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12:53 AM ET ESPN News Services SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was ejected from a playoff game after stomping on the chest of Sacramento Kings forward Domantas Sabonis. The play happened in the fourth quarter of Game 2 of the first-round playoff series Monday night after Stephen Curry grabbed a defensive

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff It’s NFL draft month, which means you’ll be hearing a lot of comps for the top prospects in the 2023 class. These matches are typically based on the way prospects play the game, their physical measurements, their production, their versatility and role, similar traits or some combination of those lines

7:15 AM ET ESPN staff College football‘s transfer portal is now open for the next 15 days. More than 6,000 NCAA football players have entered the portal since the beginning of the 2022 season, including 2,179 last December alone — the most of any month since the transfer portal was created in fall 2018. The

8:00 AM ET Ryan S. Clark Close Ryan S. Clark NHL reporter Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Kristen Shilton Close Kristen Shilton ESPN NHL reporter Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. The 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs are upon us. While the Boston Bruins set all sorts of records

Apr 14, 2022 The meeting that took place in Branch Rickey’s office on Montague Street in Brooklyn in late August of 1945 has obtained an almost apocryphal status. Dodgers scout Clyde Sukeforth had met up with Jackie Robinson in Toledo, and the two traveled together to New York to meet the Dodgers’ general manager. Sukeforth

11:11 AM ET Ian DarkeESPN.com writer Close Darke, who called games for the network during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is ESPN lead soccer voice in the United States. He has covered the Barclays Premier League and the Champions League since 1982, and has one of the world’s most recognizable soccer voices.

2:00 PM ET Associated Press Chase Elliott won’t stop snowboarding or participating in any of the other off-track activities he enjoys, even after an accident in Colorado sidelined NASCAR’s most popular driver with a broken leg. Elliott will return this weekend at Martinsville Speedway after missing six Cup races with a broken left tibia that

7:57 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN “This is going to be the hardest thing I’ve ever done.” That’s a sentiment one might expect from a fighter who has worked his way up from lower-tier MMA promotions and is about to debut among the sport’s elite in the UFC. But the career journey of Shane Burgos is

7:31 AM BST Michael Hooper is flirting with a career change, move abroad, an Olympic rugby sevens stint and even joking of a code switch as the Wallabies star weighs up his next move. The most-capped Australian skipper is off contract beyond this year’s Rugby World Cup and is adamant he has no idea what

Jon Rahm arrived at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, on Tuesday with a second major championship victory and a new green jacket. The new Masters champion admits it’s going to be difficult to refocus after a marathon week at Augusta National Golf Club. That’s life in the new era of designated events on the PGA

12:45 PM ET Two of the biggest personalities in combat sports will clash this summer. YouTuber-turned-prizefighter Jake Paul and ex-UFC bad boy Nate Diaz will compete in a boxing match Aug. 5 at American Airlines Center in Dallas, officials told ESPN on Wednesday. The bout will be contested at 185 pounds and is contracted for

1:18 PM ET Associated Press MONACO — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic looked rusty as he started his clay-court season with a 7-6 (5), 6-2 win against qualifier Ivan Gakhov at the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday. The two-time Monte Carlo champion had not played since losing to Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals of the Dubai Championships

7:00 AM ET NBA insiders The regular season has come to an end, but there are still key seedings being fought for ahead of the 2023 NBA playoffs. The play-in tournament is in its third year and will feature perhaps the most high-stakes matchups in its existence. Editor’s Picks 2 Related In the Eastern Conference,

6:15 AM ET Simultaneously, Bijan Robinson is both one of the least controversial and most controversial prospects in the 2023 NFL draft. After a sterling career at Texas, just about everybody agrees Robinson is an excellent running back and one of the best players, independent of position, in this class. He ranks No. 9 overall

6:15 AM ET EVERY SO OFTEN, North Dakota State offensive tackle Cody Mauch will hear from Kendrick Lenzen, his childhood friend and former grade school teammate, via FaceTime. “He’ll be like, ‘Hey, give me a smile,'” Mauch said. “It’s like he’s admiring his work.” Lenzen is responsible for what might become the most recognizable gap-tooth

10:15 AM ET Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti AUGUSTA, Ga. — The 87th edition of the Masters delivered all of the storylines we wanted to see at Augusta National Golf Club this past

