4:48 PM ET NASSAU, Bahamas — There was a light moment on Wednesday afternoon at Albany Golf Club when Tiger Woods made a point to let Justin Thomas know he had outdriven him, stopping dramatically to examine the younger golfer’s ball and then walking ahead to his own. Woods, 44 on Dec. 30, got a
4:40 PM ET After Andy Ruiz Jr. scored a monumental upset by knocking out Anthony Joshua to take his three heavyweight world title belts on June 1 at sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York, he came to the post-fight news conference wearing a New York Knicks jersey. It was a night that Ruiz, who
3:00 PM ET Middleweight knockout artist Edgar Berlanga and junior welterweight Josue Vargas, two promising Top Rank fighters, will box in front of their hometown fans on Dec. 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Top Rank announced their bouts on Wednesday along with the rest of the undercard fights that will stream on
8:00 AM GMT Durban Heat 197 for 4 (Hales 97*, Miller 40, Shamsi 2-37) beat Paarl Rocks 195 for 2 (Delport 84, du Plessis 66) by six wickets After three washouts and two losses in their first five games, Durban Heat have reeled off three successive wins, the latest coming in a high-scoring chase on
2:29 PM ET Right-hander Zack Wheeler and the Philadelphia Phillies are in agreement on a five-year, $118 million contract, sources tell ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Wheeler was considered the prize of the free agency class among starting pitchers for teams who didn’t want to compete in stratospheric bidding for Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strasburg. The Phillies,
7:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA season reaches its quarter pole this week, and a new world order has begun to establish itself. The Golden State Warriors are no longer juggernauts. The Los Angeles Lakers might be. The Zion Williamson Era … is on hold. But amid all the tumult that has defined the
2:01 PM ET BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield hasn’t thrown a pass since Sunday’s game at Pittsburgh, when he suffered a contusion to his throwing hand. Mayfield, however, said he plans to practice Thursday and is confident he’ll play Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals. “Mama didn’t raise a wuss,” he said. Mayfield
1:47 PM ET The Minnesota Wild will be without defenseman Jared Spurgeon for about two weeks, while team captain Mikko Koivu is considered day-to-day after both players were injured during Tuesday’s win over the Florida Panthers. The team said Spurgeon suffered an upper-body injury in the first period of the 4-2 win. Spurgeon, 30, has