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Masvidal owns the record for fastest knockout in UFC history - five seconds - and got his start fighting in backyard brawls organized by Kimbo Slice. After spending time with Masvidal in his hometown of Miami, ESPN's Brett Okamoto talks with Mina Kimes about the man they call "Gamebred" and his rapid rise to superstardom. After being named a captain in this year's Pro Bowl, Michael Vick faced a new wave of criticism. Animal advocates and football fans alike point to Vick being sent to federal prison for his involvement in dogfighting.
After blowing out their first two opponents by an average of 37 points, SC coach Dawn Staley will be looking to take another step towards her second national title. But before Staley won her first championship came coach Carolyn Peck, the first Black woman to coach a team to an NCAA basketball title, with Purdue in 1999. Today, Carolyn Peck shares her story with us, and explains how she actually invited Dawn Staley to become the second member of her all too exclusive club ...
Mariners trade 2 pitchers for Blue Jays OF Teoscar Hernandez
American politicians cannot stop talking about young transgender athletes. Eight states now have laws or policies on the books restricting transgender athletes' access to youth sports, with seven states enacting them in 2021 alone. Katie Barnes covers transgender issues for ESPN and joins the show to explain the contours of the debate.
The Milwaukee Bucks put together a dominant effort led by Giannis Antetokounmpo to win Game 4 vs. the Nets, putting the series at 2-2 as Brooklyn grapples with Kyrie Irving and James Harden's injuries. Kirk Goldsberry assesses all the on-the-court action and looks ahead to the rest of this week's games. Then, newcomer Nets superfan Mina Kimes reassures the Brooklyn faithful.
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The three Arizona players reportedly drawing interest are Daulton Varsho, Jake McCarthy and Alek Thomas. “It would be tough to be there all year doing the regular-season games,’’ Shulman said, “and then to not be there if they make a run deep into the playoffs. It just made sense to me that if I'm all in on the Blue Jays, I'm all. That's my home, and sentimentally, that's where my heart's at right now for baseball, and the opportunity to call playoff games across Canada on TV. He really didn’t want to be calling games for ESPN radif the Blue Jays were in the World Series and not broadcasting for his own network.
It's been anything but a normal college basketball season, and March Madness will continue the trend. Gonzaga could become the first team since 1976 to go undefeated and win a national championship, with Baylor, Illinois and Michigan also at the top. Georgetown, led by legendary Hoya Patrick Ewing, is back in the Big Dance. Jay Bilas breaks down the field, region by region, and the path to win it all. Then, insight from the WNBA's Natasha Cloud as heard on LaChina Robinson's "I'm Speaking" podcast series, one year since Breonna Taylor's death. After a shortened 2020 season, MLB is back with a 162 game schedule and plenty of exciting storylines.
What Ohtani brings as a pitcher
"If we can put him into a position where he can sustain and haul a full season of innings he could become easily one of the better prospects in baseball," Atkins said. Macko, a 21-year-old from Bratislava, Slovakia, made eight starts for advanced-A Everett in 2022. He has permanent resident status in Canada after living in Stony Plain, Alta., for six years. The 29-year-old Swanson, who made his big-league debut in 2019, had 70 strikeouts and 10 walks last season.
MLB Insider Jeff Passan makes sense of the offseason's most dramatic moves and shares which teams he finds most intriguing this coming season. Will Pablo's beloved Yankees be able to overcome their AL East rivals, the talented Toronto Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays? Plus, Jeff fills us in on MLB's new tech to fight sign-stealing. The NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships begin today in Fort Worth, but you'd be forgiven if you mistook it for the Tokyo Olympics this past summer.
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Ahead of Travis's second-straight Super Bowl appearance, Lisa Salters brings us inside the relationship between the two brothers. In fact, Patrick Mahomes' favorite target may never have made it to the league if not for big brother Jason's interventions along the way. Then, director Ken Rodgers explains how he used deepfake technology to bring former Raiders owner Al Davis and former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle "back to life" for the new 30 for 30 film "Al Davis vs. The NFL." On Tuesday morning, Tiger Woods was involved in a serious car accident outside of Los Angeles, where he was taken to a hospital to treat his injuries. ESPN's Ramona Shelburne brings us the latest from her reporting on the scene.
But now, after initially saying they would not allow Irving to play part-time, the Nets have reversed course, and the team is allowing him to play on the road. We also ask Nick about his past life covering the Golden State Warriors, and Klay Thompson's impending comeback. The Georgia Bulldogs are your 2022 College Football Champions! The biggest night in CFB was a thriller until the very end, with Georgia and Alabama trading touchdowns late into the fourth quarter.
ESPN Senior Writer and tennis encyclopedia Howard Bryant looks back on Serena's legendary career one more time...before it comes to a close. It's been 20 years since Allen Iverson's infamous rant, the one you've seen clips of pretty much everywhere, where Iverson goes off in response to a question about his practice habits. That roughly one-minute sound bite has come to be one of the most lasting moments of Iverson's career...but it was the rest of that press conference that truly offers a window into Iverson's life and career. It was the culmination of frustrating ends to two consecutive seasons, grief over the murder of his best friend...and the microscope he had been under since he was 17 years old. Justin Tinsley joins us to reflect on Iverson's press conference, the fallout from it, and what everyone got wrong in the two decades since. Today, Pujols is back in a St. Louis Cardinals uniform and just might be looking like his old self again.
The LIV Golf Tour makes its latest stop this week at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey, bringing all the drama that this Saudi Arabian-funded venture has fostered since its inception. Alan Shipnuck, the reporter who has followed this league from the start, tells us what all this means for the present and future of golf. For 37 years, Roger Maris' single-season home run record of 61 stood alone as possibly the greatest single-season achievement in baseball. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa broke the record in 1998, and so did Barry Bonds three years later. But those achievements came at the height of the steroid era, and in the more than two decades since, no player has topped Maris' mark. But this season, the Yankees' Aaron Judge is on pace to comfortably surpass Maris.
At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, researchers, athletes, coaches and commentators swap takes on the digital trends changing how games are played, and how business is done. Morey joins Pablo to definitely not apologize for anything, to discuss the rise of sports analytics, and how data can make teams and the NBA game itself even better. Then, Myron Medcalf gives us a view from Minnesota, where Twin Cities teams postponed games in the wake of the police shooting of Daunte Wright. Sam Borden joins the show to explain if the creation of the new league is even possible, and why it's got the soccer world in an uproar.
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