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. By MrBridge (mr-bridge.com)
All notable changes to this Actor are documented here.
The format follows Keep a Changelog .
The published connection instructions did not work. Claude Code users were told to open a Settings screen that client does not have, and the Claude Desktop setup depended on an npm package, @anthropic/mcp-proxy, that does not exist and answers 404. Both are replaced, and the last note in this entry says how each new procedure was checked.
claude_desktop_config.json procedure is gone, along with its Windows and macOS file paths, the proxy command and the restart step, because a remote MCP server needs none of them.claude mcp add --transport http --scope user espn with an Authorization: Bearer header naming an environment variable. The token is no longer published inside the URL, and its value is not written to .claude.json. Where the variable itself comes from is your call, and the section says so rather than promising anything about your shell history. The scope is stated because Claude Code otherwise stores the server in the current project alone, where it stops existing as soon as you work elsewhere.mcp__espn__*. The previous mcp__ESPN__* matched no tool, so the shortcut it promised never worked.APIFY_TOKEN, and URL-only interfaces fall back to ?token=.How each procedure was checked, since the old one was written from memory and that is how it went wrong.
What you are charged for is narrower. A call rejected during input validation, a call rejected by ESPN, and a technical failure are no longer charged. Naming a team, game or player identifier that does not exist now costs nothing, and neither does an ESPN outage or a timeout.
content and isError, so published Task pages can render an Output fields section. Results remain delivered over MCP HTTP. No Dataset item is written.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.