The Houston Rockets are canvassing NBA teams with significant salary-cap space to individually offer center Clint Capela, guard Eric Gordon and forward P.J. Tucker as a prelude to their pursuit of a sign-and-trade deal for…
Sources: Rockets eyeing sign-and-trade for Butler
Once free agency starts on Sunday, the Rockets are planning to recruit Jimmy Butler to push the Philadelphia 76ers for a sign-and-trade deal that would allow the All-Star forward to join James Harden and Chris…
Yankees homer in MLB-record 28th straight game
The New York Yankees wasted no time breaking the major league record for consecutive games with a home run. DJ LeMahieu's leadoff homer off Toronto's Clayton Richard in the bottom of the first inning of…
Vandys Rocker fans 11 to force CWS Game…
OMAHA, Neb. -- Vanderbilt's go-to guy throughout the postseason again delivered a dominant performance. Freshman Kumar Rocker struck out 11 while pitching 6⅓ innings of three-hit ball, and Vanderbilt got to Michigan's shaky bullpen in…
Alonso tops Strawberrys Mets rookie HR mark
New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso hit his 27th home run of the season Sunday to set the franchise rookie record. Alonso's homer in the top of the fourth inning off the Chicago Cubs'…
Green, 22, hangs on to win her 1st…
CHASKA, Minn. -- Hannah Green never felt more nervous than standing over a 5-foot par putt Sunday at Hazeltine National with a chance to win her first major at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship. Neither…
King of SoCal: Two Kawhi billboards go up…
Los Angeles is wasting little time pitching Kawhi Leonard on a potential move to the Clippers. Two digital billboards went up over Interstate 5 in Downey, about 10 miles southeast of Staples Center, encouraging the…
Former Red Sox star David Ortiz moved out…
Ortiz's wife, Tiffany, said in a statement released by the team that the longtime designated hitter known as "Big Papi" has been moved out of the intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston…
Pujols goes deep in second game back at…
ST. LOUIS -- The last time the Angels' Albert Pujols homered at Busch Stadium, it was a championship season. When he did it Saturday, it wasn't the World Series, but it sure felt like it.…
Sources: Lakers OKd to talk with Warriors Adams
9:56 PM ET Ohm Youngmisuk Close ESPN Staff Writer Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a…
Miami Marlins player gets big hit after 10-year…
After he got injured a decade ago, Wilkin Castillo never gave up on his baseball career – and his belief in himself finally paid off Saturday. Castillo, 35, a catcher for MLB’s Miami Marlins, hit…
Pujols Busch Stadium return just pretty amazing
ST. LOUIS -- Albert Pujols is back in St. Louis, nearly eight years after celebrating a World Series crown in the city that made him famous. The Hall of Fame-bound slugger has accomplished a lot…
Pelicans pick Zion to open NBA draft, Morant…
1:16 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK -- Welcome to the NBA, Zion Williamson. The superstar forward out of Duke was selected No. 1 overall by the Pelicans in Thursday night's NBA draft at Barclays…
The Beautiful, Corrupt Game
Former UEFA head Michel Platini leaves a judicial police station where he was detained for questioning over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament in Nanterre, France, June 19, 2019. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters) Even…
MLB, umps union spar over Machado suspension
Major League Baseball called the MLB Umpires Association's impassioned social media post on San Diego Padres star Manny Machado's one-game suspension "inappropriate" in a statement Tuesday. It was in response to the MLBUA calling Machado's…
Sources: Horford to seek deal outside of Boston
2:16 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Boston Celtics center Al Horford will decline to exercise his $30.1 million option for the 2019-20 season and seek to leave the franchise as an unrestricted free agent this summer,…
Dominican Republic prosecutors identify alleged man who paid…
Surveillance video appears to show someone shooting at the back of former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz at a bar in the Dominican Republic. A previous version of this video misidentified Ortiz. USA TODAY…
LaMelo Ball commits to play in Australian NBL
LaMelo Ball has joined the Illawarra Hawks of the Australian National Basketball League, he announced on ESPN's The Jump on Monday. Ball, a 17-year-old point guard, played for a year in Lithuania in 2018, so…
VanVleet on Kawhi: Nothing else Raptors can do
Fred VanVleet said Sunday there is nothing more that the Toronto Raptors can do to convince Kawhi Leonard to re-sign with the team, but he and several teammates expressed their hopes that the NBA Finals…
Anthony Davis to the Lakers: Winners and losers…
SportsPulse: It's the trade we've all been waiting for and one that will shape this offseason and the NBA landscape for years to come. It also makes the Lakers an instant contender in the West.…
Whatever Comes Next for the Warriors, Their Historical…
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) and guard Andre Iguodala (9) during Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., June 13, 2019. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports/Reuters) If this…
Raptors hold off Warriors in Game 6 thriller…
SportsPulse: Trysta Krick tries to make sense of what we saw over the course of six games between the Raptors and Warriors and how it will have an echoing affect going forward. USA TODAY OAKLAND,…
Longtime Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, a Hall of…
SportsPulse: Minicamps are in full swing and training camps are just over a month away. We can't wait, so Lorenzo Reyes picked the biggest storylines we will sink our teeth into this upcoming NFL season.…