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Major League Baseball’s Field of Dreams Game is set for Thursday night. The inspiration comes from the 1989 movie with Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones, where a man built a baseball field in a cornfield. An 8,000-seat ballpark has been built adjacent to the actual site of the movie in Dyersville, Iowa and the […]

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July weekend. It was cold and raining here in Boston, but I still made the most of it and had a good time with family and friends. I am now getting ready for a two-week Hawaii vacation, but don’t worry, I’ll still be bringing […]

Getty Blue Jackets goalie Matiss Kivlenieks was at a Michigan home owned by the team’s goaltending coach Manny Legace when he died in a fireworks accident on July 4, according to ESPN’s Emily Kaplan. Kivlenieks was hit in the chest by a fireworks mortar blast and was pronounced dead by the time he arrived at […]

The New York Knicks‘ free agency moves are the best example of that “they had us in the first half, not gonna lie,” video. On the opening day of free agency, the Knicks wasted no time in handing out contracts to re-sign several players who helped get them to the playoffs last season. Derrick Rose […]

12:28 PM ET Sam Marsden Julien Laurens On Monday, Lionel Messi sat at his home in Castelldefels, a beach town in the Barcelona suburbs, waiting for his move to Paris Saint-Germain to develop. It was revealed last Thursday that he could not return to Barcelona — negotiations had been ongoing with the French club since […]

12:45 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paula Lavigne Close ESPN Staff Writer Data analyst and reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit. Winner, 2014 Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award; finalist, 2012 IRE broadcast award; […]

Getty Images The last time we saw J.R. Smith in a competitive setting was with the NBA title-winning Los Angeles Lakers in 2019-20. The next time we see him in a competitive setting, however, might be out on the links. The two-time NBA champion is returning to school and enrolling at North Carolina A&T to […]

Getty Images Brewers right-hander Corbin Burnes tied the major league record on Wednesday night with 10 consecutive strikeouts of his Cubs‘ opponents. He didn’t strike anyone out in the first inning, but then struck out the side in the second, third and fourth innings before striking out Frank Schwindel in the fifth to tie the […]

The Montreal Canadiens haven’t won the Stanley Cup since 1993, when they defeated the Los Angeles Kings for their 24th NHL championship. They’ll have to pull off an amazing feat if they hope to capture another crown, as only the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs have come back from an 0-3 deficit in the Stanley Cup […]

Overtime Elite, the upstart professional league positioning itself as an alternative path for players aspiring to turn pro, signed its highest-ranked recruit to date on Wednesday as five-star Class of 2022 point guard Jazian Gortman, the No. 8 player in the 247Sports Composite rankings, committed to joining the league. Gortman is the 14th player to […]