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Multiple Contributors May 4, 2023, 07:00 AM ET It’s time to close the books on the 2023 NFL draft and begin looking ahead to next year’s group. And the 2024 class is looking pretty, pretty good. The quarterback class could be even deeper and better than 2023’s was, there are potential franchise options at receiver

Anita Marks May 5, 2023, 01:21 PM ET The 149th Kentucky Derby is Saturday with 20 of the best athletes in the world facing off in the Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs. They have been bred for speed and distance, trained since birth by the best in the world. For them, this moment

Katherine Terrell, ESPN Staff WriterMay 5, 2023, 01:20 PM ET Close Covered the NFL since 2013 Previously covered the Saints for the Times-Picayune and The Athletic Bengals beat writer for ESPN from 2016-19 You have questions about the 2023 Kentucky Derby? We’ve got answers. When, where and how to watch the Kentucky Derby The 149th

Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterMay 6, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. LAS VEGAS — Given the current landscape in the NHL, a team can give up four goals in a Stanley Cup playoff game and its coach can still feel like it had “defensive success.” That

May 4, 2023, 07:00 AM ET We’re just over a month into the new MLB season, and that means it is time to start taking what we’ve seen — for better or worse — a little more seriously as the sample continues to grow. Does that mean we should buy in to unexpected starts in

Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterMay 5, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Colorado has had 71 players enter the transfer portal since last August, causing a stir about what is happening in Boulder and how new coach Deion Sanders will manage the roster. It has

May 4, 2023, 04:37 PM ET Napoli have won their first Italian Serie A title in 33 years, clinching the Scudetto on Thursday with a 1-1 draw at Udinese. Needing only a draw to take an unassailable 16-point lead with five games still remaining, Serie A’s top scorer Victor Osimhen equalised for Napoli in the

ESPN.com staff May 4, 2023, 01:30 PM ET The 149th running of the Kentucky Derby will take place Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Forte, trained by Todd Fletcher, opened as the 3-1 morning-line favorite leaving from the 15 post after Derby post positions were released Monday. Tapit Trice had the second-shortest morning line

9:33 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Another week, another designated event on the PGA Tour. The Wells Fargo Championship returns to Quail Hollow Club this week, after a one-year hiatus while the club prepares to host the 2023 Presidents Cup. As a designated event on the revamped PGA Tour schedule, the tournament will have a

7:44 AM ET One recent day, as Saturday’s UFC bantamweight championship defense against Henry Cejudo approached, Aljamain Sterling chose not to dwell on the pressure attached to the most important night of his career. Instead, he did what he always does when the moment is magnified. He grabbed his phone and played chess to steady

5:11 PM ET The Houston Open is officially returning to the spring portion of the PGA Tour schedule and will be played March 28-31 in 2024, tournament organizers announced Tuesday. The PGA Tour had previously announced that the longtime tour stop would be moved back to the spring next year after it wasn’t included in

2:14 PM ET Former heavyweight boxing world champion Deontay Wilder was arrested early Tuesday in Los Angeles for possession of a concealed weapon. The Los Angeles Police Department announced that Wilder, 37, was taken into custody at 1:15 a.m. local time Tuesday morning. He was released on a bond of $35,000 approximately five hours later.

8:32 PM ET Tennis great Serena Williams is pregnant with her second child, she announced in an Instagram post Monday night ahead of her attendance at the Met Gala. “Was so excited when Anna Wintour invited the 3 of us to the Met Gala,” Williams wrote in the caption, referring to the Vogue editor-in-chief and

8:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN DURING THE POSTGAME news conference following Philadelphia‘s first-round sweep of the Brooklyn Nets, a question was posed to 76ers guard James Harden. What are your motivations for this season, besides winning a championship? In his answer, Harden kept coming back to one word: sacrifice. “I told myself this year, that

4:26 PM ET Associated Press DOVER, Del. — Martin Truex Jr. mastered the Monster Mile on a Monday for the third time in his career, and the former NASCAR champion snapped a 54-race winless streak overall in the Cup Series at Dover Motor Speedway. Thanks to a race postponed a day because of rain, it

5:37 PM ET Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett‘s 2-year-old daughter, Arrayah, drowned in a swimming pool at his home in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday. “Today’s tragic news is heartbreaking for all members of the Buccaneers family. Our thoughts and prayers are with Shaq, Jordanna and the entire Barrett family during this unimaginably difficult time,”

1:20 AM ET ESPN staff The 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs are here, as 16 teams compete for the most magnificent trophy in sports. The record-setting Boston Bruins are the No. 1 overall seed, but their path will be a tough one. Out West, the defending Cup champion Colorado Avalanche hope to continue their reign atop

7:00 AM ET We’re around the one-month mark of the 2023 MLB season, and while it’s still too early to be paying too much attention to the standings, five of the six division leaders are teams that didn’t win their divisions last year. We’re not even out of April yet and there’s a long season

3:07 PM BST England beat a spirited France 38-33 to win their fifth straight women’s Six Nations title with a Grand Slam in front of a record-breaking crowd at Twickenham on Sunday to give coach Simon Middleton a fitting farewell. With 58,498 fans in attendance, top-ranked side England struggled with nerves at first before pulling

4:27 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen In the multi-billion-pound industry that is the top end of professional football, for better or worse it’s transfer activity that attracts the most attention among investors, owners, managers, sporting staff, media and supporters alike. And although the transfer window doesn’t reopen for another couple of months, planning is already well