7:00 AM ET Let’s face it: The 2020 season was not college football’s finest. There were empty or partial crowds, no tailgating and no atmosphere. In the run-up to the season, all of the sport’s cracks and flaws — the lack of centralized leadership, the outdated model for treatment of athletes, even the limitations of
7:05 AM ET NFL NationESPN Every team has offseason goals. For some, such as the world champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers, it’s how to maintain the standard. For others, such as those teams that missed the postseason, it’s how to get better, particularly now that there are two extra playoff teams this season. Mandatory minicamps are
7:15 AM ET UFC 264 fight week is nearly upon us, and an enormous amount of attention is rightfully being spent on the high-stakes trilogy fight headlining the July 10 card at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor. But a second look at the pay-per-view lineup shows just how much
The Shikhar Dhawan-led Indian white-ball squad arrived in Sri Lanka on Monday. India and Sri Lanka will face-up in three ODIs and as many T20Is, beginning July 13. Rahul Dravid is India’s head coach for the tour. All-rounder Hardik Pandya shared a picture in his Instagram story informing about the arrival of the Indian contingent
3:54 PM ET Seattle Mariners pitcher Hector Santiago was ejected in the fifth inning of Sunday’s game against the Chicago White Sox after umpires inspected his glove. Santiago, 33, was pulled from the game after giving up two walks and two hits in the inning. Per the league’s new rule on inspecting pitchers for foreign
7:05 AM ET Following one of the most unique regular seasons in NHL history, the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs represented a bit of a return to normalcy, as we had a 16-team bracket, and fans came back to arenas to varying degrees across the continent. Fourteen of those teams have been eliminated, and we’re on
11:59 PM ET The first 3-pointer came from basically nothing, a simple flare on the right wing where Milwaukee Bucks‘ forward Khris Middleton caught the ball in isolation, jab stepped a couple of times, held the ball to wait for a dummy screen, then jab stepped again. There was enough space to pull, and Middleton
5:46 AM ET With the return of tennis at Wimbledon on Monday, the only thing perfectly clear about the sport’s reentry from the pandemic will be the crisp whites that players don at the All England Club over the next two weeks. The sport is in the middle of its own edgy transition. Like restaurants,
5:12 AM BST Referee Romain Poite has admitted he got a late call wrong that denied New Zealand a chance of a series victory against the British & Irish Lions in 2017 and that he trashed his Eden Park changing room in anger at his mistake. The three-Test series ended 1-1 following a 15-15 draw
3:06 PM ET BUDAPEST, Hungary — As Patrik Schick raced away to celebrate the goal that sealed the Czech Republic‘s 2-0 win against the Netherlands and a Euro 2020 quarterfinal date with Denmark, Dutch coach Frank de Boer gave a wistful look on the touchline – if only his team had a striker as reliable
6:26 PM ET Associated Press JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — First came the tears when Nelly Korda hugged her older sister and didn’t want to let go. That was followed by the spray of champagne on the 18th green to celebrate a day that will be hard for her to top even at age 22. With
South Africa’s spinners starred as they rebounded from a hammering in the first encounter of the five-match T20 International series to defeat the West Indies by 16 runs in the second fixture at the National Cricket Stadium in Grenada on Sunday. Defending what appeared to be another modest total of 166 for seven, George Linde
10:38 PM ET The Portland Trail Blazers reached an agreement on a five-year deal to hire LA Clippers assistant Chauncey Billups as the franchise’s new coach on Sunday, sources told ESPN. Billups, 44, will be introduced at a Tuesday news conference in Portland. The deal includes a team option on the fifth season, sources said.
6:00 AM ET Brady HendersonESPN RENTON, Wash. — Anyone worried that the Seattle Seahawks have yet to extend Pro Bowl strong safety Jamal Adams this late into the offseason need look no further for reassurance than the trade they made last summer to acquire him. The package the Seahawks gave the New York Jets included
8:43 PM ET Associated Press CROMWELL, Conn. — Harris English birdied the eighth hole of sudden death to win the Travelers Championship on Sunday, beating Kramer Hickok after both birdied the final hole of regulation to force the playoff. It matched the second-longest sudden-death playoff in PGA Tour history. English shot a 5-under 65 to
6:50 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Kyle Busch came through in the clutch. Even when he raced without one. Busch busted Hendrick Motorsports’ winning streak and denied the organization a shot at NASCAR history when he raced to his second victory of the season Sunday at Pocono Raceway. He needs to give
6:44 PM ET Associated Press AKRON, Ohio — Steve Stricker won the Bridgestone Seniors Players Championship on Sunday at difficult Firestone for his second victory of the year and third major title. Eight strokes ahead in the third round and four in front entering the final round, Stricker closed with an even-par 70 for a
6:30 PM ET It’s been a tumultuous June for pitchers across baseball, and none of them has operated under a brighter spotlight than New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole. On Sunday, it took one pitch for the spotlight on Cole to brighten a little more. That pitch was a 96 mph four-seam fastball with a