Associated Press Apr 5, 2024, 06:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLESTON, S.C. — Top-seeded Jessica Pegula saved four match points in a third-set tiebreaker and beat Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7) Friday to reach the Charleston Open semifinals. Pegula squandered four match points of her own, up 5-4 in the final set against
Lizzy Becherano Apr 5, 2024, 11:44 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Inter Miami CF assistant coach Javi Morales downplayed reports of an incident with Lionel Messi in the Monterrey locker room after Wednesday’s Concacaf Champions Cup quarterfinal clash, saying “the most important thing happened on the field.” A source told ESPN that following Miami’s defeat,
Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentApr 5, 2024, 11:55 AM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. United States women’s national team interim manager Twila Kilgore said that midfielder Korbin Albert, who is facing a backlash from fans and teammates over some of her social media activity, “is available”
Apr 5, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Who are the top 10 coaches in college football? A straightforward question, but one that generated a wide range of opinions. In asking our reporters for their top 10, we left the parameters open, allowing them to weigh the factors they thought were important — from
Apr 5, 2024, 12:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Derrick Brown is signing a four-year, $96 million extension that includes $63.165 million guaranteed, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday. The $24 million per year average on Brown’s extension is the fourth highest in the NFL for a defensive tackle.
Associated Press Apr 4, 2024, 03:45 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GLENDALE, Ariz. — NC State big man DJ Burns Jr. sees himself as a center on the basketball court, not a pulling guard on the football field. His interest in playing football when the season is over: “Zero,” he said Thursday. The 6-foot-9, 275-pounder’s
Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterApr 5, 2024, 01:30 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions William Byron won the Daytona 500 for the first time in February for his 11th victory in the NASCAR Cup Series. Jared C.
IPL 2024: SRH got back on the winning track with 6-wicket win over CSK.© BCCI Aiden Markram struck a brisk half-century as Sunrisers Hyderabad overcame some late jitters to beat Chennai Super Kings by six wickets in the Indian Premier League on Friday. The South African batsman hit four fours and a six in his
Constantin Eckner Apr 5, 2024, 05:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions After winning the Bundesliga’s promotion playoff over Hamburg last spring, Sebastian Hoeness (right) now has Stuttgart on the verge of securing a Champions League place. Maja Hitij/Getty Images His last name is certainly familiar, yet Sebastian Hoeness, the coach, remains a relatively new figure among
Shwetha Surendran, ESPNApr 5, 2024, 07:22 AM ET Close Shwetha Surendran is writer in ESPN’s investigative and enterprise unit. Open Extended Reactions The 25-year sentence for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried last week ended one criminal chapter in the implosion of one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges. But several civil lawsuits — including three that
Greg Wyshynski, ESPNApr 5, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Open Extended Reactions The final weeks of the NHL season could be absolutely chaotic, from determining playoff seeding to watching teams skate hard until their bubbles burst. The final NHL Awards Watch of the season reveals similar uncertainty. Some
Jorge Castillo, ESPN Staff WriterApr 5, 2024, 08:52 AM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024. Open Extended Reactions NEW
Apr 5, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions When we asked our college football reporters to rank the sport’s top 10 coaches, we figured there wouldn’t be much debate about who is No. 1 — and there wasn’t. Georgia’s Kirby Smart, whose Bulldogs are 42-2 over the past three seasons, was the unanimous pick
Open Extended Reactions Don’t look now, but the NFL draft is quickly approaching, and we’re already thinking about the 2024 fantasy football season. And with a total solar eclipse coming Monday for several states across the nation, we thought what better time to take an early look at players we expect to “eclipse” their projections
Tim MacMahon, ESPN Staff WriterApr 5, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Open Extended Reactions SABRINA IONESCU COULDN’T wait for the start of the NBA season. Specifically, the WNBA All-Star circled the Boston Celtics‘ season opener as
Tim Bontemps, ESPNApr 5, 2024, 01:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MIAMI — The Philadelphia 76ers began this week firmly entrenched in eighth place in the East and unsure when Joel Embiid would return. Now, after pulling off a dramatic comeback and beating the Miami Heat 109-105 on Thursday night at Kaseya Center, winning a
Indian cricket team batter Shubman Gill was part of the Kolkata Knight Riders franchise from 2018 to 2021 but the association ended when he was not retained by the franchise ahead of the mega auction. He went on to join Gujarat Titans and won the IPL title in the very first season before becoming the
Getty Images Reigning Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard suffered a collapsed lung in Thursday’s crash in the Itzulia Basque Country race. The 27-year-old Dane broke his collarbone and several ribs in a high-speed crash on a descent on stage four. His team, Visma-Lease a Bike, said on Friday that hospital tests also revealed bruising