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Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterJan 25, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Open Extended Reactions Value. It’s a loaded, variable term. Especially in the sports sphere. We’ve seen it all before: a struggling player cut from one team goes on to thrive somewhere else. Right place, right

Associated Press Jan 24, 2024, 05:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — The four-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival that will be held at Saratoga Race Course from June 6-9 will feature 23 stakes worth $10.1 million, the New York Racing Association announced Wednesday. Nine of the stakes will run at different distances than

Ramona Shelburne Close Ramona Shelburne ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Jamal Collier Jan 24, 2024, 02:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions FOR THE PAST 15 years, there was little reason to pay much attention to the name of the Wheaten Terrier owned by Milwaukee

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterJan 23, 2024, 11:56 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions Holly Holm and Kayla Harrison, two of the most accomplished athletes in women’s combat sports history, will meet at UFC 300. The UFC has signed Harrison, a

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Jan 24, 2024, 08:48 AM ET Open Extended Reactions After more than three hours of battling in the hot Australian summer sun, relentlessly chasing down ball after ball to scrape her way out of an early deficit, Coco Gauff walked back into the center of the court at Rod Laver Arena. As

NFL Nation reporters Jan 23, 2024, 06:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The 2023 NFL season is over for 28 teams, and now their sights are set on the offseason. Each team is thinking about free agency in March and planning for the 2024 draft in April. This draft class again offers plenty of excitement,

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterJan 22, 2024, 07:16 PM Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions Top 14 giants Racing 92 have announced the signing of England and Saracens star Owen Farrell

Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterJan 23, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Open Extended Reactions With ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for the 2024 season unveiled following Michigan’s 34-13 defeat of Washington in the national championship game earlier this month, it’s time to move

Associated Press Jan 22, 2024, 09:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert says on social media that he has asked attorneys to end his appeal of Medina Spirit’s disqualification as the 2021 Kentucky Derby winner after the now-deceased colt failed a postrace drug test that detected the

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJan 22, 2024, 03:07 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions Nick Dunlap, the University of Alabama sophomore who on Sunday became the first amateur to win on the PGA Tour in more than three

Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterJan 22, 2024, 07:09 AM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Open Extended Reactions Adrián Beltré is all but certain to be a Hall of Famer on Tuesday night, after the Baseball

Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterJan 20, 2024, 06:50 PM ET Close Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Open Extended Reactions Someday, with the benefit of hindsight, Saturday’s United States men’s national team game against Slovenia could turn out to be the day several mainstays got their first chance. There are

Associated Press Jan 19, 2024, 10:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jimmie Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus, who teamed up to win a record-tying seven Cup championships, were inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Friday night. The sport’s dominant duo, both first-ballot inductees, joined Donnie Allison, an original member

Jan 19, 2024, 08:09 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The 2024 MMA calendar is off and rolling with big events on the immediate horizon. The UFC will host its first pay-per-view of the year in Toronto with UFC 297. The first joint event between the PFL and Bellator will follow in February with a fascinating

Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterJan 19, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Open Extended Reactions We’re another week closer to All-Star Weekend — the spiritual, if not mathematical midway point of the season — but our voters caused no change atop the Power Rankings, with the Winnipeg

Mike Coppinger, ESPNJan 18, 2024, 07:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions 2023 delivered more superfights than any other year in recent memory. Gervonta Davis–Ryan Garcia. Errol Spence Jr.–Terence Crawford. Even Canelo Alvarez‘s showdown against Jermell Charlo was highly anticipated, as was Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou. And now, 2024 is getting off to a scorching

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Jan 18, 2024, 11:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Amanda Anisimova shook her clenched fists, smiled and let out a deep breath. While the 6-3, 6-4 score might not have indicated it, nor her dominant play, the 22-year-old American had just won her first major match in over 17 months. As the

Ramona Shelburne, ESPN Senior WriterJan 17, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Open Extended Reactions THERE ARE EXACTLY 124 courtside seats inside Crypto.com Arena for every Los Angeles Lakers home game. Securing a pair of them for any game is no easy task.

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterJan 17, 2024, 05:59 PM Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Open Extended Reactions Before the last Rugby World Cup, England head coach Steve Borthwick set his team a test.

Jamison Hensley, ESPN Staff WriterJan 17, 2024, 06:00 AM ET Close Jamison Hensley is a reporter covering the Baltimore Ravens for ESPN. Jamison joined ESPN in 2011, covering the AFC North before focusing exclusively on the Ravens beginning in 2013. Jamison won the National Sports Media Association Maryland Sportswriter of the Year award in 2018,