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The New Orleans Pelicans are shutting down Zion Williamson (back) and CJ McCollum (foot) for the rest of the season.

After signing P.J. Tucker to two 10-day contracts, the New York Knicks plan to sign the forward to a two-year deal, sources told ESPN

NFL owners on Monday approved flexing Sunday games to Thursday night with 21 days' notice. Previously, 28 days' notice was needed.

Hawks star Trae Young has been named assistant GM for Oklahoma men's basketball and will assist with the evaluation of high school and transfer portal prospects.

The Pittsburgh Steelers aren't getting off the quarterback carousel anytime soon. Amid a public courtship of quarterback Aaron Rodgers, coach Mike Tomlin said Sunday that the team is still ...

Duke (+105) leads Florida (+275), Houston (+450) and Auburn (+500) as the favorite to win the national championship.

Boston Red Sox designated hitter Rafael Devers became the first major league player to strike out 10 times in the first three games of a season.

In his first start with the Toronto Blue Jays, Max Scherzer, 40, a two-time World Series champion who signed with the team in January, left after just three innings with right lat soreness, the ...

Kansas freshman Flory Bidunga has informed the coaching staff that he intends to enter the transfer portal, sources told ESPN.

St. John's star RJ Luis Jr., the Big East Player of the Year, is declaring for the NBA draft and entering the transfer portal, his agent told ESPN.

American snowboarder Chloe Kim and Australia's Scotty James won the halfpipe gold medals at the world championships.

North Carolina's RJ Davis and USC's JuJu Watkins lead all male and female NCAA athletes in NIL endorsements over the last 12 months.

With Dustin May on the mound for the first time in more than 22 months, the Dodgers came from behind to beat the Braves 3-1 on Tuesday night and improve to 7-0, tying the 1933 Yankees for the best ...

Stephen Curry had 52 points and 12 3-pointers as the Warriors held on for a wild 134-125 win over the Grizzlies on Tuesday night.

Major League Baseball's average salary broke the $5 million mark on Opening Day for the first time, according to a study by The Associated Press.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday said the idea of NFL players competing in flag football in the 2028 Olympic Games has been a popular topic among the league's players and suggested it was ...

UConn's Paige Bueckers, UCLA's Lauren Betts, Texas' Madison Booker, Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo and USC's JuJu Watkins are the finalists for the Wooden Award.

Cooper Flagg and Johni Broome headlined the Wooden Award finalists. They were joined on the list by Walter Clayton Jr., Mark Sears and Braden Smith.

Eagles CEO Jeffrey Lurie said Nick Sirianni "has done an outstanding job" and that Sirianni will remain the team's coach "going forward." Sirianni is entering the final year of his five-year deal.

Detroit's Isaiah Stewart, Marcus Sasser and Ron Holland II and Minnesota's Donte DiVincenzo and Naz Reid were all suspended for their roles in Sunday's skirmish.

NFL owners approved a variety of rule changes Tuesday, including a modification of the dynamic kickoff that will place the ball after touchbacks at the 35-yard line and a tweak to the ...

Raheem Morris does not expect quarterback Kirk Cousins to be part of the Falcons' voluntary offseason program because of a "business" impasse.

Behind 31 points and six assists, Paige Bueckers lifted No. 2 seed UConn to a 78-64 win over No. 1 seed USC in the Spokane 4 regional final, clinching the team's 16th Final Four appearance in 17 ...

Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman was out of the lineup Monday night against the Atlanta Braves after slipping in the shower and hurting his surgically repaired right ankle, an ...

St. John's has landed top-10 transfer Bryce Hopkins, sources told ESPN's Jeff Borzello. Hopkins, a forward, played the past three seasons at Providence.

Retired NFL start defensive back Richard Sherman said Monday on X that robbers with guns hit his house over the weekend while his family was at home. He posted security photos and a video, asking ...

The Tennessee Titans say they're "two weeks away-ish" from deciding on the first pick of the 2025 NFL draft and are still looking at quarterback prospects including Shedeur Sanders and Cam Ward. ...

Five players and two coaches were ejected after a fight broke out in the second quarter of the Timberwolves' 123-104 win against the Pistons on Sunday.

Washington captain Alex Ovechkin, 39, is five goals from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record after scoring the 890th of his career during the third period of the Capitals' home game Sunday, an 8-5 ...

Jeff Conine became the first member of the Marlins' Hall of Fame when he was inducted Sunday before the team's game, in which his son, Griffin, hit a tying solo homer.

UCLA caught fire from beyond the arc to hold off LSU and advance to the program's first NCAA Final Four.

After the LSU Tigers' season ended with a 72-65 loss to the UCLA Bruins in Sunday's regional final, junior guard Flau'Jae Johnson did not have an update on whether she might turn pro early.

An autographed Shohei Ohtani card that includes the MLB logo from the pants he wore to reach 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases last season became the first of the Dodgers star to sell for more than ...

Paige Bueckers exploded for 29 of her career-best 40 points in the second half, carrying UConn to an 82-59 rout over Oklahoma in the Sweet 16.

Playing for the first time since learning JuJu Watkins will miss the rest of the NCAA tournament with an ACL tear, the USC Trojans used key contributions from their freshman class to defeat the ...

Ilia Malinin defended his world title with a free skate that earned a standing ovation inside TD Garden on Saturday night.

Aryna Sabalenka, a three-time Grand Slam champion, defeated Jessica Pegula on Saturday to cap off an impressive run at the Miami Open with a title, as the No. 1 seed from Belarus rolled to a 7-5, ...

Notre Dame star Olivia Miles, projected to go No. 2 in the WNBA draft, says she's leaning toward declaring for the draft but remains undecided.

Grizzlies general manager Zach Kleiman says he did not speak to anyone on the roster before firing Taylor Jenkins as coach.

South Carolina guard Te-Hina Paopao says her team needs put an end to slow starts and start "punching first" in its Elite Eight showdown with Duke.