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8:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN Throughout every iteration of the NBA, some of its best and most iconic players — from Wilt Chamberlain to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Shaquille O’Neal — have been traded during their pro careers. Soon, the Brooklyn Nets’ Kevin Durant could become the latest all-time-great player on that list. As the basketball

Jul 21, 2022 Mike Coppinger Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Unlike most other professional sports, trades do not happen in boxing. Boxing promoters sign fighters to their companies and promote their fights,

7:00 AM ET The NHL offseason has featured impactful trades, surprising contracts and a few genuinely shocking moments like the biggest free agent available choosing to sign with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Some teams aced the offseason test. Other teams … didn’t. Here are the report cards for all 32 NHL teams through the first

Jul 21, 2022 College football roster management has always been a rather fraught affair. Between stars weighing whether to go pro, underplayed underclassmen thinking about transferring, the forever-stressful experience of both winning key recruiting battles and keeping said battles won, everyone needing to keep their grades up and so on, projecting what a roster will

9:06 PM ET Albert Pujols was named the 2022 recipient of the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award as part of the ESPYS on Wednesday night in Los Angeles, another accolade for the retiring St. Louis Cardinals slugger. The award is given to an athlete whose “continuous, demonstrated leadership has created a measured positive impact on

Jul 19, 2022 Associated Press CHICAGO — Ben Kennedy is thinking big. As in big cities, big ideas and big plans. That’s how NASCAR and Chicago got together. Kennedy played an instrumental role in NASCAR bringing an unprecedented street race to downtown Chicago during its 75th season in yet another radical change to its once

1:16 PM ET Two weeks into the 2022 European Championship, we’re still waiting for the first big name to fall. We won’t have to wait much longer. Six teams entered the 16-team tournament with title odds significantly better than the rest of the field, and all six advanced as expected to the knockout rounds. With

Jul 17, 2022 Rugby Australia have released a statement on poor fan conduct at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday following the Wallabies 21-17 series loss to England. In several videos shared on social media on Sunday, one man was seen scaling the SCG stands to sit and urinate on the roof before he was

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Golf’s major season ended with Australia’s Cameron Smith winning the 150th edition of The Open and lifting the Claret Jug at St. Andrews on Sunday. Smith became the sixth straight player in his 20s to win a major and the second consecutive first-timer. Matt Fitzpatrick picked up his first at the

9:11 AM ET Nate Diaz is the kind of guy who makes more headlines from doing an interview than most fighters get for competing in the cage. He’s one of the most famous athletes in the history of the UFC and remains relevant in any MMA conversation despite having just one win since 2016. Diaz

3:58 PM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Out of the turn emerged the winner of the 150th Open. While the whole of St. Andrews was following Rory McIlroy, Cameron Smith, a group ahead, strung together a run of five birdies in a row to leap to the top of the leaderboard through 14 holes. An

1:24 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Even though Ryan Garcia looked better than ever with a sixth-round KO of Javier Fortuna on Saturday in Los Angeles, it feels like we’re moving farther away from a super fight against Gervonta Davis. The impressive performance — knockdowns in Rounds 4, 5 and 6 — was Garcia’s second consecutive

11:45 PM ET Associated Press EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Beach Glass won the $600,000 Meadowlands Pace on Saturday night, capturing the only race to elude his Hall of Fame sire. Somebeachsomewhere won 20 of 21 career starts, suffering his lone defeat in the 2008 Meadowlands Pace. He died in 2018, and Beach Glass was a

1:25 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Kyrie Irving is expected to play in Los Angeles’ famed Drew League on Saturday, the commissioner of the pro-am basketball league, Dino Smiley, told ESPN. However, he is not scheduled to play at the same time as LeBron James, according to Smiley. Irving is scheduled to play at 11

1:41 PM ET The Houston Texans have settled all claims and intended claims against the organization in relation to the team’s role regarding allegations of sexual misconduct involving former Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, attorney Tony Buzbee said in a release Friday. The terms of the settlements are confidential, Buzbee said. In June, Watson settled 20

7:00 AM ET The transfer portal has gained popularity over the years and is now a resource for college football coaches to fill holes and revamp their rosters. New coaches have used the portal to quickly turn around struggling programs. Established coaches have used it to fill holes quickly while high school prospects develop. Quarterbacks

6:02 AM ET ESPN staff The 2022 NHL offseason is in full swing, as the draft is now in the rearview mirror and teams look to mold their rosters via trades and re-signings. While the start of free agency is traditionally on July 1, it will begin this year on July 13 because of the

7:00 AM ET Some teams will use the upcoming All-Star break as a reset in the hopes of finishing their 2022 campaign strong. Others may not be thrilled with the three-day gameplay stoppage. Teams that potentially fit into the latter category are Seattle and Baltimore — two of the hottest clubs in the American League

2:14 PM ET ESPN News Services 23XI Racing got a jump on the 2024 Cup Series season with the surprising announcement Tuesday that it signed Tyler Reddick to join the NASCAR team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin. Reddick, a two-time Xfinity Series champion, is in his third full season driving for Richard Childress

5:00 AM ET BANGKOK, Thailand — It has been the briefest of summers for Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool. Just 45 days after losing the Champions League final against Real Madrid in Paris, the team that came so close to achieving an unprecedented quadruple last season was back in action in a friendly against Premier League