3:55 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN The New Orleans Pelicans officially named Willie Green as their next head coach Thursday. Green is coming off a stint as an assistant with the Phoenix Suns, who just made a run to the NBA Finals, which delayed the timing of the Pelicans’ announcement. “After an extensive and collaborative search,
4:28 PM ET Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke and South Africa’s James Kingston carded an opening-round 65 to share the lead at The Senior Open on Thursday. Clarke failed to make the cut at last week’s 149th Open at Royal St. George’s, but he got off to a quick start at the Sunningdale Old Course in
ENG vs IND: Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara during the warm-up game.© Twitter Mayank Agarwal and Hanuma Vihari spent some valuable time in the middle while Ravindra Jadeja scored his second fifty of the game on the final day of India’s warm-up match against County XI, on Thursday. After bowling out County XI for 220 on
8:18 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Television ratings for the NBA Finals and playoffs posted sizable increases over last year. But that was the only good news for the NBA as far as viewer numbers. According to Nielsen, the NBA and ABC on Wednesday, the six-game series between the Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix
SL vs IND, 3rd ODI: Shikhar Dhawan hits a shot during the 2nd ODI.© AFP Having sealed a series-clinching win in the second ODI, India face Sri Lanka in their upcoming dead rubber third ODI, at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, on Friday. Skippered by Shikhar Dhawan, the visitors won the first ODI by
11:09 AM ET Sid LoweSpain writer “Anything can happen in football,” said the Atletico Madrid president, Enrique Cerezo. Even Barcelona following up their decision to let a striker go to Atletico Madrid for free, pay a chunk of his salary and help them win the league by… well, letting a striker go to Atletico Madrid
7:12 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — In 2020, Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren often looked at a picture on his desk. The photo showed his parents, Morrison and Margaret, with 9-month-old Kevin in 1964. Warren knows what mom and dad would have said to him if they had been alive last year: Two words you need
8:36 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — The home of the French Open tennis championship will host boxing matches in September, 75 years after French great Marcel Cerdan fought and won there. The French Tennis Federation said Wednesday that French boxer Tony Yoka and other boxers will fight on Court Philippe-Chatrier at Roland Garros on
8:15 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 Team Great Britain has had one of the most dominant teams in boxing across the last decade with at least nine medals in the
9:00 AM ET Congratulations! You’ve been acquired by the Seattle Kraken, the NHL’s newest expansion team. So now what? Obviously you need time to process this life change. You could probably use a little help, too. Luckily, we have a handbook prepared to assist you in all matters of expansion-team acclimation, prepared by some experts
4:28 PM ET OXNARD, California — The Dallas Cowboys will open training camp under stricter COVID-19 protocols because they did not reach the 85-percent threshold, but owner and general manager Jerry Jones does not believe it will impact the players’ preparedness for the regular season. “My opinion is it will absolutely will not limit us
8:01 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 Frazer Clarke will begin his attempt to win Olympic gold in the men’s super heavyweight category on Saturday, and although Tokyo 2020 was delayed
Formula 1 teams have been warned they could face penalties if they visit race stewards without an invitation. Race director Michael Masi has written to all teams warning them that visiting the stewards was only permitted with prior approval or an official summons. He warned that transgressions could be considered a breach of F1’s rules.
7:00 AM ET With the trade deadline rapidly approaching, teams will make the difficult decision between standing pat and potentially not being good enough to win a championship, or mortgaging their future for a forlorn hope. It’s not an easy position to be in, and it could affect both the standings and our rankings over
7:00 AM ET Brent Flahr has seen his share of draft classes in his 20 years in the NHL, and the Philadelphia Flyers‘ assistant general manager believes the 2021 edition is going to be a fascinating one. The draft lottery picks, for example, could prove totally unpredictable. “It’s going to be a really interesting draft.
3:00 AM ET France had wanted to showcase the best players it could for the male team’s first appearance at the Olympic Games since 1996. France U21 head coach Sylvain Ripoll, who is in charge of the men’s Olympic team, dreamed of bringing the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Eduardo Camavinga, Houssem Aouar and Amine Gouiri
11:04 PM ET Associated Press Home hope Naomi Osaka will face 52nd-ranked Saisai Zheng of China and Novak Djokovic will play 139th-ranked Hugo Dellien of Bolivia in the opening round of the Olympic tennis tournament in Tokyo. Draws were held Thursday, two days before play opens at Ariake Tennis Park. Osaka is returning to competition
1:24 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Terence Crawford, ESPN’s No. 2 pound-for-pound boxer, could be preparing for a quantum leap in competition. A fight between the welterweight champion and former titleholder Shawn Porter was ordered by the WBO late Wednesday night. In the letter, sent to Crawford’s promoter, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, and Tom Brown,