# ESPN Sports News Headlines by League

> ESPN Sports News Headlines by League is a paid API for AI agents from api.fadeandco.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Fetches the latest ESPN news headlines for a specified sports league, returning headline, description, published time, and ESPN article link, newest first.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.fadeandco.workers.dev/api/dev/espn-sports?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/espn-sports-news-headlines-by-league-5d65fbda
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_zeWpBumrUmh7XQGdEmdbn

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability espn-sports-news-headlines-by-league-5d65fbda
```

Example prompt: Pull the 5 latest ESPN news headlines for the NBA — just the headlines, descriptions, and links, newest first.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, structured ESPN headline data for a specific major US sports league without parsing HTML or scraping. It is ideal for news briefings, sports digests, and monitoring recent coverage for NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, or college sports. Prefer it over general web search when you want clean, structured article metadata (headline, description, timestamp, link) directly from ESPN's own feed.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid league value returns an error or empty result — must use exact enum values (nfl, nba, mlb, nhl, wnba, college-football, mens-college-basketball)
- Limit out of range (below 1 or above 25) may return a default count or error
- ESPN upstream API unavailable causes fetch failure
- No recent news published results in an empty articles array

## How this service works

ESPN latest news headlines for one league (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, WNBA, college football, men's college basketball) from ESPN's public site JSON: headline, description, published time and ESPN link. Newest first; ESPN's own feed, no scores.

## Output

A JSON object containing the league name, total article count, the ESPN source URL, a checkedAt timestamp, and an array of articles each with a URL, headline, description, published time, last modified time, and category tags. Articles are ordered newest first.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "How many headlines, 1 to 25 (default 10)"
      },
      "league": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "nfl, nba, mlb, nhl, wnba, college-football or mens-college-basketball (default nfl)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 3,
  "league": "nfl",
  "source": "https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/nfl/news?limit=3",
  "articles": [
   {
    "url": "https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50255748/chicago-bears-cairo-santos-58-yard-field-goal-patriots",
    "headline": "Bears' Santos gets redemption with game-sealing FG after 'annoying' miss vs. Pats",
    "published": "2026-10-23T07:22:53Z",
    "categories": [
     "news",
     "NFL"
    ],
    "description": "Bears kicker Cairo Santos walked away from Thursday's win over the Patriots a savior despite being haunted by a fourth-quarter miss.",
    "lastModified": "2026-10-23T07:22:53Z"
   },
   {
    "url": "https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50253179/week-7-nfl-tnf-highlights-best-plays-moments-touchdowns",
    "headline": "Week 7 NFL TNF highlights: Best plays, moments, TDs, more",
    "published": "2026-10-23T04:24:54Z",
    "categories": [
     "NFL",
     "Chicago Bears"
    ],
    "description": "Here's a look at the best plays from the Bears' win over the Patriots on TNF.",
    "lastModified": "2026-10-23T04:24:54Z"
   }
  ],
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:35:25.646Z"
 }
}
```

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