Lovebird Raymond van Barneveld defied food poisoning to leave Ryan Meikle sick as a carat in a late-night thriller. Watched by fiancee Julia, to whom he proposed in Paris with a diamond ring dripping in carats earlier this year, Barney reached the third round at the Cazoo PDC World Championship for the first time in five years. Waiting for him […]

Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Billionaire mortgage lender Mat Ishbia is finalizing a purchase of the Phoenix Suns and the WNBA’s Mercury for a record price of $4 billion, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. The deal, expected to be announced as soon as Tuesday, will end the tumultuous tenure of owner Robert Sarver. Ishbia is well […]

Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard passed Clyde Drexler as the franchise’s all-time leading scorer Monday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Drexler had 18,040 points in 867 career games for Portland. Lillard surpassed that mark at 1:33 in the third quarter, with the first of two free throws that tied the game at 86. Lillard was playing in […]

A former Team GB Olympian told his fiancée to kill herself before dragging her away from the edge of their balcony with so much force that she fractured her skull. Swimmer James Disney-May, 30, who was part of the 100m freestyle relay team at the London Olympics in 2012, was arguing with Eleanor Cooke over a £9,000 rent bill for […]

PHOENIX — Suns coach Monty Williams said there was probably only one individual who could have stopped Devin Booker on Saturday night. “The only person that could’ve stopped him tonight was me by taking him out the game,” Williams said. Thankfully for the Suns, Williams never took Booker out in the second half. He finished with 58 points to lead […]

Bookmark Offbeat news from the world of sport We have more newsletters Norwegian beauty Ane Farstad has been turning heads in the speed-skating world just as easily as she's been turning them on social media. The 22-year-old Olympic hopeful, dubbed by fans as the "sexiest skater alive", has amassed more than 260,000 followers on Instagram, and it isn't hard to […]

Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Tyrell Terry, a guard selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the No. 31 overall pick in the 2020 draft, cited overwhelming anxiety in an Instagram post announcing his retirement from the game. “I decided to let go of the game that […]

There is a narrow leader in the early race for the Michael Jordan Trophy. Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, who is averaging a career-high 30.2 points per game, claimed 47 first-place votes and was on 98 of 100 ballots cast in the 2022-23 debut of ESPN’s NBA MVP straw poll, which was conducted from Sunday to Tuesday. Tatum would become […]

Sydney Thunder had a day to forget in the Big Bash League in Australia as they were bowled out for just 15 runs. The capitulation inside six overs against Adelaide Strikers is comfortably the lowest score ever seen in a men's professional T20 match. England star Alex Hales was among five Thunder players bowled for a duck, with No.10 batter […]

Bookmark Offbeat news from the world of sport We have more newsletters Former World's Strongest Man Thor Bjornsson was shown size doesn't always matter after grappling with a jiu-jitsu star. Bjornsson, known as The Mountain, stands at a staggering 6ft 9 and hit the scales at 23 stone when he took to the ring for a boxing match with Eddie […]