Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterOct 26, 2024, 05:12 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said he occasionally shows his players clips of their embarrassing Sept. 7 home loss to Northern Illinois — a motivational tactic that appears to…
Oct 26, 2024, 05:56 PM ET A 13-fight card at UFC 308 in Abu Dhabi was headlined by a featherweight title fight between champion Ilia Topuria and former champ Max Holloway. Topuria, Khamzat Chimaev and Magomed Ankalaev emerged as big winners from the night, but what’s next for each fighter? To make sense of it…
Oct 26, 2024, 02:33 PM ET CLEVELAND — Jim Donovan, the beloved radio play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Browns and a TV sports fixture for more than four decades, died Saturday. He was 68. Donovan retired from his broadcast career earlier this year and stepped away from his game-day duties with the team before this…
Oct 26, 2024, 04:52 PM ET Ilia Topuria‘s first title defense was a memorable one. Topuria caught Max Holloway on the chin in the third round that sent the former champion to the canvas, after a barrage of ground-and-pound strikes, the referee stepped in and stopped the fight. The featherweight title stays around Topuria’s waist….
Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterOct 26, 2024, 08:14 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. LOS ANGELES — THE MOMENT met Shohei Ohtani on Friday night, as it so often has this month — eighth inning,…
Oct 26, 2024, 12:16 AM ET Lionel Messi had chances at goals time and time again, only to keep being denied. Turns out, all he needed to do was deliver the right pass at the right time. Jordi Alba turned a pass from Messi into the go-ahead goal in the 60th minute, Luis Suarez also…
Oct 26, 2024, 03:56 AM ET Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has said the club’s dressing room lacks a “proper leader” and has been left “expecting more” from captain Reece James this season. James returned from another lengthy hamstring injury layoff to make his first start of the season in the defeat against Liverpool last weekend…
Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterOct 24, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University ANNAPOLIS, Md. — On a hot, sunny, September morning, hundreds of Midshipmen, dressed in their matching fatigues for a “tactical Thursday,” crisscrossed Navy‘s campus to get to their next class, identical black backpacks…
Jorge Castillo, ESPN Staff WriterOct 26, 2024, 02:30 AM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024. LOS ANGELES — Yankees…
Chris Herring, ESPN Senior WriterOct 26, 2024, 12:15 AM ET NEW YORK — The New York Knicks got obliterated Tuesday in their season opener, done in by a deluge of Boston Celtics triples. An NBA record-tying 29 of them, to be exact. That taste was still in the Knicks’ mouths when they took the floor…