12+ hour, 51+ min ago (232+ words) Texas Tech Red Raiders vs. Purdue Boilermakers: Game Highlights (1:18) The Boilermakers (6-0) earned 46 of 61 first-place votes in Monday's poll to remain at the top after beating then-No. 15 Texas Tech by 30 to win the Baha Mar Championship in the Bahamas. The Wildcats (5-0) earned 11 first-place votes to jump two spots. That came after last week's win at then-No. 3 UConn, part of a run that began with a victory over reigning NCAA champion Florida in Las Vegas and a win against a ranked UCLA team in Los Angeles. Arizona was ranked No. 13 in the preseason AP Top 25, but jumped to No. 5 after the Florida win before inching up to No. 4 last week. Houston, which spent a week at No. 1 earlier this month, slid a spot to No. 3 to make room for the Wildcats, while Duke and UConn rounded out the top five. Louisville, Michigan,…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago (514+ words) Jai Opetaia plans to begrudgingly fly to Los Angeles and bail up his next target in person after the Australian declared he wouldn't be rushed out of achieving his cruiserweight unification dream. The unbeaten IBF and The Ring champion will make a mandatory defence of his belts against Turkish challenger Huseyin Cinkara (23-0) on December 6 on the Gold Coast. It will be his eighth fight since first winning both belts more than three years ago and comes after thunderous knockouts in his only two appearances in 2025 improved him to 28-0. But the 30-year-old has been unable to unify his belts with those wins, with Opetaia's ruthless power and Australia's relatively small commercial market combining to scare off other belt holders. Gilberto 'Zurdo' Ramirez, owner of the WBO and WBA straps, is the biggest culprit having announced a defence for May next year…...

9+ hour, 30+ min ago (241+ words) Draymond Green shows off the vision with a great pass to Jimmy Butler for a Golden State dunk vs. Orlando. (0:16) SAN FRANCISCO -- Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green will miss Monday night's game against the Utah Jazz because of a right foot sprain. Green sustained the injury when Trail Blazers center Donovan Clingan fell on him during a scramble for a loose ball during a 127-123 home loss on Friday. This is the latest hit to a Warriors' frontcourt that is already depleted. Jonathan Kuminga will miss his sixth straight game with bilateral knee tendinitis, and Al Horford is out at least a week with sciatic nerve irritation on his right side. The MRI on Kuminga's knees came back clean, sources told ESPN, so there is no structural damage. He has been reporting soreness for about two weeks, and the Warriors…...

21+ hour, 2+ min ago (296+ words) LAS VEGAS -- A three-day stretch of difficult matchups for Syracuse became more challenging Monday, when the Orange announced that leading scorer Donnie Freeman will miss at least a week with a lower body injury. As a result of the injury, Syracuse freshman Kiyan Anthony -- the son of NBA legend Carmelo Anthony -- will receive a heavier workload for the Orange at the Players Era Festival. Through four games, Freeman, a 6-foot-9 sophomore, has averaged 17.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game for a Syracuse squad that will play No. 3 Houston on Monday and Kansas on Tuesday before it faces a third, undetermined opponent in Las Vegas later in the week. Freeman is also the anchor of a team that entered the week holding its opponents to a 34.9% clip inside the arc, good for No. 2 in the country. His absence will clearly put…...

10+ hour, 22+ min ago (621+ words) Drew Allar airs it out for 42-yard touchdown pass (0:39) Penn State quarterback Drew Allar, who is nearly six weeks out from having season-ending surgery on his broken left ankle, told ESPN he's amid a "full recovery" and gearing up for the NFL predraft process. Allar entered the season as one of the country's most promising quarterbacks, as he had flirted with going to the NFL after leading Penn State to the semifinals of last season's College Football Playoff. His 2025 season ended abruptly, breaking his left ankle on a scramble in the fourth quarter in a loss to Northwestern. Allar's season was immediately over, and Penn State fired James Franklin the following day. As he moves on to declare for the NFL draft in the upcoming weeks, Allar said he's ahead of schedule on his recovery and confident he'll return to…...

21+ hour, 43+ min ago (588+ words) A pair of Phoenix Suns minority owners allege that Mat Ishbia is using the franchise as "his personal piggy bank" and that the Suns governor has sunken a once profitable team team into the red, according to a lawsuit claiming misconduct and mismanagement by Ishbia. The filing in Delaware State Court, which was made public Monday and obtained by ESPN, is the latest turn in an ongoing legal battle between Ishbia, who bought the team in 2023 from embattled former majority owner Robert Sarver, and Scott Seldin and Andy Kohlberg, who are holdovers from the previous ownership regime under Sarver. Seldin and Kohlberg sued the team in August, alleging that Ishbia refused access to internal records and that he held a capital call on June 2, 2025, "to exert pressure on and dilute" the ownership shares held by the Suns' minority owners. Ishbia…...

14+ hour, 34+ min ago (593+ words) The third installment of ESPN's top 30 professional wrestlers under 30 saw several stars miss the age cutoff (Toni Storm, Konosuke Takeshita, Kris Statlander, Logan Paul, Yuma Aoyagi, Jamie Hayter and Dragon Lee), leaving room for some new talent to join this year's list. Some wrestlers rose, some fell and others held on to their spot in 2025. However, the movement highlights the depth of wrestling talent under the age of 30. This year's list features representatives from WWE, AEW, CMLL, Stardom, TNA, NJPW, NOAH and AAA. This ranking is based on merit rather than future potential. The criteria included drawing power, popularity, skills, position on the roster and accomplishments, including championships and tournament victories. Andreas Hale, Greg Wyshynski, Sean Coyle, Sachin Chandan, and Arda Ocal provide analysis on the final list. Dominik Mysterio heads back to his hometown of San Diego for an…...

20+ hour ago (367+ words) Lamar Jackson hits Zay Flowers with a 20-yard pass to get the Ravens into Jets territory. (0:20) OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Continuing a streak that keeps delivering hits to his banged-up body, Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is dealing with a different injury for the third straight week. Jackson didn't participate in the Ravens' walkthrough Monday because of a toe injury. This is the latest injury for Jackson, who missed a practice two weeks ago because of knee soreness and sat out a practice last week with an ankle injury. "He's good," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said after Monday's walkthrough when asked how Jackson was feeling. Jackson hasn't missed any games during this injury-filled month, but he hasn't resembled a two-time NFL MVP. He is in the midst of the worst rut of his eight-year career. This marks the first time he has…...

12+ hour, 22+ min ago (560+ words) Stephen A. Smith calls out Vikings leadership for not giving Justin Jefferson a better QB than J.J. McCarthy. (1:45) EAGAN, Minn. -- Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy has entered the concussion protocol after reporting symptoms on the flight home from Green Bay on Sunday night, coach Kevin O'Connell said Monday. It is the third injury suffered by McCarthy in his disastrous first season as the Vikings' starter, beginning with a high right ankle sprain in Week 2 and a bruised right hand in Week 10. O'Connell did not rule McCarthy out for Sunday's game at Seattle, but backup Max Brosmer will take first-team reps until McCarthy clears the protocol. "We'll go through the steps and phases of it," O'Connell said. "I am not ready to make any sort of designation for the game or anything like that. We'll let the process play out, but at the same…...