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ESPN News Services Jul 26, 2024, 02:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The most interesting potential free agent target in the NBA might be a 61-year-old who retired nearly 25 years ago. TNT Sports analyst Charles Barkley told The Athletic on Friday that he would listen to NBA partners ESPN/Disney, NBC and Amazon if the

Baxter Holmes, ESPN Senior WriterJul 26, 2024, 01:59 PM ET Close Baxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. Open Extended Reactions Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit against

Andrew Lopez, ESPNJul 27, 2024, 08:33 AM ET Open Extended Reactions VICTOR WEMBANYAMA‘S OLYMPIC dream started years ago. But as a youngster in France, he wasn’t thinking about the 2024 games in Paris. Or even the Tokyo games. He wanted to play right away. “When I was a kid, when I just started basketball, I

Connor O’Halloran Jul 27, 2024, 02:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — The final days of Andy Murray‘s tennis career won’t play out like most of the others that came before. It won’t involve a singles match, nor is it likely that he will make a stirring run to a final or a classic

Mark Fainaru-Wada, ESPN Staff WriterJul 26, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Investigative reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit since 2007 Co-author of New York Times best-selling books “League of Denial” and “Game of Shadows” Co-winner, 2004 George Polk Award Open Extended Reactions KIGALI, Rwanda — In the summer of 2018, inside a national arena

Tim Bontemps, ESPNJul 25, 2024, 02:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The NBA officially announced its new national television coverage plan late Wednesday afternoon, after it concluded that Warner Bros. Discovery did not have the ability to match Amazon’s offer to take a third slice of the overall package. That means that Disney (ABC and

Associated Press Jul 20, 2024, 07:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions OCEANPORT, N.J. — Belmont Stakes winner Dornoch captured the $1 million Haskell Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park to take charge of what had been a wide-open 3-year-old division. The Haskell featured a renewal of the budding rivalry between Dornoch and Mindframe. They clashed

Associated Press Jul 19, 2024, 05:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Churchill Downs has rescinded its extended suspension of Bob Baffert, allowing the Hall of Fame trainer to resume racing his horses at the historic track and partner facilities after more than three years of banishment for a failed drug test of

Associated Press Jul 17, 2024, 04:27 PM ET Open Extended Reactions OCEANPORT, N.J. — Belmont Stakes winner Dornoch and runner-up Mindframe are set to renew their rivalry when they return to racing for the $1 million Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday. Mindframe, who finished a half-length behind Dornoch in the final leg of

ESPN News Services Jul 11, 2024, 07:06 PM ET Longtime NFL defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin died Thursday at the age of 84, Ole Miss announced. Kiffin was surrounded by family and friends, the school said. “As his grandson Knox said, he’s free of pain and smiling down on us from above,” the school said in

Turron Davenport, ESPNJul 11, 2024, 11:11 AM ET Close Turron Davenport covers the Tennessee Titans for ESPN. Turron is a former collegiate football player at Cheyney University and is a native of Philadelphia, and he has authored/co-authored four books. You can catch Turron on ESPN Radio on his show “Talking with TD” and you can

ESPN News Services Jul 11, 2024, 01:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — Bill Belichick has added a second media job for the upcoming season. The CW Network announced Thursday that Belichick will be one of the analysts on “Inside the NFL.” Belichick, who coached the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl

ESPN News Services Jul 11, 2024, 10:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — Prince Harry received the Pat Tillman Award for Service at The ESPYS on Thursday night, and he mentioned the late Army Ranger’s mother who had criticized ESPN for honoring the royal. With wife Meghan joining in a standing ovation, the

Open Extended Reactions With a little more than a month and a half left until college football is back in full swing, we’re taking a look at players who could be considered sleepers entering the 2024 season on each post-spring Top 25 team. From true freshmen who could make a name for themselves to players

Jeff Passan, ESPNJul 10, 2024, 05:00 PM ET Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was placed on the restricted list Wednesday, a day after prosecutors in the Dominican Republic levied three charges against him for an alleged

Multiple ESPN writers Jul 8, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions It’s clear the U.S. men’s national team needs a new direction. Since the 2022 World Cup, when the USMNT exited in the round of 16 against a superior Netherlands side, there has been little to no evidence of progression. In fact, it looks

Open Extended Reactions The end of the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs ran right up to draft week, as the Florida Panthers won the Cup less than four full days prior to the start of the selection process at Sphere. And less than two days after the final draft pick was made, the free agency frenzy

Jul 8, 2024, 08:03 AM Melvyn Jaminet plays as a fullback for Top 14 club Toulon and the France national team. Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images France fullback Melvyn Jaminet has been suspended from the national team after posting a video on social media with a racist comment, the French Rugby Federation (FFR) said on Sunday. The

Associated Press Jul 7, 2024, 09:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHICAGO — Alex Bowman secured a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs Sunday when he held on for the victory on a rainy street course in downtown Chicago. It was Bowman’s first victory since Las Vegas in March 2022 and No. 8 for

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJul 7, 2024, 02:35 AM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Shakur Stevenson captured Olympic silver at the 2016 Games in Rio