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Oct 21, 2022 ESPN staff The Week 7 NFL schedule for the 2022 season is stacked with great matchups, and we have you covered with what you need to know heading into the weekend. Our NFL Nation reporters bring us the biggest keys to every game and a bold prediction for each matchup. Additionally, ESPN

7:05 AM ET ESPN staff ESPN’s slate of exclusive broadcasts continues on Friday with the first matchup in the Battle of Florida for 2022-23. The Florida Panthers are hosting the Tampa Bay Lightning, with coverage beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+ and Hulu. As an added bonus, there will be a Star Watch alternate

8:00 AM ET SAN DIEGO — Within the hallway that connects Petco Park’s home clubhouse to its first-base dugout, a mural has sprung, populated with a collection of Polaroid pictures that has grown with each passing triumph. The running tally sits at 163 photographs, neatly organized within 11 rows, a static highlight reel for the

Oct 21, 2022 Kendra AndrewsESPN The Golden State Warriors had a certain glow as they entered training camp four weeks ago. It’s a glow you have after spending the summer celebrating a championship and preparing to defend it the next season. Klay Thompson was seen dancing on his boat. Stephen Curry had his jersey retired

6:01 PM ET MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United climbed to within a point of the Premier League‘s top four with a comfortable 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford on Wednesday. Midfielders Fred and Bruno Fernandes supplied the goals, with Spurs No. 1 Hugo Lloris keeping the Londoners within touching distance. – Stream on

Oct 19, 2022 Associated Press Bubba Wallace and Christopher Bell shared a flight home from Las Vegas, and Wallace apologized during the trip to his fellow Toyota teammate for the incident that damaged Bell’s championship chances. Bell said Wallace also apologized to the entire Toyota group in the Monday competition meeting. Wallace has been suspended

Oct 18, 2022 Leigh Halfpenny, Ken Owens and Justin Tipuric are in line to make their comebacks for Wales in the November internationals more than a year after they last appeared for their country. Flyhalf Dan Biggar and back Liam Williams will miss out because of injury as coach Wayne Pivac on Tuesday named a

Oct 18, 2022 The week that was in professional golf saw many notable players return to the winner’s circle. Keegan Bradley ended a four-year PGA Tour drought by winning the Zozo Championship in Japan. Brooks Koepka claimed his first victory in 20 months by winning LIV Golf’s first event in Saudi Arabia, which, if you

9:18 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN A dominant champion lords over the fight game like a king. There’s respect piled on from all directions, sometimes admiringly, sometimes grudgingly. The champ’s every trip inside the Octagon draws the rapt anticipation of how greatness will manifest itself once again. The fans, even those generally hard to please, stand

Oct 16, 2022 Associated Press CARY, N.C. — Fred Couples broke his age by three shots with the lowest round of his PGA Tour Champions career, a 12-under 60 that sent him to a six-shot victory Sunday in the SAS Championship for his first title in more than five years. Couples was two shots behind

3:42 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett‘s first start at Acrisure Stadium ended early Sunday afternoon when he took a hard hit from Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Devin White midway through the third quarter and suffered a concussion. Pickett was hit as he threw, and his head appeared to hit the turf after

8:00 AM ET When we last saw the Los Angeles Lakers, they were careening out of the playoff picture, losing eight straight games from late March through early April as a fetid topper to a rotten season. L.A. went from the oddsmakers’ NBA Finals favorite to missing the play-in tournament, as injuries and an ill-conceived

Oct 16, 2022 Mike Coppinger Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Devin Haney showed once again this weekend why he deserves pound-for-pound consideration, while Deontay Wilder’s right hand was back in action, finishing Robert Helenius in Round

8:16 PM ET The No. 6 Tennessee Volunteers knocked off the No. 3 Alabama Crimson Tide at home with a last-second field goal in a barn burner of a game. The four-part series goes behind the scenes with all four CFP teams, leading up to and through the semifinals and the national championship game. Watch

10:06 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — It’s not like Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins needed extra motivation, but when the Atlanta Braves walked Kyle Schwarber intentionally, just before Hoskins stepped to the plate in the third inning of Game 3 of the NLDS on Friday, his focus narrowed just a little bit more. “Yes, of

9:54 AM ET Constantin Eckner BERLIN — “Without being arrogant, the difference was that I was special,” Kevin-Prince Boateng tells ESPN. “There aren’t many players like me; they come once every 10 years.” The 35-year-old attacking midfielder sits in a conference room at the headquarters of Hertha Berlin. Thick gold chains hang around his neck.

Oct 12, 2022 Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Alex Bowman said Wednesday he will miss the next three NASCAR races with a concussion he suffered last month in a crash in NASCAR’s new Next Gen car. Bowman, who sat out the past two races, will miss this weekend at Las Vegas, then sit out at

Oct 13, 2022 One of the most tiresome things about the NHL awards is that we spend as much time debating their subjective parameters as we do which players and coaches should win them. Should the Norris Trophy rely so heavily on a defenseman’s offensive output? How much should team success factor into the Vezina

7:46 AM ET Editor’s note: This story was originally published in September, prior to the postponement of the fight due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. THE PROMOTER, TRAINER and fighter were in a chauffeur-driven car heading to a press conference in London earlier this year, and Dmitry Salita couldn’t help himself. He’s always

Oct 11, 2022 Claude Atcher, the chief executive officer of the 2023 rugby World Cup in France, has been sacked after a report by the French Labour Inspectorate found that he oversaw an “extremely degraded social environment” at the organising committee. “Taking note of the report’s conclusions, France 2023’s board has decided to terminate the