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Jeff Kassouf Jul 28, 2024, 06:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions There was an air of inevitability to the U.S. women’s national team at the height of its most recent run of success, one that evaporated over the past few years as the team struggled to keep up with emerging world powers. It returned with

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Jul 28, 2024, 09:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LESS THAN TWO hours after his devastating loss in the Wimbledon final, Novak Djokovic was already laser-focused on the rest of the season. Djokovic, 37, had just been defeated by Carlos Alcaraz 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (4), his dreams for a record-breaking 25th major

Associated Press Jul 27, 2024, 07:36 PM Open Extended Reactions SAINT-DENIS, France — In a seven-minute clinic that’ll long define his legacy, Antoine Dupont scored two tries and created another to deliver a coveted gold medal for France and end two-time champion Fiji’s Olympic dominance in rugby sevens. One of the world’s best rugby players,

Jul 28, 2024, 02:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A 14-fight card at UFC 304 in Manchester, England, was headlined by a pair of title bout rematches. Belal Muhammad dethroned Leon Edwards to become the new welterweight champion. In the co-main event, Tom Aspinall made quick work of Curtis Blaydes, leaving no doubt that he’s

Jul 26, 2024, 08:28 AM ET Open Extended Reactions We have spent the past week counting down our list of the top 100 athletes of the 21st century and three NHL players made the list, starting with Sidney Crosby at No. 22 overall. We also voted on an overall top 25 just for the NHL.

Nick ParkinsonJul 26, 2024, 07:52 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Women’s boxing has seen a resurgence since the sport was allowed to compete in the 2012 Olympics in London. Since then, fighters like Claressa Shields and Katie Taylor have

Jul 25, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions When LeBron James entered the NBA as the top pick in the 2003 draft, he did so in the face of seemingly impossible expectations. James already had graced a Sports Illustrated cover with the headline “The Chosen One.” His high school games had been broadcast on

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterJul 25, 2024, 09:09 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions Of the 32 sports taking place at this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, auto racing isn’t among them. AP Photo/Michel Euler, File Earlier

Stephen Holder, ESPNJul 25, 2024, 06:00 AM ET Close Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in the 2015 Indiana Associated Press Media Editors competition, and he is a previous top-10 winner in explanatory journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors national

Jul 15, 2024, 07:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The greatest athlete of the 21st century? That’s easy. It has to be Tom Brady, the quarterback of the greatest dynasty America’s favorite sport has ever seen, a seven-time Super Bowl champ and five-time Super Bowl MVP. Yep. Tom Brady. Except. Except it has to be

Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJul 24, 2024, 06:27 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions Welcome to the 2024 college football season, where the playoff is bigger, the (remaining) power conferences are, too, Nick Saban is working for ESPN and just about everybody needs new receivers (and maybe

Jul 22, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The 2024 MLB trade deadline is just around the corner, with contending teams deciding what they need to add before 6 p.m. ET on July 30 arrives. Could Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette be on the move from the Toronto Blue Jays? Could Garrett Crochet,

Jul 23, 2024, 09:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions We spent last week counting down our list of the top 100 athletes of the 21st century, and two women’s tennis players made the list, starting with Serena Williams at No. 2 overall. We also voted on an overall top 10 for women’s tennis. Who else

Jeff Kassouf Jul 22, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Trinity Rodman, left, and Emily Fox have a discussion during the USWNT’s 1-0 win over Mexico in a pre-Olympics friendly earlier this month. Stephen Nadler/ISI Photos/Getty Images for USSF At each opportunity to repeat the old company line that the standard for the U.S. women’s national team is

Associated Press Jul 21, 2024, 07:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — Kyle Larson left Indianapolis in May in the middle of one of the most agonizing days of his racing career. In his return Sunday, Larson finished one of the most memorable races of his career with one of sports’ more revered celebrations

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 21, 2024, 05:56 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions TROON, Scotland — Another major championship season has come and gone, and this one will be remembered as one that was dominated by American

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterJul 20, 2024, 11:06 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions Virna Jandiroba might have earned herself a UFC title shot Saturday night, and she looked extremely dangerous in doing so. The Brazilian strawweight submitted Amanda Lemos via

Associated Press Jul 20, 2024, 07:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions OCEANPORT, N.J. — Belmont Stakes winner Dornoch captured the $1 million Haskell Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park to take charge of what had been a wide-open 3-year-old division. The Haskell featured a renewal of the budding rivalry between Dornoch and Mindframe. They clashed

Jul 20, 2024, 11:23 AM ET Open Extended Reactions TROON, Scotland — South Korea’s Si Woo Kim made the longest hole-in-one in Open history when he aced the 238-yard par-3 17th in his third round at Royal Troon on Saturday. Kim, who shot a level-par 71, selected a 3-iron from his bag and struck his

Nick ParkinsonJul 20, 2024, 08:26 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Junto Nakatani sent out a chilling warning to his rival bantamweight champions after a body shot knocked out Vincent Astrolabio in the first round of his first defense of