9:15 PM ET ESPN staff The Boston Bruins set an NHL record for wins with their 63rd victory of the season Sunday against the Philadelphia Flyers. With two games remaining, the Bruins need just one more point to tie the record for most points in a season (132 by the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens) and two

6:41 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Practical Move held off Japan’s Mandarin Hero by a nose to win the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on Saturday, solidifying his status as a top contender in next month’s Kentucky Derby. Ridden by Ramon Vazquez, Practical Move ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:48.69. Sent off as the

1:52 PM ET Cody Ware will not compete in Sunday night’s NASCAR Cup Series dirt race at Bristol Motor Speedway because of a personal matter, his team announced. Matt Crafton will replace Ware behind the wheel of the No. 51 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang for the Food City Dirt Race. Ware, 27, is currently

9:03 AM ET ESPN’s lead Bundesliga commentator Derek Rae says there are significant question marks hovering over both Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund in the title race after ignominious DFB-Pokal exits in midweek. The Pokal in Germany is not, as with cup competitions in many other countries, a trifling inconvenience. Invariably the latter stages feature

9:24 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim There is no such thing as being down to your last chance in mixed martial arts. Just about everyone in the sport loses at some point, and even a multifight skid doesn’t necessarily deposit you at the end of the road. Unlike in boxing, where the zero in the “L”

7:00 AM ET We’re one week into the 2023 season and there’s been plenty of excitement from the impact of all the new rules to Aaron Judge continuing last season’s home run tear to the Rays being the only team still undefeated through seven days of play. Is your favorite team off to a hot

9:50 PM BST Liam Napier It used to be an area with an embarrassment of riches for New Zealand, with powerful, dashing wings, dominant throughout Super Rugby. But with less than six months until Rugby World Cup and with the news of Sevu Reece’s year ending injury, Ian Foster’s cupboard is looking, if not exactly

AUGUSTA, Ga. — AS RORY MCILROY started his pre-Masters news conference on Tuesday, he glanced to the side at a video board, which featured a photo of him triumphantly raising his arms after he chipped in from a bunker on the 72nd hole of the 2022 tournament. It was the final shot of McIlroy’s latest

7:53 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Anthony Joshua is unlikely to regain the aura and dominance of his first reign as heavyweight world champion, but don’t rule him out of

10:29 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — As Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins returns to his team after a 51-day absence, he hopes his return to the basketball court will follow soon after. “I don’t think it will be too long before I am out there,” Wiggins said in his first time speaking

6:34 AM ET Rafael Nadal will miss next week’s Monte Carlo Masters tournament having failed to recover in time from an injury that has sidelined him for months, he said Tuesday, shortly before top-10 players Carlos Alcaraz and Felix Auger-Aliassime also pulled out of the tournament.. Nadal was forced to skip the Masters 1000 event

11:25 AM ET Georgia defensive tackle Jalen Carter is declining visits with any teams selecting outside the top 10 in this month’s NFL draft, agent Drew Rosenhaus told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Carter is scheduled to visit the Chicago Bears, who will pick ninth, on Monday. It will be his second visit after previously visiting the

7:59 PM ET Associated Press Kyle Larson spent the week watching videos of his 10-win, 2021 championship season, he said, “to remind myself that I used to be good.” He still is. Larson pulled away on a restart with 14 laps to go and easily won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway on

2:08 PM ET Adam Brown Manchester United suffered a second straight Premier League away defeat on Sunday as they lost 2-0 to Newcastle United at St. James’ Park. The away side were on the back foot early on as Newcastle took control of the midfield, and it wasn’t long before David De Gea was required

9:17 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN If you’ve ever watched an evening of PFL fights, you know the company runs its show differently from other mixed martial arts promotions. In a sport fueled by star power and talking a good game, the PFL’s season format shifts the focus to the nitty-gritty of fight results. Viral tweets

3:54 PM ET The implementation of the first nationwide anti-doping program for racehorses in the U.S. has been delayed by at least one month as it awaits approval by the federal agency that oversees it, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) said. The new rules, which had been scheduled to take effect late last

7:48 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Anthony Joshua’s likeness was plastered on the exterior walls of New York’s Madison Square Garden in larger-than-life form ahead of his hotly anticipated U.S. debut in June 2019. Joshua, of Watford, England, then one of the sport’s top-two global stars alongside Canelo Alvarez, already had conquered Europe and now was