A leading team wants the Giro d’Italia to end a week early, citing a “clearly compromised” coronavirus bubble. EF Pro Cycling – winners of two of the 12 stages so far – wrote to race organisers asking for the race to end this Sunday. However, cycling’s governing body, the UCI rejected, the request. On Tuesday,
2:12 PM ET The Ottawa Senators have landed one of the last big-impact free agents, signing forward Evgenii Dadonov to a three-year contract with an annual average value of $5 million. Despite the pandemic-shortened regular season, Dadonov tallied his third straight 25-goal season for the Panthers. He did it with a career-high 15% shooting percentage
IPL Points Table: KL Rahul’s 49-ball 61 helped KXIP win their second match of the season.© BCCI/IPL Kings XI Punjab, struggling at the bottom of the table, beat Royal Challengers Bangalore for the second time this season for their second win of the season. RCB stay third in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 points
1:30 PM ET Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. After three relatively smooth weeks of SEC competition, COVID-19 caught up with the nation’s highest-profile conference within a
2:31 PM ET Ty Lue is finalizing a five-year deal to become the next coach of the LA Clippers, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Thursday. Lue, who has served as an assistant with the Clippers, has been the front-runner for the team’s vacancy since Doc Rivers was dismissed on Sept. 28, sources had told
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Ineos Grenadiers’ Jhonatan Narvaez won stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia in treacherous conditions. The Ecuadorian, 23, was the best of a breakaway group ahead of the peloton, in which Joao Almeida retained the leader’s pink jersey. Rain fell across most of the 170km stage, which started and finished in Cesenatico, causing several punctures. Mark
10:20 AM ET The biggest lie NHL free agents tell themselves is that their team is their family. The dressing room can be a band of brothers. Lifelong friendships are forged through daily routines and long playoff runs, through wives and children bonding with others in the organization. All of this is true, and all
7:00 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Clayton Kershaw‘s 2020 season at times seemed to resemble a dreamscape. There was the vintage summer, which saw him tap back into the type of stuff that seemed to be lost forever. And the dominant postseason opener, a stark reminder of the flaws in the narrative of his playoff
9:56 AM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — U.S. tennis player Sam Querrey was placed in isolation by Russian authorities after testing positive for the coronavirus but left the country on a private plane, organizers of the St. Petersburg Open said Thursday. The tournament said Querrey and his wife tested positive Sunday, the day
10:29 AM BST Wasps’ preparations for the English Premiership final suffered a setback after seven members of the club’s playing staff returned positive tests for coronavirus on Wednesday. Four players and three support staff tested positive for coronavirus and Wasps have cancelled training for the remainder of this week as an added precautionary measure. “All
1:29 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent It was meant to be a summer of possibilities for Manchester United, but as they prepare for their first game since transfer deadline day, there are again more questions than answers. Top targets missed, holes in the squad not filled, forgotten players still in the squad and growing fan frustration
6:45 AM ET The NFL trade deadline used to be a waste of time. Not anymore. While there were no actual trades on deadline day a year ago, we saw 11 significant trades in the two weeks leading up to it. The big acquisitions seemed like cornerback Jalen Ramsey (Rams) and wide receivers Mohamed Sanu
8:26 AM ET Steve KimESPN The moment has finally arrived. Through years of conflict and antagonization, individual paths to titles and finally a global pandemic, on Saturday, Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez Jr. will step between the ropes to battle for lightweight world titles from all four major sanctioning bodies at the MGM Grand Convention
8:00 AM ET The 2020 NHL free-agent frenzy has started to mellow out. The flat salary cap had teams scrambling to find the right fits under less-than-ideal financial conditions, leaving some free agents waiting to see if lucrative opportunities would still materialize. Here are the top 10 unrestricted free agents still on the market as
7:38 PM ET Fresh off one of the most spectacular — and most-viewed — knockouts in mixed martial arts history, UFC middleweight Joaquin Buckley is ready to get back to work. Buckley (11-3) has agreed to face Jordan Wright (11-0) at UFC 255 on Nov. 21. Both sides have agreed to the bout, according to
Britain’s Chris Froome will race against Tour de France runner-up Primoz Roglic at the Vuelta a Espana. Jumbo-Visma’s Roglic, 30, lost the Tour de France on the final time trial to Tadej Pogacar in September in one of the event’s most dramatic finales. Four-time Tour winner Froome, who rides for Ineos Grenadiers, is aiming to
6:30 AM ET It’s the never-ending debate among today’s NBA fans: Michael Jordan vs. LeBron James. Or should that be LeBron James vs. Michael Jordan? While arguments can be (and have been) made for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Bill Russell and other NBA greats, the modern debate over who is the greatest since