7:00 AM ET I brought this up a couple of weeks ago while pinch-hitting for Buster Olney on the Baseball Tonight podcast: Not factoring in salaries, who would you rather have for the next 10 seasons, Mike Trout or Fernando Tatis Jr.? That was just three weeks into the season, but Tatis hasn’t really slowed
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6:00 AM ET NFL NationESPN The 2020 NFL season kicks off Thursday, Sept. 10, when the Kansas City Chiefs play host to the Houston Texans. It has been an irregular offseason to say the least with OTAs and minicamps canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. While teams have been in training camp since late July,
1:20 PM BST England’s rescheduled match against the Barbarians will be played on Oct. 25 with 20,000 supporters set to attend the game at Twickenham pending approval from public health authorities, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) said on Wednesday. The match, originally scheduled to take place on June 21 was postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic
Abhishek Nayar said that the players are getting used to the conditions in the UAE.© Twitter Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) assistant coach Abhishek Nayar has said that the players are in a “great frame of mind” and they will all be “match-ready” in the coming three to four days. “Most of the guys are looking
Belgium’s Wout van Aert sprinted to victory on stage five of the Tour de France. The 25-year-old appeared from the bunch sprint to edge out Cees Bol and win in four hours, 21 minutes and 22 seconds, with Ireland’s Sam Bennett in third. That saw Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider Bennett take the green jersey off Peter Sagan,
England fast bowler Mark Wood hopes to finish a frustrating season with a flourish during an upcoming white-ball series against Australia and lay down a marker ahead of the 2021/22 Ashes. The Durham quick has been largely surplus to England’s requirements in a home season taking place against the backdrop of the coronavirus. Wood featured
11:35 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show WBA-IBF world super lightweight champion Josh Taylor has called on boxing governing bodies and promoters to ensure he faces Jose Ramirez to unify all
10:22 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Editor’s note: Tor-Kristian Karlsen is a Norwegian football scout and executive and is the former chief executive and sporting director at AS Monaco. He will write regularly for ESPN on the business of soccer and the process of scouting. In his latest column, he looks at Donny van de Beek,
8:08 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders Jon Rahm won in stunning fashion last week, holing a 66-foot putt in a playoff with Dustin Johnson, who drained a 45-footer to force extra holes. Fantasy analyst Anita Marks hit on her Rahm pick at 9-1 odds. The FedExCup playoffs now shift to Atlanta, where 30 golfers will
6:26 AM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At 20 years old, DK Metcalf lay in a hospital bed, facing the end of his college career. The redshirt sophomore wide receiver suffered a neck injury in October
6:49 AM ET If you’ve watched any of the 2020 US Open so far, you already know this year’s event is like none other. With strict rules and protocols, and the absence of fans due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the scene at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is almost hard to believe,
5:43 PM ET If there was one fight from 2019 that stood out because of the electricity of its crowd, it was the Nov. 2 “BMF” battle in Madison Square Garden, where President Trump, The Rock and a packed house watched Jorge Masvidal bloody and stop Nate Diaz after three rounds. The UFC is negotiating
7:15 AM ET For nearly a decade, the Tampa Bay Lightning have been among the most consistently entertaining and successful teams in the NHL. From a Steve Yzerman-engineered rebuild to the team’s continuation under Julien BriseBois — who has the top job after years as a loyal lieutenant — the Lightning have fielded one of
6:42 AM ET ERIK SPOELSTRA COULD have winged it. If anyone was qualified to give a talk on how to deal with a case of imposter syndrome, it was the former video coordinator who worked his way up to become head coach of the Miami Heat. But Spoelstra had come to know his young sharpshooter,
9:28 AM BST ESPN staff A four-game Bledisloe Cup series is firming as the likely scenario for Test rugby in New Zealand and Australia this year with the chances of the Rugby Championship proceeding shortening by the day, according to Newshub. While SANZAAR remains bullish about the prospects of the tournament going ahead from Nov.
5:11 PM ET Marvin Wilson needed to find his position coach. Urgently. Odell Haggins sat in a defensive line meeting room, preparing for Florida State’s bowl game last December, when Wilson walked in. “I need to see you after this meeting, coach,” Wilson said. Haggins finished up and left the meeting early to find Wilson,
7:00 AM ET College football is no stranger to controversy when it comes to crowning a national champion, but this season could be unlike any other. In an unprecedented year, with the Big Ten and Pac-12 postponing their seasons, coaches from those leagues question whether there can actually be a real champ. “If everybody’s not
7:09 AM ET Sachin Chandan Only one game on the docket for tonight, but if it is like every other game in this series, expect some high-scoring action from the Dallas Stars and the Colorado Avalanche. A popular pick to win the Stanley Cup, the Avalanche will be fighting for their playoff lives in Game