10:54 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is creating a minor league for top eligible prospects leading to the summer draft. The wood-bat MLB Draft League is launching with five teams and could add a sixth, MLB said Monday. Teams will play a 68-game regular season that includes an All-Star break
9:26 AM ET Walk into any NHL locker room today and you’ll hear a cacophony of languages and accents from around the world. Rewind 50 years ago and the acoustics were much different. Take the 1970 Stanley Cup champions, the Boston Bruins. Their roster had more Canadians than a season of “Letterkenny,” with U.K. native
7:00 AM ET Soccer practice was dragging one morning last spring when Vanderbilt assistant coach Kelly Keelan tried something different to break up the monotony. While the rest of the team practiced on the football field in the indoor facility, she gathered goalkeepers Sarah Fuller and Sophie Guilmette near the end zone. 2 Related “Today,”
Yuzvendra Chahal and Dhanashree Verma post for a photo, posted on Instagram.© Instagram Currently in Australia for India’s cricket tour, Yuzvendra Chahal posted a photo on social media to show his love for fiancee Dhanashree Verma. But Verma hilariously made it a point to remind him that it was her photography skills behind the adorable
9:19 AM ET ESPN News Services Three-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka will be starring in a new Japanese manga comic book series as a cartoon character in a magazine for teenage girls. Osaka’s sister, Mari, helped produce “Unrivaled Naomi Tenka-ichi” — or “world number one” — which will be running in “Nakayosi” magazine starting
When Tyson Fury returns to the ring in 2021, it will become one of the biggest boxing events of the year. Fury, one of the sport’s biggest stars, became world heavyweight champion for the first time five years ago today. But the fight, and Fury’s crowning moment, almost never happened as the English boxer’s camp
4:06 PM ET After winning two Olympic gold medals in judo, Kayla Harrison began her mixed martial arts career two years ago as a prized prospect. She has lived up to the hype, going 8-0 with six finishes and winning $1 million as the Professional Fighters League women’s lightweight tournament champion in 2019. But Harrison
Australia won the first two ODIs to clinch a series win against India.© Instagram After gaining an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match ODI series against India, Australia white-ball skipper Aaron Finch on Monday said that it is a great feeling to be able to win a series in front of the home crowd. Australia
9:00 AM ET It has been the most unpredictable of seasons, with fixture congestion, mounting injuries and the impact of COVID-19 creating unprecedented challenges for the 20 Premier League clubs. 2 Related Heading into the arduous month of December, Tottenham are the surprise leaders, Manchester City are stuck in mid-table, while Arsenal are languishing in
6:00 PM ET NFL NationESPN Week 12 in the NFL began with two blowout wins on Thanksgiving. On Sunday, the Falcons followed suit by routing the Raiders in a 37-point win. The Giants got win No. 4 on the season to move into first in the NFC East, the Titans made a statement in the
6:18 AM ET Who are the NBA free agents to watch in 2021 and 2022? The 2020 free-agent class featured less star power than normal, as the league blitzed through a condensed transaction period featuring the draft and free agency in the same week. The 2021 class has more hype, potentially featuring names such as
The British driver, who won his seventh F1 championship last week, completes a festive list including Bake Off judge Prue Leith and author Margaret Atwood.
3:21 PM ET New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones left with a hamstring injury in the third quarter of Sunday’s 19-17 victory against the Cincinnati Bengals. Colt McCoy took his place as the Giants held on for the win, leaving them tied for first place in the NFC East with the Washington Football Team. The
11:49 PM ET Left-handed starter Mike Minor and the Kansas City Royals are in agreement on a two-year deal that is pending a physical, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Minor returns to the city where he revitalized his career as a reliever in 2017. Minor, who turns 33 on Dec. 26, has since become
10:12 PM ET Florida State has seen its scheduled game nixed for the third straight week, the ACC announced Sunday. The Seminoles were scheduled to play at Duke on Saturday, but after issues with COVID-19 and contact tracing hit the team last week, the league has opted to adjust that game and will have Miami
Star opening batsman David Warner faces a battle to be fit for the India Test series after Cricket Australia said Monday he will miss the last one-day international and the three-match Twenty20 series next month. Warner limped out of Sunday’s one-day international against India after straining his groin while fielding as Australia secured the series
5:37 PM ET Gustavo Bou scored two goals and Carles Gil continued his excellent postseason with a penalty-kick score as well as an assist, as the visiting New England Revolution defeated 10-man Orlando City 3-1 in Sunday’s MLS Eastern Conference semifinal. After a disappointing regular season where Bou had just five goals and three assists,
4:59 PM ET The Kansas City Chiefs took a 17-0 lead on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday thanks to a pair of Patrick Mahomes touchdowns to Tyreek Hill. On the first, a 75-yard score, cornerback Carlton Davis was in one-on-one coverage with Hill but couldn’t keep up. Hill made the catch inside the 25