Mar 10, 2026, 07:00 AM ET It’s a bit quaint to look back on the past in the NBA and remember the late-season playoff hunts. Teams were really seeking the No. 1 seed and home-court advantage through the playoffs. When Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls had their double three-peat in the 1990s, you know…
Zach KramMar 10, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close Zach Kram is a national NBA writer for ESPN.com, specializing in short- and long-term trends across the league’s analytics landscape. He previously worked at The Ringer covering the NBA and MLB. You can follow Zach on X via @zachkram. Multiple Authors Kevin Durant‘s career arc is littered…
IN THE EARLY days of spring training, Nolan McLean‘s New York Mets teammates couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Here he was, in his first bullpen session of the spring, sitting 97 to 98 mph with his fastball, nearly 2 mph harder than last year. McLean showed up in midseason form for good reason. Even…
Editor’s note: This article was first published on Nov. 7, 2022, and has been updated Cruzeiro beat local rivals Atlético-MG by a single goal to win the 2026 Campeonato Mineiro at the weekend, but the climax of the regional final saw tensions boil over between the two sides as the game descended into utter chaos….
Michael VoepelMar 10, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. Multiple Authors With a rainbow of confetti on the shoulders of his dark blue jacket, UConn…
Death Valley in California – the hottest place on Earth and the driest place in North America – is currently carpeted in wildflowers in what is shaping up to be the best bloom in a decade. The National Park Service (NPS) officially categorised this as an above-average bloom year on 22 February, with low-elevation flowers…
TikTok doesn’t have to close its offices in Canada after all. The country will allow TikTok to keep its business operational after a national security review, Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly has announced. This is a complete 180 of the country’s decision back in 2024 to order TikTok to shut down its operations, citing unspecified…
A Hong Kong court has convicted a professor of offering a HK$1,000 (US$128) bribe to a property agent in an attempt to avoid paying HK$16,000 in compensation for breaching a tenancy agreement more than three years ago. Sha Tin Court on Tuesday rejected mainland Chinese scholar Du Du’s claim that he had only intended to…
heThe LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click. After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she hoped would be a more stable career in content marketing — only to find AI had automated…
