MLB's Ken Griffey Jr Reveals Why He Never Signed With The NY Yankees

The biggest names in sports and entertainment came together on Wednesday night to honor the year’s best, most influential and inspiring athletes at the 2023 ESPY Awards.

Charna Flam The ESPYS are set to return on Wednesday, July 12 at The Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. ESPN’s annual ceremony will air live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET, and be available to stream via DirecTV, Hulu+ Live TV and Sling TV. DirecTV Free Trial Buy Now The biggest names in sports will attend the upcoming ceremony to recognize nominees and honor winners in over 20 categories such as best athlete, men and women’s sports, breakthrough athlete, athlete with a disability, record-breaking performance, championship performance and comeback athlete.

Some of the biggest names in sports are expected to take home a silver statue at this year’s ESPY Awards.  

Alex Rodriguez had an incredible baseball career, and while some athletes can cross over sports it’s a good thing A-Rod stuck to the diamond.On Friday, the retired professional MLB player shared a hilarious video on the basketball court, attempting to make some three-point shots. “This is Why I Played Baseball,” he wrote over the video.A-Rod tried his best, ending with 0 three-point baskets.

Following her recent health scare, Madonna has canceled her summer and fall North American tour, with plans to reschedule the dates later.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The first major game centered on Marvel’s Black Panther will let you unfurl your claws and assume the mantle of Wakanda’s superhero protector… in a few years. Electronic Arts announced Cliffhanger Games, its new triple-A development studio based in Seattle, is working on a third-person, single-player Black Panther game in collaboration with Marvel Games. EA doesn’t have an expected release date for the title at this point, saying “we’re still early in development with a long road ahead.” “If you’re looking to take on an incredible next career move, we invite you to join our team, which we will be building over the next few years,” EA said in a blog post announcing Cliffhanger.

Thania Garcia Lids and the Topps Company are teaming with the Major League Baseball Players Association to host their annual Players Party in Seattle during MLB All-Star Week, and they’ve tapped Jack Harlow and Fat Joe as headliners. Following the T-Mobile Home Run Derby, the Players Party will take place at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle on July 10. The exclusive, invite-only event will feature performances by multi-time Grammy nominees Jack Harlow and Fat Joe. The hip-hop acts will be joined by a star-studded list of attendees including Ken Griffey Jr, MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark, Lids President Bob Durda, Fanatics Collectibles’ Mike Mahan and Michael Rubin,, Lids President Bob Durda and the 2023 MLB All-Stars, who are members of the MLBPA.

Jimmy Cordero is off the field and will be for the forseeable future.

Beyoncé is making some tough announcements.

Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout from the Los Angeles Angels, and Freddie Freeman, J.D. Martinez, and Mookie Betts from the Los Angeles Dodgers were named as starters to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, set for July 11 in Seattle.

Melanie Lynskey is remembering her friend and former co-star, Julian Sands. On Wednesday, the actress took to social media to pay tribute to the actor, who was confirmed dead five months after disappearing during a hike.«Julian Sands. I met you on the set of Rose Red in 2000.

Alicia Keys is hitting the road again for her most adventurous tour yet. The 42-year-old singer is embarking on her  on June 28, and she gave ET's Denny Directo an exclusive first look at the incredible setup she has in store for her fans.«I'm thrilled, I'm so excited,» Keys tells ET about her upcoming tour, gushing about the expansive stage custom-made for her shows. «Honestly, the lights, the content, these big, huge screens and everything is just really artistic, beautiful, powerful and fun.

Kelsea Ballerini felt anything but sad while singing one of her recent breakup songs thanks to her boyfriend, Chase Stokes.

"Sleepless In Seattle" is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its release. In the movie, newly widowed Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) moves to Seattle with his son, who, in an attempt to get his father back into the dating game, calls into a talk-radio show.

EXCLUSIVE: Sad update on the plan to bring the story about the 2021 California School for the Deaf football team to the small screen; the limited series is not moving forward.

Rosie O’Donnell will probably never be friends with Ellen DeGeneres, and honestly, we can’t really blame her!

EXCLUSIVE: Lana Condor (To All The Boys franchise), Andrew Koji (Bullet Train), Ross Butler (Shazam! franchise), Sung Kang (Fast & Furious franchise) and Elodie Yung (The Cleaning Lady) are among those set to star in Worth the Wait, a romantic comedy marking the U.S. directorial debut of award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker Tom Shu-Yu Lin (The Garden of Evening Mists), which has wrapped production in Vancouver and Kuala Lumpur.

EXCLUSIVE: As Denver throws a parade for the Nuggets, who just captured their first NBA championship after 47 seasons in the league, a new documentary project is poised to shine a light on one of the team’s all-time greats.

Rosie O’Donnell and the late Barbara Walters had their ups and downs from cohosting The View together and beyond.

Tom Hanks had two rom-com hits with Meg Ryan, "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You’ve Got Mail," and it turns out there could have been a third if he hadn’t turned down "When Harry Met Sally." On the "Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi" podcast, Hanks’ wife, Rita Wilson, revealed the reason he turned down the iconic movie. "People probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered ‘When Harry Met Sally,’ and he turned it down because he was going through a divorce, and he was very happy to be not married," Wilson explained. "And so, he could not understand that a person going through a divorce would have anything other than just like, ‘I’m so happy,’" she continued.