5:02 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR already has started adjusting the 2021 calendar. The first three races of the season, which begins Feb. 14 with the Daytona 500, all will be held in Florida now. NASCAR shifted the February race scheduled for Fontana, California, to the road course at Daytona International Speedway. It swapped the
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2:13 PM ET ESPN News Services First baseman Carlos Santana and the Kansas City Royals are in agreement on a two-year, $17 million deal, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Tuesday. Santana became a free agent after his $17.5 million option for 2021 was declined after the season as part of a payroll purge
3:53 PM GMT Former England captain Chris Robshaw and scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth are among 13 players who have been hit with suspensions for their COVID-19 breaches which saw the Barbarians’ fixture against England cancelled. The game was set to take place in October but was called off after a number of Barbarians players breached COVID-19
Dec 8, 2020 Argentina won’t forget their 2020 tour of Australia anytime soon. The Pumas’ Tri Nations campaign may have come to a disappointing end on Saturday, when the curtain came down on the tournament at Bankwest Stadium, but the 16-all draw against Australia will be merely a footnote of their rollercoaster few months Down
7:45 AM ET The 2019-20 NHL season started on Oct. 2, 2019, and didn’t finish until Sept. 28, 2020, thanks to a pause of nearly five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. December is usually when we start to hear significant trade rumblings begin — Taylor Hall was traded on Dec. 16 of last season
2:55 PM ET Associated Press Sofia Kenin collected the WTA Player of the Year award on Tuesday after winning the Australian Open in January for her first Grand Slam title and finishing as the runner-up at the French Open in October. The 22-year-old from Florida went 16-2 at the three major tournaments played in 2020
6:54 PM ET Claressa Shields has not wasted any time jumping into mixed martial arts training. ESPN’s top pound-for-pound women’s boxer signed with PFL to compete in MMA earlier this week. And on Friday, she arrived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to train at JacksonWink MMA with her friend Jon Jones, one of the best UFC
1:18 PM ET UFC 256 has lost two more fights because of coronavirus, but the event also has named a replacement fighter for a third bout that previously had been canceled because of COVID-19. Dwight Grant (10-3), who was to face middleweight Li Jingliang (17-6) in an early prelim on Saturday’s card in Las Vegas,
1:27 PM ET The annual rivalry game between Michigan and Ohio State has been canceled due to an increase in COVID-19 cases over the past week within the Wolverines’ program, the school announced. The decision was made after conversations with medical experts, health department officials and university administration. “The number of positive tests has continued
12:16 PM ET Tim MacMahon Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 James Harden indicated to the Houston Rockets before the beginning of training
Ben Stokes paid tribute to his father after scoring a century for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2020.© BCCI/IPL Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Rajasthan Royals on Tuesday mourned the death of England all-rounder Ben Stokes’ father Ged Stokes, who died after a year-long battle with brain cancer at the age of 65. Stokes plays for
6:50 AM ET NFL NationESPN Finally, the NFL Power Rankings don’t have to deal with any more byes, as every team has had its scheduled bye week. That makes this the perfect time to figure out which NFL players and coaches have the most at stake during the season’s final month. From players who are
7:27 AM ET Jon Jones was in his Albuquerque, New Mexico, living room in front of a projection television on July 25. UFC Fight Night aired that evening, and Jones had a keen eye on the undercard as Alexander Gustafsson, one of Jones’ main light heavyweight rivals, was making his heavyweight debut against former champion
India vs Australia: Aaron Finch greets Virat Kohli after the third T20I.© AFP Australia skipper Aaron Finch said he was feeling “very good” after his side produced a brilliant performance to bounce back and register a win in the third T20I against India on Tuesday. Australia defeated India by 12 runs in the match which
9:21 AM ET The NHL and NHL Players’ Association have cleared their financial hurdles and are pushing forward with planning talks for the 2020-21 season. The sides are now aiming for a Jan. 13 start date, with either a 52- or 56-game schedule, sources confirmed to ESPN. The sides have communicated daily since Thursday, and
10:28 AM GMT England will host world champions South Africa at Twickenham during their 2021 Autumn International series, a rematch of the 2019 Rugby World Cup final in Yokohama which the Springboks won to secure their third title. Eddie Jones’s side will play Australia the week before and are lining up a third match against
7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN In a normal year, baseball’s winter meetings are a gathering of team executives of all stripes, player agents and journalists where the hot stove starts gaining steam and the trade and free-agent markets start buzzing. This, of course, is not a normal year. Instead of crowding into the lobby of
Lewis Hamilton says he is trying to get in shape to return for the final Grand Prix of the season this weekend after contracting coronavirus. He requires a negative test before he can leave isolation in Bahrain. “It has been one of the hardest weeks I’ve had for some time,” the world champion said in