4:22 PM ET ESPN News Services Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols hit his 702nd career home run in the third inning of Sunday’s 7-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates in St. Louis. Pujols drove an 0-1 pitch from Roansy Contreras deep to center for a solo shot. The 42-year-old Pujols is fourth on the career home
12:23 PM BST Wales will host Rugby World Cup warm-up internationals against both England and South Africa in Cardiff next August, the three rugby unions announced simultaneously on Monday. England and Wales will meet in a double header, first at the Principality Stadium on Aug. 5 and then at Twickenham in London one week later.
11:01 AM ET After starter Tyler Van Dyke was benched in an ugly loss to Middle Tennessee two weeks ago, Miami head coach Mario Cristobal said Monday there is no quarterback controversy in Coral Gables. “We are honest about the fact that Tyler has played great football here for a long time and you don’t
10:30 AM ET PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin sat behind the dais in the fluorescently lit room at Acrisure Stadium and spoke for three minutes. Of the 436 words the Pittsburgh Steelers coach said, few explained why he benched Mitch Trubisky for rookie first-round pick Kenny Pickett at halftime of the Steelers’ 24-20 loss to the
11:29 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 Chris Eubank was making his way to the ring for his first fight with Nigel Benn in 1990, when he was caught by a
Virender Sehwag and Universe Boss Chris Gayle among the other Adani Sportline-owned Gujarat Giants players celebrated Navratri in Jodhpur on the sidelines of Legends League Cricket on Saturday. As India celebrates one of country’s biggest festivals, the cricketers exhibited stunning moves as they grooved to traditional music at a special garba night. The cricketers, who are
9:00 AM ET The NHL is debuting digitally enhanced dasherboards (DED) for all games this season that will “erase and replace” the advertising found on arena rink boards with virtual ads on broadcasts. The DED system allows for the digital replacement of camera-visible arena dasherboards within local, national and international NHL game broadcasts. While overlaying
9:16 AM ET Cameron Norrie was forced to pull out of the Japan Open after testing positive for Covid-19 while out competing in South Korea. Norrie wrote in a social media post: “Unfortunately, I had a positive Covid test in Korea and wasn’t able to compete in the rest of my matches. I have no
9:00 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN Followers of MMA need no introduction to Anderson Silva. But for those combat sports fans who follow just boxing as well as those social media mavens drawn to boxing merely by the presence of YouTube personality Jake Paul, there is much to know about Silva, who will face Paul in
8:00 AM ET ESPN staff Week 5 of the 2022 college football season gave us a close call (Georgia), a stunning upset (TCU), a backup quarterback stepping in for a Heisman winner to lead ranked Alabama to victory (Jalen Milroe), and no shortage of moments that make us love the sport. Best catch Javaian Lofton.
8:00 AM ET NBA Insiders Which NBA players are on the verge of a breakout season? Last year, it was third-year point guard Ja Morant, who increased his scoring to average to 27.4 points per game from 19.1 during his sophomore season and led the upstart Memphis Grizzlies to the league’s second-best record. Morant set
7:00 AM ET PITTSBURGH — SIDNEY CROSBY DOESN’T scare easily. But the future of the Pittsburgh Penguins had him unnerved. Center Evgeni Malkin and defenseman Kris Letang, Crosby’s teammates on all three of his Stanley Cup victories, were at the end of their contracts last season. Free agency loomed. Rare was the team, in hockey
10:56 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — Dansby Swanson and Matt Olson homered for the third straight game, Travis d’Arnaud hit a go-ahead two-run single in the third inning and the Atlanta Braves beat the New York Mets 5-3 on Sunday night to win a critical tiebreaker in their season series. The defending World
Women’s Asia Cup Live: Sabbhineni Meghana and Shafali Verma gave India a strong start© Twitter India Women vs Malaysia Women, Live Updates: A fine half-century from Sabbhineni Meghana and a quickfire knock from Richa Ghosh helped India post 181/4 after being put in to bat by Malaysia in their Women’s Asia Cup encounter on Monday. Meghana, playing
1:37 AM ET ESPN News Services The Phoenix Suns lost their preseason opener at home to a hot-shooting Adelaide 36ers team from Australia’s National Basketball League 134-124 on Sunday night. The Suns, whose last game at Footprint Center was a 33-point loss to the Dallas Mavericks in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals, became
12:46 PM ET NFL NationESPN Week 4 of the 2022 NFL season got underway Thursday night with a Cincinnati Bengals win that was overshadowed by a frightening injury to Miami Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa, who suffered a concussion and was briefly hospitalized. Sunday’s slate of games ended with the Kansas City Chiefs and quarterback Patrick
3:26 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Colorado fired football coach Karl Dorrell on Sunday in the wake of the Buffaloes’ 0-5 start to the 2022 season, the university announced. The school also dismissed defensive coordinator Chris Wilson. “I want everybody to know that I have a ton of respect for Coach Dorrell and the way he
6:30 PM ET European club football is back in full swing following the international break. We saw a couple of big derbies in the Premier League — Arsenal beating Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City seeing off Manchester United — while Barcelona now sit over Real Madrid in LaLiga standings. Meanwhile, Liverpool and Internazionale are all