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Associated Press Sep 28, 2024, 07:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Aric Almirola crashed victory lane in the NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff opener Saturday at Kansas Speedway for his second victory of the season. Almirola, the 40-year-old former Cup driver running a limited Xfinity schedule for Joe Gibbs Racing, has six

Open Extended Reactions Pep Guardiola said he needs to “find a solution” to the absence of Rodri from Manchester City‘s midfield after the Premier League champions failed to win again without the injured Spain international against Newcastle on Saturday. Rodri, 28, has been ruled out for the rest of the season after damaging the anterior

Timothy Bradley Jr.Sep 26, 2024, 07:49 AM ET Close Timothy Bradley Jr. is an ESPN’s boxing analyst, a two-division, five-time world champion and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Open Extended Reactions The term “passage” refers to transitioning from one state to another. In boxing, a fighter may evolve from being a

Andreas Hale, ESPNSep 26, 2024, 10:47 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The UFC reached a new settlement in one of its antitrust lawsuits Thursday and hopes a judge will green-light it. TKO Group — the UFC’s parent company — reached an agreement with the plaintiffs of Le v. Zuffa that will pay $375 million in

Greg Wyshynski, ESPNSep 26, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Open Extended Reactions The only predictable thing about the 2024-25 NHL season is unpredictability. There are teams that could be Stanley Cup contenders or find themselves outside the playoff bubble. There are players who could boom or bust. The

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterSep 25, 2024, 07:45 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions South Korea’s Sungjae Im and Australia’s Min Woo Lee were born in 1998, the same year the International team captured its only Presidents Cup

Kris Rhim, ESPNSep 24, 2024, 08:19 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INGLEWOOD, Calif. — LA Clippers president Lawrence Frank said Tuesday that the swelling in Kawhi Leonard‘s inflamed right knee had decreased “significantly” but that the team plans to hold him out of drills during training camp. Frank was also noncommittal about Leonard being ready

Associated Press Sep 25, 2024, 06:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions BEIJING — Former top-ranked Naomi Osaka started the China Open with a routine 6-3, 6-2 victory over Lucia Bronzetti on Wednesday. The four-time Grand Slam champion was the headline act on the opening day and showed her class in closing out the first-round match

Lindsey Thiry, ESPNSep 24, 2024, 06:00 AM ET Close Lindsey Thiry is a national NFL reporter for ESPN. She joined ESPN in 2018 to cover the Los Angeles Rams after two years of covering them for the Los Angeles Times, and has also covered the Chargers for ESPN. She previously covered the Atlanta Falcons. You

Pete Thamel, ESPNSep 23, 2024, 08:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Utah State is set to agree to a deal to become the seventh member of the newly formed Pac-12, sources told ESPN. The move comes amid a dizzying day of realignment that saw the Pac-12’s interest in a handful of AAC schools get rebuffed

Greg Wyshynski, ESPNSep 23, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Open Extended Reactions Information is power in fantasy hockey drafts. I’ve competed against owners who have a NASA supercomputer breaking down player analytics and owners who are privy to so much fresh injury data that it seems like a

Sep 23, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The final week of the 2024 MLB regular season has arrived — and there is no shortage of drama left. The race for the final two National League playoff spots is coming down to the wire, with the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves set to

Associated Press Sep 21, 2024, 10:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NASCAR champions Brad Keselowski and Martin Truex Jr. were among the first four drivers knocked out of the playoffs Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway, where Kyle Larson cruised to an easy victory. The first of three elimination races in the 10-race playoffs began

Open Extended Reactions Player frustration over playing too many games and not getting enough rest is building across football, but just how close is the sport to a player strike? The issue of burnout has always been a significant topic in the game, but the expansion of UEFA’s club competitions and FIFA’s brand new Club

Associated Press Sep 19, 2024, 02:35 PM ET Open Extended Reactions FREEHOLD, N.J. — Freehold Raceway, the oldest horse racing track in the United States, is shutting down at the end of the year. Track officials made the announcement on Thursday after a meeting with employees. Horse racing has been conducted at the half-mile track

Timothy Bradley Jr.Sep 19, 2024, 07:51 AM ET Close Timothy Bradley Jr. is an ESPN’s boxing analyst, a two-division, five-time world champion and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Open Extended Reactions Activity in boxing is key. Competition keeps the fighters ready, furthers their stamina and sharpens their skills as they put

Sep 19, 2024, 08:23 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Blockbuster trades in MMA don’t happen like in other sports, and free agency only usually occurs when a fighter is either on the decline or a prospect is ready to rise up. Yet, many fighters are at a crossroads. Some find themselves perennially just outside of

Multiple Contributors Sep 18, 2024, 08:03 AM ET Open Extended Reactions With the NBA poised this season to consider expansion — perhaps adding at least one franchise in the next two to three years, as we laid out in Tuesday’s FAQ — let’s consider how any new team(s) would be built. The NBA is a

Katherine Terrell, ESPN Staff WriterSep 17, 2024, 06:00 AM ET Close Katherine Terrell came back to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer of 2022. She left the company in 2019 after joining in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a graduate of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native,

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterSep 17, 2024, 04:35 PM Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions Simon Easterby will coach Ireland’s men’s team in the 2025 Six Nations while Andy Farrell takes