12:54 PM ET Associated Press The NHL’s deputy commissioner says the COVID-19 outbreak on the Vancouver Canucks is concerning, but Bill Daly remains confident the team will be able to complete its schedule. Daly said in an email to The Canadian Press the league believes the Canucks will return and conclude their 56-game schedule. He
3:00 PM ET We’re down to the final eight teams vying for UEFA Champions League glory; can Liverpool get revenge on Real Madrid for defeating them in the 2018 final? How will Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain fare in a rematch of last year’s decider? Are Man City facing an easy road, or will Erling
6:00 PM ET ESPN News Services Kansas is finalizing a deal to hire Northwestern administrator Travis Goff, a Sunflower State native who graduated from the school, to be its next athletic director, a source told ESPN, confirming multiple reports. Goff has been at Northwestern since 2012, most recently as deputy athletic director and assistant vice
4:06 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Three years after hailing him as a franchise savior, the New York Jets traded Sam Darnold to the Carolina Panthers on Monday, ending months of intense speculation about their quarterback plans. In return for Darnold, the No. 3 overall draft pick in 2018, the Jets received three picks
3:04 PM ET Associated Press ANOKA, Minn. — Last month’s death of “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey standout Mark Pavelich was ruled a suicide, a Minnesota medical examiner said Monday. The Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office in Anoka County said in a news release that the 63-year-old Pavelich died of asphyxia. His body was found March
3:26 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jordan Spieth got to drive down Magnolia Lane late Monday morning with a sense of relief. For the first time in nearly four years, he was a winner again Sunday on the PGA Tour, the constant scrutiny and questions concerning his troubling play now changing to talk of him
4:49 PM ET UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski said Monday that he’s feeling “much better” after a harrowing battle with COVID-19, which included being diagnosed with pneumonia and hospitalized after scans showed the infection spread throughout his lungs. The illness forced Volkanovski to postpone his March 27 title defense against Brian Ortega. “I’m a UFC
1:09 PM ET A fine weekend of football saw Bayern take control of the German Bundesliga title race with a win over rivals RB Leipzig, while Atletico Madrid’s defeat to Sevilla saw La Liga’s blown wide open. In England, Liverpool destroyed Arsenal as Manchester City continued their march to the title and, in Italy, Inter
1:59 PM ET ESPN News Services The Nationals and Braves will make up their game that was postponed Monday because of Washington’s coronavirus outbreak as part of a doubleheader Wednesday. Major League Baseball announced the change Monday while Nationals players were working out at Nationals Park. Four players on the Nationals have tested positive for
IPL 2021: Shubman Gill is set to play for Kolkata Knight Riders this season.© Kolkata Knight Riders/Twitter Shubman Gill had strong words to say to social media users who had made disparaging comments on the cricketer’s style of play in the comments section of post by Gill’s IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders. Gill commented: “i
Adam Yates finished sixth in the Itzulia Basque Country’s opening time trial, as Primoz Roglic took victory. Jumbo-Visma’s Roglic finished 28 seconds ahead of Ineos Grenadiers’ Yates after the 14km stage in Bilbao. Hugh Carty of EF Education-Nippo was one minute six seconds down, with Yates’ British team-mate Tao Geoghegan Hart a further two seconds
7:09 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Hubert Hurkacz claimed the biggest title of his career on Sunday as the 2021 Miami Open came to a close following two weeks of upsets, blockbuster showdowns and statement victories. As the fast-rising Hurkacz capitalized on the absence of some of the game’s biggest names in Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal
9:00 AM ET For nearly all of March, the Buffalo Sabres were the punchline of the NHL. They slogged through an 18-game winless streak, the longest in the salary cap era. They fired yet another coach, Ralph Krueger, as captain Jack Eichel remained sidelined with an injury. In its weekly power rankings, the Buffalo News
7:00 AM ET The battle for the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference is shaping up to be a three-team race. The Philadelphia 76ers, Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks are separated by just 1.5 games. The rest of the conference, however, is in a logjam. Right now — with the No. 4 through No.
Fakhar Zaman impressed Babar Azam with some fine stroke-play en route to his 193-run knock.© AFP Pakistan skipper Babar Azam has lauded Fakhar Zaman’s “one-man show” in the second ODI against South Africa which they lost by 17 runs on Sunday. Zaman’s valiant 193-run knock ended in the final over of the game through a
8:00 AM ET North Carolina linebacker Jeremiah Gemmel, who was on the team when UNC won five total games over the span of two dreadful seasons, said he can still remember the lackluster energy around the football facility in 2017 and 2018. Whether he was walking into the weight room or the training table, he
6:09 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona will continue to pursue the signing of Erling Haaland after meeting with his representatives last week but several sources at the club have told ESPN it will be “very difficult” to do a deal for the Borussia Dortmund striker. New Barca president Joan Laporta met with Haaland’s
7:00 AM ET Baseball players, like the rest of us, have had lots of spare time during the pandemic and in quarantine. “I’ve learned to be alone,” said Padres pitcher Blake Snell. There has been lots of learning, trapped in a hotel room or sequestered at home. There has been time to think, to experiment,