The Anaheim Ducks are re-signing defenseman Jackson LaCombe to the largest deal in franchise history, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported Thursday. LaCombe’s eight-year, $72 million deal will set a Ducks record in terms of total contract value, according to Friedman. LaCombe is set to play the 2025-26 season on $925,000 cap hit, per Spotrac. He was...
Alexa PhilippouOct 2, 2025, 10:45 AM ET Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer LAS VEGAS — It was a cruelly fitting twist of...
Bill ConnellyOct 1, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019. Preseason All-American Cade Klubnik’s team is 1-3, and he is 94th in Total QBR. Preseason Heisman favorite Arch Manning is 71st. Sam Leavitt, Nico Iamaleava and...
Cast-iron skillets are heavy-duty kitchen heroes, but they only perform at their best if they’re properly cared for. Once you know how to season a cast-iron skillet (or Dutch oven, or griddle pan)—and how to keep that patina in good shape—you’re on your way to a lifetime of use. While the cast-iron seasoning process is more complicated than...
Sep 30, 2025, 06:57 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is entering the final season of his current contract, the typical time in a contract cycle when established NBA coaches demand or at least discuss an extension. But that isn’t Kerr’s current plan, he said on Tuesday afternoon after...
LeBron James previously exercised his $52.6 million player option for this year, but he’s currently set to enter next offseason as a free agent. When asked during media day if he thought being in a contract year will have any impact on this coming season, James provided the following answer to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “It...
PARIS — Chanel may be on the brink of a new era, with the highly anticipated debut of new creative director Matthieu Blazy early next week, but it has recommitted to the classical arts with its support of the Paris Opera Ballet. “It was so poetic – the emotions, the set, the costumes, everything felt...
Alexa PhilippouSep 28, 2025, 10:08 PM ET Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer USC star JuJu Watkins will sit out the 2025-26 college...
David SchoenfieldSep 27, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Covers MLB for ESPN.com Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995 We made it to the final weekend of the 2025 MLB regular season. It has been one wild, fun ride, especially if you’re a fan of the Milwaukee Brewers or Seattle Mariners...
Tim BontempsSep 25, 2025, 04:07 PM ET Close Tim Bontemps is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com who covers the league and what’s impacting it on and off the court, including trade deadline intel, expansion and his MVP Straw Polls. You can find Tim alongside Brian Windhorst and Tim MacMahon on The Hoop Collective podcast....