ESPN MCP Server: live scores and sports API
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Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI assistants to ESPN sports data through MCP. Get live scores, standings, box scores, play-by-play, rosters, schedules, odds, athlete stats, rankings and news across NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, soccer, F1 and UFC, with no ESPN API key.
All notable changes to this Actor are documented here.
The format follows Keep a Changelog .
BREAKING CHANGE: game dates and times are now rendered in US Eastern time instead of UTC.
Every date and time was previously formatted in the container's timezone, which is UTC. Games starting in the evening US time therefore appeared on the following calendar day. An event tipping off at 7:30 PM ET on 22 November was reported as 23 November. Because NBA, NFL and NHL games typically start between 19:00 and 22:30 ET, most rendered dates were wrong by one day.
Affected tools: espn_scoreboard, espn_live_scoreboard, espn_game_summary, espn_team_schedule, espn_athletes.
If you parse or store dates returned by these tools, expect them to shift by one day for evening games.
7:30 PM EST. Date-only outputs are resolved in the target timezone but carry no suffix, since a date is not a clock time.date unavailable rather than the string Invalid Date.timezone parameter on the five tools above. Accepts any IANA name, for example Europe/Paris. Defaults to America/New_York, the ESPN home market. An invalid value is rejected before any request is sent to ESPN, so it is never charged.espn_play_by_play had been missing from the README tool table since it shipped, and .actor/output_schema.json still advertised twelve tools. Only .actor/actor.json states this Actor's current tool count now, and a test holds every occurrence of it to the number of registered tools while forbidding one anywhere else.CHANGELOG.md, so there is a single place to keep current rather than three.