1:57 PM ET Notre Dame will resume team practices Wednesday after reporting 18 positive coronavirus tests on Monday, but the program has changed the way it will eat its pregame meals and will now have rapid antigen tests available on the sideline because of lessons learned from their outbreak, coach Brian Kelly told ESPN on
6:08 PM ET The hasty exit spoke volumes. Jose Mourinho had no desire to spend a second longer than necessary on the touchline alongside his former player and now Chelsea manager Frank Lampard. The 57-year-old — and it serves us well to be reminded of his age sometimes given the antics that are his trademark
1:21 PM ET CHICAGO — Cubs right-hander Kyle Hendricks will start Game 1 of their NL Wild Card Series against the Miami Marlins on Wednesday, manager David Ross announced. The decision was between Hendricks and Cy Young contender Yu Darvish. Darvish will take the ball in Game 2. “I [feel] like I have two aces,”
3:25 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — The House approved a bill Tuesday to create national medication and safety standards for the horse racing industry to discourage use of performance-enhancing drugs that can lead to horse injuries and deaths. The “Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act” comes after the racing industry has been hit by a
4:47 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Chad Knaus will move into a management role with Hendrick Motorsports after the season, ending his crew chief career after a record-tying seven NASCAR championships. Hendrick on Tuesday announced Knaus will become vice president of competition. He will replace Jeff Andrews, who has been in the role
11:28 AM ET Tom Hamilton Close Senior Writer • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Stephan Uersfeld On the opening weekend of the 2021-21 Bundesliga season, there were six Americans in action. Gio Reyna scored
1:55 PM ET The NFL has its first COVID-19 team outbreak. At least nine members of the Tennessee Titans have produced confirmed positive test results in the past four days, a rash of coronavirus infections that could potentially have spread during Sunday’s game against the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium. The Titans have closed
2:52 PM ET Israel Adesanya put on a spectacular performance at UFC 253. The middleweight champion’s second-round TKO of previously unbeaten Paulo Costa on Sept. 26 was as dominant a title fight victory as we’ve seen in a while. It was the kind of performance that can send a fighter skyrocketing in the rankings. Problem
IPL Points Table: Jonny Bairstow hit 53 as SRH moved up to 6th from being the bottom placed team.© BCCI/IPL SunRisers Hyderabad won their first match of the tournament as they beat Delhi Capitals with the help of some good batting by their top order and a fine performance from their bowling attack. The defeat
12:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Novak Djokovic‘s first Grand Slam action since his disqualification at the US Open went as smoothly as can be in Paris. Djokovic, the French Open’s No. 1 seed who is bidding for a second title here and an 18th major title overall, beat Mikael Ymer of Sweden 6-0, 6-2,
7:00 AM ET The 2020 NBA Finals feature one of the league’s most iconic players matching up against the franchise that helped carve his amazing legacy. But these Finals aren’t just about LeBron James versus Pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra. They’re about two red-hot basketball teams facing off for a historic championship in an unprecedented
6:55 AM ET NFL NationESPN The NFL Power Rankings are about identifying where each team stands on a week-to-week basis. But in doing that, there is often a conflict between where an NFL team is now and preconceived notions we had about it in the past. That’s what we’re exploring this week, as each NFL
9:00 AM ET During the past few months, the phrase “in these uncertain times” has entered the zeitgeist or at the very least entered the lexicon of advertising copy. The phrase also is applicable to what the National Hockey League’s newest free-agent class will experience when the horn sounds at noon ET on Oct. 9.
4:59 PM ET Last week, minutes after news broke of Houston’s fourth false start, linebacker Keith Corbin tapped out two short tweets that summed up the Cougars’ current state of mind. “Can we just play one game man,” he posted shortly after North Texas announced — like three other teams before it — that it
8:31 AM ET Associated Press Second-seeded Karolina Pliskova advanced to the second round of the French Open by beating Mayar Sherif 6-7 (9), 6-2, 6-4 on Tuesday. Sherif was the first Egyptian player to qualify for the main draw at Roland Garros. She saved five break points in the seventh game of the third set.
Lewis Hamilton has admitted he “may not always get it right” after accusing Formula 1 bosses of “trying to stop him” at the Russian Grand Prix. Hamilton lost the lead of the race as a result of a 10-second penalty for making two practice starts in the wrong place. “I may not always react the
8:55 AM ET Welcome to ESPN’s divisional boxing rankings. They change often based on what happened in each weight class the previous week. As a general rule, the rankings are based on what a fighter has accomplished in the weight division in which he is ranked, although his overall body of work is not entirely
7:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Someone asked about the best thing I saw in the 2020 Major League Baseball regular season, and my answer was baseball. Not a titanic Ronald Acuna Jr. home run or a dazzling