New York Yankees lefty Max Fried has been stellar in his first year with the team, and he can become the first 10-game winner in the league when he and the Yankees face the Cincinnati Reds in the final game of their series. Fried is 9-2 with an AL-leading 2.05 ERA, and he’s firmly in the AL Cy Young conversation….
Jun 25, 2025, 04:50 PM ET For the past five summers, the best tight ends from around the NFL have gathered in Nashville, Tennessee, for Tight End University — an event hosted by the Kansas City Chiefs‘ Travis Kelce, the San Francisco 49ers‘ George Kittle and retired Pro Bowl tight end Greg Olsen. Editor’s Picks…
Jun 25, 2025, 04:45 AM ET Luka Modric has verbally agreed to sign for AC Milan, the Serie A club’s sporting director, Igli Tare has said. “I spoke to him in person and saw a guy who is really eager to be competitive. His arrival is crucial for a group that needs players like him,…
Julio Rodriguez is notoriously a slow starter as he’s a career .300 hitter after the All-Star break, compared to a .261 hitter before it. However, he enters the Wednesday MLB schedule as one of the most productive players in the majors, boasting the fifth-best WAR amongst AL position players. That makes utilizing Rodriguez in MLB…
The Wednesday clash between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers figured to be a compelling one, as it featured a matchup of 23-year-old right-handed aces — Paul Skenes and his MLB-leading ERA for the visitors and rookie thunderbolt Jacob Misiorowski for the host Brewers. As it turned out, only one of the two, Misiorowski in…
Kylian Mbappe has been left out of the Real Madrid squad for Thursday’s final Club World Cup group game against Red Bull Salzburg, despite returning to training following illness. The French superstar did not feature in the list of 23 players named by coach Xabi Alonso and published by the club for the match in…
Matteo MorettoJun 25, 2025, 03:07 AM ET Close Born and based in Italy, Matteo Moretto is ESPN.com’s soccer transfer correspondent covering all the major leagues in Europe and beyond. Atlético Madrid have reached a verbal agreement with Real Betis to sign United States men’s national team midfielder Johnny Cardoso, sources have told ESPN. ESPN reported…
Fifty-nine players will be drafted into the NBA over the course of Wednesday and Thursday’s annual NBA Draft. The varying levels of confidence I have in their future successes ranges anywhere between he’s probably a future Hall of Famer to, well, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. There is a lot of certainty, for instance, that Cooper Flagg will be…
Katherine TerrellJun 25, 2025, 06:00 AM ET Close Katherine Terrell came back to ESPN to cover the New Orleans Saints in the summer of 2022. She left the company in 2019 after joining in 2016 to cover the Cincinnati Bengals. Katherine is a graduate of LSU and a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native, and she has…
Houston Rockets guard Fred VanVleet intends to sign a two-year, $50 million contract to stay with the franchise, with a player option in 2026-27, sources told ESPN. The Rockets are declining VanVleet’s $44.9 million team option for next season, the sources said, and now secure a new deal with VanVleet’s representative, Klutch Sports CEO Rich…
