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Getty Images The Toronto Blue Jays already were dealing with a thin rotation, to the point that Tuesday’s starting pitcher is currently listed as “to be determined.” Those issues have worsened on Sunday when ace Hyun-Jin Ryu left the game early with an injury. The Blue Jays announced it was a minor right glute strain.

Match statistics: Manchester City 1-0 Tottenham Aymeric Laporte probably should not have been on the pitch at Wembley when Kevin De Bruyne curled a free kick across the Tottenham box in the 81st minute of the Carabao Cup final, but Manchester City will not care one bit. Laporte rose highest to nod De Bruyne’s cross past

Aaron Judge points after hitting home run vs. Orioles The Yankees and Los Angeles Angels spoke “very briefly” about an Aaron Judge trade this offseason, reports ESPN’s Buster Olney. Olney described it as “the lightest of flirtations” and nothing really came of it. One would think Judge, arguably the face of the franchise, is off

By Tyler Calvaruso | April 25, 2021 1:07 pm MADE Hoops hosted a loaded day of AAU basketball at Midwest Mania in Indianapolis on Saturday, with a matchup of the top two recruits in the class of 2022 stealing the show. Emoni Bates, the No. 1 recruit in the class of 2022, and Jalen Duren,

10:37 AM ET After testing positive for the coronavirus, Orlando Magic coach Steve Clifford will miss multiple games, starting with Sunday night’s game against Indiana, sources told ESPN. Clifford has been asymptomatic, but after receiving a positive test Sunday morning — his third positive in a four-day span — he will be forced to enter

11:27 PM ET Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Kentucky’s Alli Stumler bumped into coach Craig Skinner at the team hotel a few hours before the NCAA volleyball championship match and had a question for him. “You ready to win a natty?” she said she asked him. Oh yea, Skinner was. So was Stumler. The All-American

Zach Wilson looks like he’s headed to the Jets as the second overall pick, but not everyone thinks he’s the second-best quarterback in the draft. ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. believes the Jets would be better served taking Justin Fields because of the level of competition Wilson faced, his injury history and Fields’ more

11:07 PM ET In a surreal twist of fate on Saturday, former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman appeared to suffer the same gruesome leg injury in a loss to Uriah Hall that Anderson Silva suffered during a fight against Weidman nearly eight years ago. Hall (17-9) defeated Weidman (15-6) via TKO just 17 seconds into

11:26 PM ET Valentina Shevchenko has long been billed as one of the best strikers in all of MMA, male or female. On Saturday, she decided to give everyone a reminder that she is nowhere near a one-dimensional standup fighter. Shevchenko dominated Jessica Andrade with her wrestling and then finished in violent fashion with elbows

4:40 PM ET The proposed site fee to stage the Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua fight in Saudi Arabia exceeds $150 million, shattering the record for any site fee for a boxing event, according to ESPN’s Mark Kriegel. Fury and Joshua each will net around $75 million, and the rest, several million dollars, will be

12:06 AM ET Folks, Rose Namajunas has done it again. Less than four years after winning the UFC’s strawweight championship in a shocking knockout of Joanna Jedrzejczyk in New York, Namajunas (10-4) knocked out Zhang Weili with a left head kick just 1:18 into the opening round. The 115-pound title fight co-headlined UFC 261 at

12:14 AM ET Major League Baseball’s official Instagram account commemorated the 22-year anniversary of Fernando Tatis belting two grand slams in the same inning at Dodger Stadium on Friday morning. Fernando Tatis Jr. liked the post and linked to it on his Instagram story. “History!” he wrote. Hours later, the younger Tatis made his own

6:44 PM ET Longtime Houston Rockets CEO Tad Brown announced Friday that he will resign from his position at the end of the season. “It’s time to move on, and it’s time to take on other adventures that we’re looking forward to,” said Brown, who joined the Rockets organization as a vice president of corporate

10:07 AM ET BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns have exercised the fifth-year option on the contract of quarterback Baker Mayfield, a source told ESPN. The move extends Mayfield’s contract in Cleveland through 2022, when he’ll make $18.86 million. Last season, Mayfield — the No. 1 pick of the 2018 NFL draft — quarterbacked the

11:46 AM ET After an all-virtual 2020 NFL draft, commissioner Roger Goodell and the league are ready to embrace a return to normal. Goodell has been vaccinated and given the go-ahead to hug, high-five, shake hands and dap up players selected in next week’s draft. Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic forced players to celebrate the

The Cleveland Browns didn’t hesitate on the fifth-year rookie options for Baker Mayfield and Denzel Ward, making sure the top-five picks from the 2018 draft will be with the team until at least the 2022 season. Per Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer, Mayfield will earn $18.858 million and Ward $13.294 million under their fifth-year options —

7:15 AM ET Despite what you’ve seen and heard on social media and the exclamatory talk that has been tossed around outside the walls of team complexes in the weeks leading up to the 2021 NFL draft, a “riser” is not just a prospect who blew up at his pro day and posted ridiculous numbers.

7:41 PM ET Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. will miss time due to a violation of the NBA’s health and safety protocols stemming from visiting a Miami strip club with teammate Sterling Brown that resulted in Brown being assaulted, sources told ESPN. Porter will likely be out until at least Sunday, Rockets coach Stephen