Jeff BorzelloApr 5, 2025, 05:03 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Duke‘s Cooper Flagg is the winner of the 2025 Wooden Award, becoming just the fourth freshman to earn the award.…
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CNN — Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin has tied Wayne Gretzky’s NHL all-time goals record with his 894th goal after he scored twice Friday in the team’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks. With the Hall of Famer in attendance, Ovechkin…
DETROIT — Tigers manager A.J. Hinch anticipated in Spring Training that managers might test his platooning of Kerry Carpenter this season by going to lefty relievers earlier. Still, as White Sox manager Will Venable walked to the mound to take…
WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin did not take long to move one goal away from tying and two from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record. Ovechkin beat Spencer Knight 3:52 into the Washington Capitals‘ home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday…
Julio Jones has not played since 2023, but he didn’t announce his retirement until Friday. “Today I’m announcing my retirement,” Jones said in a video posted to social media. “It started when I was 8 years old, just a kid…
Quarterback Trey Lance reached agreement on a one-year deal worth up to $6.2 million with the Los Angeles Chargers, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday. Lance and Taylor Heinicke are now the backups behind Chargers starter Justin Herbert. Herbert…
PHILADELPHIA — Giannis Antetokounmpo became the first player in NBA history to have 35 points, 17 rebounds and 20 assists as the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Philadelphia 76ers 126-113 Thursday night. Antetokounmpo helped the Bucks shoot 51.6% from 3-point range.…
Great job by the Padres to lock up emerging superstar Jackson Merrill to a $135 million, nine-year deal. Back in 2022 — just before the Padres acquired Juan Soto for C.J. Abrams, Mackenzie Gore, James Wood and two other young…
In February, a group of men on a sports talk show casually spread a salacious and untrue rumor about the sex life of a teenage girl on national television, resulting in her being humiliated and relentlessly harassed. It felt as…