11:07 AM ET ESPN.com staff The 147th running of the Kentucky Derby will take place Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Back in its usual May spot, the Derby will kick off the Triple Crown. Essential Quality drew the 14 post and opened as the morning-line favorite at 2-1, ahead of Rock Your World,
11:40 AM BST Wales centre George North will miss the British & Irish Lions tour in South Africa due to a serious knee injury, it was announced on Monday. North, 29, ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) when he played for Ospreys against Cardiff Blues on Saturday. North’s injury came when he appeared to have
The Canadian Grand Prix has been cancelled and will be replaced on its 11-13 June date by a race at Turkey’s Istanbul Park track. It is the second successive year the Montreal event has been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Travel restrictions made it impossible to enter Canada without a mandatory 14-day quarantine, said
7:00 AM ET Anthony OlivieriESPN.com MONTHS AFTER THE 1998 NBA Finals, Michael Jordan sat on one side of a giant table inside a Manhattan conference room. It was the site of a bargaining session between NBA owners and players. The league was embroiled in a lockout. The season was in jeopardy. But Jordan had other
MS Dhoni is married to Sakshi Singh Dhoni, and they have a daughter.© Instagram MS Dhoni was photographed with his daughter in two adorable pictures, posted on Instagram. The pictures were uploaded via Ziva‘s Instagram account, and Dhoni can be seen holding his daughter with a picturesque background. The former India captain is married to
6:14 AM ET Associated Press Long before Kendrick Carmouche started riding horses growing up in Louisiana, Black jockeys were synonymous with the sport. Black riders were atop 13 of the 15 horses in the first Kentucky Derby in 1875 and won 15 of the first 28 editions of the race. Everything has changed since: Carmouche
7:55 PM ET UFC middleweight Chris Weidman posted X-rays of his broken leg — pre- and post-surgery — on Tuesday as he made his way home following a gruesome injury at UFC 261 on Saturday. Weidman posted the images to his social media accounts, along with a video of him and his family flying from
4:12 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball would consider expansion fees in the range of $2.2 billion for new franchises, though there are no current plans to add teams. Commissioner Rob Manfred spoke Tuesday during SporticoLive’s online discussion of its estimates to baseball franchise valuations. The company estimated the average MLB
9:00 AM ET ESPN staff Not every NFL Hall of Famer was a top-10 NFL draft pick, and not every Pro Bowler was selected in the first round. In fact, the talent that comes out of the second half of the NFL draft seems to keep getting better year after year as the draft has
1:20 AM ET The Golden State Warriors were stuck on 12 points for nine minutes and 38 seconds, the NBA’s longest scoring drought in almost a dozen years, during a 133-103 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday. The Mavs scored 28 points during that stretch, matching the second-biggest scoring run in the NBA over
8:30 AM ET Kamaru Usman has risen to the top of the game, taking over the No. 1 spot in the ESPN pound-for-pound men’s MMA rankings. Usman (19-1) retained his UFC welterweight championship with a dazzling knockout of Jorge Masvidal on Saturday, his 18th consecutive victory and fourth title defense. He takes over the top
8:12 AM ET Wide receiver Antonio Brown is re-signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a one-year contract, his agent told NFL Network on Wednesday. Brown’s deal could be worth up to $6.25 million, his agent said. He is guaranteed $3.1 million, including a $2 million signing bonus. The re-signing means the Buccaneers are bringing
6:13 AM ET Coming off last week’s team event in Louisiana, the PGA Tour returns to traditional play this week for the Valspar Championship. Paul Casey won the last two times the event was played, in 2018 and 2019, at Innisbrook in Palm Harbor Florida. Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers
6:48 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. There have been many surprises during the 2021 NHL season, a campaign that has been quite different than usual thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, one reality on April 28 that shocks
5:09 AM ET WWE superstar Drew McIntyre claims WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is “stalking” him for a match. McIntyre, a two-time WWE Champion, has been called out by Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) multiple times in interviews and on social media. Fury’s sole WWE appearance came in October 2019 when he faced Braun Strowman at
7:00 AM ET While he doesn’t attract as much attention as some of his contemporaries, Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema continued to write his name into the Champions League history books against Chelsea. After Madrid fell behind early on when Christian Pulisic created his own piece of history by scoring the opening goal, Benzema scored
7:00 AM ET With the 2021 NHL season winding down, some playoff races have yet to be determined — but each team’s identity has been clarified. For this week’s ESPN NHL Power Rankings, we identified the breakthrough player for all 31 teams. How we rank: The ESPN hockey editorial staff submits selections ranking teams 1
6:09 AM BST All Blacks superstar Beauden Barrett has reaffirmed his desire to return to the No. 10 jersey at Test level, declaring his time in Japan with Suntory Sungoliath has motivated him to become better than ever in the playmaking hotseat. Barrett, a two-time winner of World Rugby’s Player of the Year award at