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” Just like that, the fastest, weirdest, pandemickiest baseball season ever has come and gone. Mathematics holds that a 60-game schedule is shorter than the standard 162, but the 2020 season has whistled
7:00 AM ET For nearly two months, the National Hockey League has kept the teams in its postseason tournament inside “bubbles” that it helped construct with the NHL Players’ Association in an effort to safely finish the 2019-20 season after it was paused because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially there were two: The 12 teams
7:00 AM 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. Like many Big Ten fans, James Franklin spent the second Sunday in September frantically searching for good news.
3:37 AM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — After his shot dropped to beat the buzzer, win the game and lift the Los Angeles Lakers to just two wins away from their first NBA Finals appearance since 2010, Anthony Davis shouted out one word that said it all: “Kobe!” Davis’ 3-pointer from the left wing
6:40 AM ET We know Florida Man as a popular meme that mocks the bizarre, at times inconceivable behavior that seems to epitomize the state. But human beings are so much more complex than that. So what, exactly, is a Florida Man? We think a Florida Man is adventurous. Zany. Unencumbered. We think a Florida
7:00 AM ET Just like fantasy owners around the country, the NFL Power Rankings crew is concerned about the rash of injuries to skill players around the league. So while we did our usual job of ranking every team, we went a step further and asked the NFL Nation writers to pick out an under-the-radar
Dinesh Karthik is possibly one of the most undervalued cricketers in India, getting the rawest of deals through most of his international career. He was unfortunately playing in the times of MS Dhoni, so was always playing second fiddle as a wicketkeeper. Then when the new captain came, the younger Rishabh Pant was preferred, that
3:45 AM BST The South African Rugby Union (SA Rugby) has placed the Southern Kings into voluntary liquidation because of debts of R55 million ($3.37 million) and no chance of generating any income this year. The Kings, based in Port Elizabeth, were withdrawn from all competition last month due to their financial position following a
11:10 PM ET After a 4-1 win for the Dallas Stars in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, the Tampa Bay Lightning evened things up in Game 2 on the strength of a three-goal first period. The Stars would prove a tough out, bringing it to a one-goal deficit and fighting to the end,
11:45 PM ET LAS VEGAS — As Mike Tyson infamously said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. And in a town that has seen so many of his world championship fights, it seemed only fitting that the Las Vegas Raiders in general, Derek Carr in particular, had to come off
7:00 AM ET Did you think we would get here? With one week remaining in this shortened, 60-game season, without the benefit of a bubble to keep the players completely isolated from the coronavirus, the 30 teams and 1,295 different players who have worn a major league uniform in 2020 are going to make it
9:06 PM ET NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan announced Monday night that they will field a car for the 2021 Cup Series season. Their driver: Bubba Wallace. “Bubba has shown improvement since joining the Cup series, and we believe he’s ready to take his career to a higher level,” Hamlin wrote. Added Jordan:
3:49 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Billie Jean King and the other members of the Original 9 who laid the groundwork for the women’s professional tennis tour are the first group nominated together for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. They join Jonas Bjorkman, Sergi Bruguera, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Lleyton Hewitt, Lisa Raymond
2:16 PM ET The Premier League had its first heavyweight battle as Liverpool handled Chelsea, league play began in the German Bundesliga and Italian Serie A, plus we got a good look at Real Madrid. It’s Monday, and Gab Marcotti reacts to the biggest moments in the sport of football from the past week. Jump
7:39 PM ET Former Bellator MMA champion Michael Chandler believes he’s deserving of a UFC lightweight title shot but says he’s willing to take a fight in order to prove it. Chandler (21-5) signed with the UFC this month, bringing a 10-year relationship with Bellator to an end. The 34-year-old was a former three-time lightweight
5:42 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — One woman who was entered in French Open qualifying tested positive for the coronavirus and was dropped from the field Monday. The French tennis federation did not identify the player, who must isolate for seven days, the federation said. Women’s qualifying is scheduled to begin Tuesday. The news
1:15 PM ET Shaka Hislop Shaka Hislop is a founding member and honorary president of Show Racism the Red Card, a UK-based anti-racism education charity founded in 1995. A graduate of Howard University, Hislop played professionally as a goalkeeper for Reading, Newcastle, West Ham, Portsmouth and FC Dallas. He played internationally for Trinidad and Tobago
French cycling team Arkea-Samsic says it will take action if an investigation into alleged doping offences during the Tour de France finds evidence of wrongdoing. French police searched the team hotel last week as part of an anti-doping investigation, the team’s general manager said. “It concerned a very limited number of riders,” Emmanuel Hubert said.