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Greg Wyshynski, ESPNJul 27, 2023, 08:44 AM ET Close Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Before Marty Walsh took over the National Hockey League Players Association in February 2023, he witnessed soccer history. It was Sept. 2022 at Audi Field in Washington, D.C. Having served as Boston’s mayor from 2014 to 2021, Walsh was

Associated Press Jul 26, 2023, 12:07 PM ET LONDON — Tennis coach and former top-10 player Mark Philippoussis has been fined $10,000 by the International Tennis Integrity Agency for breaching betting sponsorship rules. The ITIA said Wednesday that the Australian was also given a four-month suspended ban “after receiving payment for providing a voiceover to

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 26, 2023, 09:46 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia And just like that, the 2023 major championship season is over in men’s professional golf. Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka each won another major championship title. World

Marc J. Spears Jul 25, 2023, 11:04 AM ET Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown has agreed to sign the richest deal in NBA history — a five-year, $304 million supermax contract extension, his agent Jason Glushon told ESPN on Tuesday. Brown and Glushon met with Celtics management and ownership Sunday evening in Boston, finalizing the

Mike Coppinger, ESPNJul 25, 2023, 10:54 AM ET Naoya Inoue isn’t simply the best boxer in the world — he’s an all-time great still adding chapters to his legendary career. “The Monster” continued his climb up the mythical all-time list with yet another see-it-to-believe-it performance, a pulverizing eighth-round TKO of Stephen Fulton on Tuesday in

Stephen Holder Close Stephen Holder ESPN Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in the 2015 Indiana Associated Press Media Editors competition, and he is a previous top-10 winner in explanatory journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors national contest. He has

Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterJul 24, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. STANFORD, Calif. — It’s not hard for Troy Taylor to envision a parallel universe in which he would be home, outside of Sacramento, a high school teacher enjoying summer break. He would probably

Bradford Doolittle, ESPN Staff WriterJul 23, 2023, 04:29 PM ET Close Sports reporter, Kansas City Star, 2002-09 Writer, Baseball, Baseball Prospectus Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus Member, Baseball Writers Association of America Member, Professional Basketball Writers Association Baseball’s two newest Hall of Famers, Fred McGriff and Scott Rolen, joined the ranks of the immortals on Sunday

Associated Press Jul 22, 2023, 08:21 PM ET LONG POND, Pa. — Austin Hill survived a wild restart in the final overtime laps at Pocono Raceway and earned his fourth Xfinity Series victory of the season on Saturday. Hill won the season opener at Daytona and added two more early season wins at Las Vegas

Caitlin Murray, ESPNJul 22, 2023, 02:02 AM ET Close Caitlin Murray is a general editor for ESPN.com. She has reported on and written about soccer for The New York Times, The Guardian, Yahoo Sports, Fox Sports, the Associated Press, and others. She authored a book about the history of the U.S. women’s national team called

On a glorious winter’s afternoon, with the Brisbane city skyline as his backdrop, Wallabies coach Eddie Jones made his way across a small patch of scaffolding overlapping the pool at the Lina Rooftop Bar. There to discuss the 2025 British & Irish Lions Tour, that series could not in fact be further to the back

Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterJul 20, 2023, 03:36 PM ET UFC bantamweight contender Rob Font will replace the injured Umar Nurmagomedov and fight Cory Sandhagen in the main event of UFC Nashville on Aug. 5, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Sandhagen vs. Font will take place at a catchweight of 140 pounds rather than the

Mark Schlabach Close Mark Schlabach ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paolo Uggetti Jul 19, 2023, 05:21 PM ET HOYLAKE, England — When Brooks Koepka walked up to the first tee at Royal Liverpool Golf Club for a practice round Monday,

ESPN draft experts Jul 20, 2023, 06:35 AM ET Three major sports have held their annual drafts over the past 30 days, and two of the No. 1 overall picks — Victor Wembanyama in the NBA and Connor Bedard in the NHL — were hyped as generational talents. And it wasn’t that long ago that

Andres Waters Jul 19, 2023, 08:03 AM ET After years of buildup, ESPN’s No. 1 pound-for-pound men’s boxer, Terence Crawford and No. 4 Errol Spence Jr., will finally square off on Saturday, July 29 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, in one of the most anticipated fights in men’s boxing. The 12-round fight for Spence’s

Jul 18, 2023, 08:00 PM ET Philadelphia 76ers general manager Daryl Morey admitted to 97.5 The Fanatic on Tuesday that James Harden prefers “to be somewhere else” but said the team would only trade him for a player who would keep the Sixers a title contender. Harden opted into his $35.6 million deal for the

Adam Teicher, ESPN Staff WriterJul 18, 2023, 05:28 PM ET Close Covered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Eight NFL franchises have won back-to-back Super Bowl championships but none since the New England Patriots did it following the 2003 and 2004 seasons. Patrick Mahomes said

Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJul 18, 2023, 07:30 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Florida won it for the first five years, then Tennessee and Florida split the next five. Georgia won three of four, then Florida did the same. Georgia won two of three, then Missouri came out of

Jul 17, 2023, 08:25 AM ET Cincinnati Reds legend Johnny Bench apologized Sunday for an antisemitic comment he made a day earlier during a team event. Bench was in attendance Saturday at a news conference to honor former Reds general manager Gabe Paul, who was Jewish, and former pitchers Danny Graves and Bronson Arroyo. The

Jul 17, 2023, 06:42 AM ET Two first-time Wimbledon champions were crowned over the weekend: Marketa Vondrousova became the first unseeded woman to ever win, while Carlos Alcaraz upset seven-time Wimbledon champ Novak Djokovic for the title. After an exciting two weeks, is it too early to look ahead to the next major? No way.