10:42 AM ET Wednesday is the first rest day of the World Cup and with that, a good opportunity to reflect on the individual brilliance we’ve seen so far this winter in Qatar. The final eight teams are set to battle Friday and Saturday, but with the Round of 16 meaning we’re past the midway
10:44 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Left-hander Jose Quintana and the New York Mets are in agreement on a two-year, $26 million contract, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Wednesday. Quintana will slide into the Mets’ rotation behind co-aces Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander. The Mets have already lost two
Dec 5, 2022 Nick DePaulaESPN After initially suspending its partnership with Kyrie Irving and scrapping the release of his upcoming Kyrie 8 signature shoe last month, Nike confirmed Monday that it has fully cut ties with the Brooklyn Nets point guard. “Kyrie is no longer a Nike athlete,” a Nike company spokesperson told ESPN. Irving’s
9:00 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — The locker room doors opened and music filled the room following the Philadelphia Eagles‘ Week 12 win over the Green Bay Packers. Players bustled about. Some laughing. Some dancing. Some shouting out profanity to no one in particular (Darius Slay, still mad he couldn’t pull in an Aaron Rodgers interception).
10:00 AM ET Alex Scarborough Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. Dave Wilson Close ESPN Staff Writer Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. We’ve seen this scene before
8:51 AM ET Paddy Pimblett made his UFC debut in September 2021. Two months later, the MMA prospect out of England traveled to the United States. Pimblett was accosted for photos in places like Times Square in New York and Yard House restaurant in San Diego. Fast-forward a little more than a year, and “The
Dec 7, 2022 Former IBF world champion Dee-jay Kriel has promised to entertain when he returns to the ring for the first time in almost two years, when he takes on Thembelani Nxoshe in an eight-round catch-weight fight at ESPN Africa Boxing 24 on Dec. 9. The former IBF world champion and WBC International champion
4:50 AM ET When DR Congo’s Emmany Kalombo and India’s Shiva Thakran square up for the IBF International Super Welterweight title in Johannesburg on Dec. 9 at ESPN Africa Boxing 24, both boxers will driven by personal missions. Thakran (25) and his manager, Brijesh Kumar Meena, view this fight as a chance to take the
8:50 AM ET The ATP on Wednesday fined Britain’s Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) £820,000 ($1 million) for banning male players from Russia and Belarus from this year’s summer grasscourt events ahead of the Championships over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Players were banned from the UK grass-court tournaments held in the build-up to Wimbledon, which became
7:54 AM ET Just one week on from the final round of the Formula One season in Abu Dhabi, and Mercedes’ chief strategist James Vowles was back at a race track. As if his day job of chasing on-track performance around the globe for 22 weekends a year wasn’t enough, Vowles took the earliest opportunity