6:43 PM ET Associated Press Jenson Button will make his NASCAR debut later this month at Circuit of the Americas, the first of three Cup Series races scheduled for the former Formula One world champion. Button puts two former F1 champions in the field for the March 26 race on the permanent road course in
6:35 PM ET Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Maryland has hired Josh Gattis as an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Gattis joins the Terrapins after one season as Miami’s offensive coordinator. He was fired after the team went 5-7. Before that, Gattis was an offensive coordinator at Michigan. He won the Broyles Award as
7:21 PM ET Free-agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. will be holding a workout for NFL teams on Friday in Arizona, sources told ESPN. Beckham, 30, missed all of this past season because of a torn ACL that occurred in last year’s Super Bowl. He did go on a free-agent tour in which he visited
10:37 AM ET ESPN staff The World Baseball Classic will feature some of the greatest players MLB has seen in quite some time. Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and more will face off as the global tournament returns for the first time since the pandemic. Then there are the teams where
Mar 9, 2023 Mike CoppingerESPN Gennadiy Golovkin has vacated his WBA middleweight title, the organization announced Thursday. GGG informed the WBA of his decision earlier Thursday ahead of a scheduled March 13 purse bid for a matchup against Erislandy Lara, the WBA’s “regular” champion, as the organization continues to consolidate titles. Golovkin, 40, relinquished his
5:30 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United bounced back from the horror show against Liverpool to take control of their Europa League tie with Real Betis by beating the Spanish club 4-1 on Thursday. United won their last-16 first-leg fixture at Old Trafford thanks to goals from Marcus Rashford, Antony, Bruno Fernandes
Mar 8, 2023 The Six Nations returns this weekend with Ireland looking to extend their perfect run and boost hopes of a Grand Slam swoop. They face second-placed Scotland in a key clash on Sunday, who have surprised many so far in the tournament with eye-catching displays spearheaded by the box-office Finn Russell. England, gradually
3:04 PM ET An MRI on the left thigh of Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic revealed no damage, and a return to the lineup will come as the discomfort allows him, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Doncic will undergo treatment to alleviate the soreness, but he isn’t expected to miss significant time, sources said. Doncic
Mar 7, 2023 Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Rory McIlroy went from thick grass to a double bogey on his opening hole at the Players Championship. He ended his round the same way Thursday. In-between was some pedestrian golf at the TPC Sawgrass. It added up to a 76, his highest score in
7:00 AM ET RUSSELL GAGE WAS taking out the trash at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, March 14, 2022 — two days before the official start of NFL free agency — when a random number popped up on his phone. Gage answered the call with suspicion. “Hi, this is Tom Brady,” Gage heard on the other
3:00 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Former player and current ESPN analyst Patrick McEnroe will be the new president of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and USTA Foundation chief executive Dan Faber was chosen as the Hall’s new CEO. McEnroe and Faber will begin their roles on May 1, it was announced
Najmul Hossain hit 51 off 30 balls as Bangladesh held their nerve to beat world champions England by six wickets in the first Twenty20 international in Chittagong on Thursday. Najmul’s third T20I fifty guided Bangladesh to 158-4 in 18 overs after the hosts held England to 156-6, despite skipper Jos Buttler making 67 off 42 balls. “Bangladesh finished the innings
7:30 AM ET Liverpool are not for sale, which is bad news for whoever paid for a plane to fly over Anfield ahead of Sunday’s Premier League match against Manchester United carrying a protest banner that declared: “FSG Out — Klopp In — Enough Is Enough.” The timing of the stunt probably couldn’t have been
Mar 9, 2023 Iowa‘s athletics department will pay the entire settlement of more than $4 million to a group of Black former football players who sued the university for alleged racial discrimination. University president Barbara Wilson on Thursday said the athletic department will reimburse $2 million to the state’s general fund for the settlement. Iowa’s
Organisers of the Women’s Tour have said that funding is “urgently required” for this year’s event. A £500,000 shortfall must be filled by mid-April or the race could be cancelled, the Press Association reports. Organisers announced the route on Thursday but warned that fresh sponsorship is needed. The race went ahead without a title sponsor
10:30 AM ET ESPN staff NHL fans have had this Thursday, March 9, circled on their calendars for quite some time. Tonight’s game featuring the Boston Bruins against the Edmonton Oilers (7:30 ET, exclusively on ESPN+ and Hulu) is not just a rematch of the 1990 Stanley Cup Final — although perhaps it is a
7:00 AM ET It’s that time of year: The projection systems for the 2023 MLB season have been released and baseball analysts are divulging their secret-sauce prophecies, so let’s dig into the five teams that are most likely to take a step forward and possibly emerge as playoff surprises in 2023. And, yes, no matter
9:02 AM ET Chase Elliott broke his leg snowboarding last week, keeping him out of Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 in Las Vegas. Sean Gardner/Getty Images People are going to be people. Racers are going to be racers. Chase Elliott? He was doing nothing more than being Chase Elliott. That’s how the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series champ broke