David SchoenfieldJan 9, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close Covers MLB for ESPN.com Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995 The MLB offseason reached its inevitable Christmas pause — and has yet to pick back up again, with the only recent major signings the three Japanese players who each signed just before…
Tim Bontemps Close Tim Bontemps ESPN Senior Writer Tim Bontemps is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com who covers the league and what’s impacting it on and off the court, including trade deadline intel, expansion and his MVP Straw Polls. You can find Tim alongside Brian Windhorst and Tim MacMahon on The Hoop Collective podcast….
Another first-party Xbox game is making the leap to PlayStation 5. This time around, Obsidian’s Avowed — one of our favorite games of last year — is crossing the great divide. The fantasy action RPG will hit Sony’s console on February 17, one day shy of the game’s first anniversary. As it happens, an anniversary…
The Chicago Bears host the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field on Saturday night in the second game of the NFL’s wild-card weekend. The NFC North rivals split the season series, and the tape really tells a story. So, let’s take a deeper look at both teams, using the previous games to place our top…
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Will Grant,Central America correspondentand Olivia Ireland EPA Protesters in Colombia have been calling for the release of political prisoners in Venezuela The Venezuelan government has started releasing detainees considered political prisoners by human rights groups, in what officials described as a goodwill gesture. Spain’s foreign ministry said five of its nationals had been released. Among…
Elon Musk’s platform X has limited image editing with its AI tool Grok to paying users, after it came under fire for allowing people to make sexualised deepfakes. There has been a significant backlash after the chatbot honoured requests from users to digitally alter images of other people by undressing them without their consent. But…
A mountain of rubbish collapsed at a landfill in the central Philippines on Thursday, killing a 22-year-old woman and leaving more than 30 people missing, authorities have said. Rescuers pulled 12 injured sanitation workers from debris at the Binaliw Landfill in Cebu City, who were later hospitalised. Many of the missing are believed to be…
Tensions over US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown rose across the United States on Thursday after the second shooting involving immigration officers in two days, deepening rifts between state and federal officials over how and why the shootings occurred. Protests intensified in Minnesota following Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old mother by an Immigration and…
For the first time, the Golden Globes‘ two special honors — the Cecil B. DeMille Award and the Carol Burnett Award — were presented in a special televised ceremony called Golden Eve, with Helen Mirren and Sarah Jessica Parker as this year’s honorees. The event aired Thursday night on CBS and Paramount+ after taping in…
