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7:00 AM ET Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker was feeling restless. The defending champions were keeping him up at night. When his team dropped the first two games of a series against the Arizona Diamondbacks to close out May, the Braves had fallen four games under .500 and Snitker decided something needed to be done.

12:00 PM ET SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — When United States midfielder Tyler Adams arrived just late to a ball in the second half of Tuesday’s CONCACAF Nations League match against El Salvador, the game had already descended into chaos. Just earlier, American winger Paul Arriola had been sent off following a questionable slide tackle

12:15 AM ET Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Todd Gilliland pulled away off a late restart to win the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race Saturday night on Knoxville Raceway’s half-mile dirt oval. Racing for father David Gilliland in his lone Truck start of the season, Gilliland won for the third time in the series.

11:07 PM ET Fight fans in Austin were treated to an absolute show on Saturday night. The 12-match fight card delivered eight knockouts, tying six other events for the most KO’s during a single event in the modern era. Rising stars like Joaquin Buckley, Gregory Rodrigues and Adrian Yanez made statements with finishes and put

5:47 PM BST Replacement fly-half Freddie Burns landed a last-minute drop goal to give Leicester their first English Premiership rugby title for nine years as they overcame a dogged Saracens 15-12 at Twickenham on Saturday. First-half tries by South African forwards Hanro Liebenberg and Jasper Wiese had Leicester 12-6 up at the break but Saracens

8:11 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN BROOKLINE, Mass. — In the midst of a tenuous time for golf, Brooks Koepka said earlier this week he wanted the focus to be on the U.S. Open. After two rounds, with Phil Mickelson now gone after having missed the cut, it’s safe to say that the focus has shifted

7:51 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN When Joe Smith Jr. narrowly defeated Maxim Vlasov in April 2021 to win the WBO light heavyweight title, a unification bout with WBC and IBF titleholder Artur Beterbiev instantly became a can’t-miss matchup. Two of the biggest punchers in boxing will meet on Saturday at New York’s Hulu Theater at

9:23 PM ET Tim MacMahon Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 The Dallas Mavericks are acquiring center/power forward Christian Wood from the Houston

3:37 PM ET NFL NationESPN Wednesday saw minicamps continue for much of the NFL, as many teams performed for the last time before training camps start in late July. But the big news of the day came from teams that already concluded minicamps, as the Pittsburgh Steelers made Minkah Fitzpatrick the highest-paid safety in NFL

8:00 AM ET With football conferences now allowed to eschew divisions in the name of a “permanent rivals, heavily rotated schedules and the top two teams in the conference championship game” era, the ultimate parity of the ACC Coastal division could soon be a thing of the past. Overall, this shift is welcome: The heavy

7:00 AM ET The 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs are down to the final two teams. The Western Conference champion Colorado Avalanche will host the Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET, ABC and ESPN+). Tampa Bay can become the first three-peat Cup champion

6:35 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Fernando Tatis Jr.’s surgically repaired left wrist hasn’t progressed to the point where the electrifying All-Star shortstop can start swinging a bat, general manager A.J. Preller said Tuesday. Tatis had a three-month follow-up exam in Arizona on Monday with Dr. Donald Sheridan, who operated on his broken

7:51 AM ET Serena Williams strongly hinted at a return to tennis this month at Wimbledon in a social media post Tuesday. Williams, 40, hasn’t competed since injuring her right leg last year at Wimbledon and did not appear on the women’s singles entry list released last Friday by the grass-court Grand Slam. But Williams

6:58 AM ET The International Football Association Board (The IFAB), football’s lawmaker, says Artificial Intelligence-driven semi-automated VAR offside technology is on course to be implemented for this year’s World Cup in Qatar. The time taken to make an offside decision, in some cases up to four minutes, has been a major issue with VAR. The

7:58 PM ET Associated Press SONOMA, Calif. — Daniel Suarez became the first Mexican-born driver to win a NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday, holding off Chris Buescher for a historic victory at Sonoma Raceway. Suarez, a 30-year-old from Monterrey, finally won in the 195th career start of a Cup Series career that began in 2017.

1:55 AM ET What were the biggest moments at UFC 275? Jeff Wagenheim, Brett Okamoto and Marc Raimondi offer up their takeaways from a highlight-packed event in Singapore. Are you not entertained? The UFC has a dozen champions, and there is not one as inventive as its newest, light heavyweight Jiri Prochazka. It took the

7:07 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Mo Donegal finished first and filly Nest was second, giving trainer Todd Pletcher a 1-2 finish at the Belmont Stakes on Saturday for his sixth victory in the Triple Crown race. Donegal rounded the 1 1/2-mile track in 2 minutes, 28.28 seconds, ahead of Nest and Skippylongstocking.

9:00 AM ET After months of speculation and controversy, the final round of the inaugural competition for LIV Golf is here. 1 Related Charl Schwartzel kept his position atop the leaderboard as the first two rounds came to a close. Schwartzel increased his lead on Friday to 9 under, after posting a 5-under 65 on

5:05 PM ET Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A judge on Friday dismissed a case against five suspects charged in the 2012 killing of renowned Puerto Rican boxer Hector “Macho” Camacho after authorities said the star witness fled the island. Prosecutors requested a second opportunity to have their case heard, adding that they

8:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — The moment Billy Donovan learned what kind of competitor Al Horford is remains as clear in his memory as if it happened this week — and not 20 years ago. “I’ll never forget it,” says Donovan, Horford’s coach at the University of Florida who is now in charge