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Jun 8, 2024, 08:51 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Hall of Fame forward Chet Walker, a seven-time NBA All-Star known as “The Jet” for his speed, has died at the age of 84, the NBA announced. A member of the Chicago Bulls Ring of Honor, Walker was taken by the Syracuse Nationals in the 1962

ESPN News Services Jun 9, 2024, 01:04 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Seattle Mariners placed first baseman Ty France on the 10-day injured list with a right heel fracture Sunday while calling up prospect Tyler Locklear to make his major league debut. France suffered the injury after being hit by a pitch during Friday’s

Associated Press Jun 8, 2024, 07:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — During his playing days, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, he would not have volunteered to be interviewed on live television in the middle of a major league game. But he doesn’t fault Los Angeles third baseman Kiké Hernández for making an

Jun 9, 2024, 01:01 PM Open Extended Reactions England fly-half George Ford will miss the upcoming summer tour of Japan and New Zealand to recover from an achilles injury, the RFU confirmed on Sunday. Ford helped club side Sale Sharks to reach the Premiership Rugby semifinals, where they were knocked out by Bath, who lost

Tim Bontemps, ESPNJun 8, 2024, 04:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd attempted to throw a stick of dynamite into the middle of the Celtics locker room by declaring – twice – that Jaylen Brown is Boston’s best player Saturday afternoon. But when Brown and Jayson Tatum were separately

Associated Press Jun 7, 2024, 08:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Jontay Porter, the former Toronto Raptors forward who was given a lifetime ban by the NBA because of a sports betting scandal, was “in over his head” with a gambling addiction, his lawyer said Friday. Jeff Jensen, a government investigations attorney in St. Louis,

Associated Press Jun 8, 2024, 11:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — American Kaylan Bigun and Czech Tereza Valentova won the French Open junior boys’ and girls’ titles Saturday. Fifth-seeded Bigun, who is 18 and was born in Los Angeles, rallied to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the final against unseeded 17-year-old Tomasz Berkieta

Tim McManus, ESPN Staff WriterJun 6, 2024, 04:19 PM ET Close Tim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2016 after covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine’s Birds 24/7, a site he helped create, since 2010. You can follow him on Twitter @Tim_McManus. Open Extended Reactions PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Eagles quarterback

Dave McMenamin, ESPN Staff WriterJun 6, 2024, 10:34 PM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — With the league already having secured a new collective bargaining agreement

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterJun 6, 2024, 08:30 PM ET 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 PARIS — When Lucas Feron, 28, entered onto Court Philippe Chatrier at the French Open,

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands – Jeremie Frimpong scored one goal and laid on another as the Netherlands netted three times in 13 second-half minutes to secure a 4-0 victory over Canada in a friendly on Thursday. Memphis Depay scored his 45th international goal when he poked home Frimpong’s inviting cross from the right, before the Bayer Leverkusen winger netted

ESPN News Services Jun 6, 2024, 04:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Palestine advanced to the final round of World Cup qualification for the first time ever Thursday with a 0-0 draw against Lebanon. Palestine, who played in Qatar because of security concerns in Gaza, are second in their group and five points clear of

David Purdum, ESPN Staff WriterJun 6, 2024, 09:39 AM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2014 Journalist covering gambling industry since 2008 Open Extended Reactions The Dallas Mavericks would be the second-biggest preseason long shot to win the NBA title in 35 years — and the betting public believes they’ll do it. Approximately 80% of the

Open Extended Reactions Projected top-10 NBA draft pick Nikola Topic has a partially torn ACL, his agent, Misko Raznatovic, confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Topic is currently at the NBA draft combine in Treviso, Italy, where he went through the NBA’s medical examination, which included imaging. Topic suffered a left knee injury in January shortly

Michael A. Fletcher, ESPNJun 6, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Michael Fletcher is a senior writer with ESPN’s enterprise and investigative team. Before that, he wrote for ESPN’s The Undefeated, focusing on politics, criminal justice and social issues. He spent 21 years at The Washington Post, where his beats included the national economy, the White

Eli Lederman Jun 4, 2024, 06:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Alabama‘s future at the quarterback position became clearer Tuesday when dual-threat Keelon Russell, ESPN’s No. 81 recruit in the 2025 class and the No. 15 prospect from Texas, flipped from SMU and announced his commitment to the Crimson Tide. Russell’s commitment marks Alabama’s first

Open Extended Reactions The 2024 NBA Finals get underway Thursday with the Boston Celtics hosting the Dallas Mavericks in Game 1 of what’s expected to be a close, hard-fought series. Which bets stand out in the Finals? Here are the series and prop bets our experts Andre Snellings, Eric Moody, Tyler Fulghum, Steve Alexander and

Associated Press Jun 3, 2024, 10:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions COLUMBUS, Ohio — Adam Scott ended his longest day in golf with a playoff loss against Cam Davis in a U.S. Open qualifier, and now Scott has to wait a week to see if his alternate status will allow him to extend the longest

Jun 2, 2024, 06:16 PM Open Extended Reactions Rugby League legend Rob Burrow has died at the age of 41, following a long battle with motor neurone disease (MND), his former club Leeds Rhinos said on Sunday. Burrow was diagnosed with MND in 2019 and subsequently dedicated himself to raising awareness of the disease, as

ESPN News Services Jun 2, 2024, 02:15 PM ET Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann said he’s shocked that a public broadcaster asked participants in a survey if they would prefer more white players in the national soccer team. Nagelsmann agreed Sunday with midfielder Joshua Kimmich‘s comments the day before that the survey for German state broadcaster