9:18 PM ET High school students in one Florida county will literally cross the finish line on their high-school years when they receive their diplomas on the finish line at Daytona International Speedway. Meanwhile, students in a Texas county will fittingly celebrate their graduation in victory lane at Texas Motor Speedway, with family members watching
Month: May 2020
8:50 PM ET Associated Press Widespread testing for the coronavirus will be crucial to having college sports in the fall, especially contact sports such as football and basketball, the NCAA’s chief medical officer said Friday. Dr. Brian Hainline expressed cautious optimism that college sports could be played during the fall semester, as long as leaders
8:27 PM ET Doug KezirianESPN Close ESPN Sports Betting Analyst Host of Daily Wager Behind The Bets podcast host As he enters a season full of unknowns, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick is still considered a constant by oddsmakers. Caesars Sportsbook has posted Belichick as a 7-1 favorite to win the Coach of the
6:11 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars have declined the fifth-year option on running back Leonard Fournette for the 2021 season. It’s an unsurprising and expected move considering the team was attempting to trade the former fourth overall pick for a month before and during the recent draft. Fournette will make $4.168 million
7:05 PM ET Steve KimESPN WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury said he no longer plans to retire after two more fights and instead hopes to keep boxing until age 40. “I’m going to fight on till I’m 40 years old,” he told ESPN on Thursday. “I’ve been thinking about it, and there isn’t much else
8:47 PM ET The next few UFC cards have fallen into place. A schedule and some sense of normalcy has been restored. The big questions now revolve around who can gain a foothold in his or her respective division. The UFC’s main event on May 13 pits top light heavyweights Anthony Smith against Glover Teixeira.
7:27 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Motor Speedway could be the first major sporting venue to have fans back in the stands this summer. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb announced a five-stage plan Friday to reopen the state with the final phase tentatively scheduled to include a return to sporting venues on July 4
6:15 PM ET The Boston Bruins have signed goalie Jaroslav Halak to a one-year contract extension, the team announced Friday. The deal is worth $2.25 million, per the Bruins. He was set to become a free agent in the offseason. The 34-year-old Halak is in his second season with Boston. Before play was suspended due
May 1, 2020 Jeff Wagenheim FALL RIVER, Mass. — The heavy bag was taking a beating. Thump. Thump. The assault of low kicks from the tree-trunk legs of Yorgan De Castro was unrelenting, as ominous as an approaching thunderstorm. Thump. Thump. He looked like he could continue like this for days. But seconds later De
5:19 PM ET Universal Tennis Rating has created two new events to help kickstart live tennis during the coronavirus shutdown, both of them four-player round-robin exhibitions that will be played on a private court West Palm Beach, Fla.,with a skeleton staff and enhanced safety precautions — but no spectators. The UTR Pro Match Series exhibition
5:05 PM ET UFC president Dana White announced on Friday the official lineups for UFC Fight Night events on May 13 and May 16 in Jacksonville, Florida. The two cards are part of the UFC’s effort to resume normal operations in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic shutting down much of the sports world. The
7:45 AM ET It had to be LSU that landed the final blow. You knew the battle was almost over when Nick Saban’s Alabama changed its stripes, opened up its offense and kept winning. When the Los Angeles Rams nearly won the Super Bowl with a quarterback from an Air Raid offense, then the Kansas
7:00 AM ET FOR YEARS, MICHAEL JORDAN and Kobe Bryant had been protective of their relationship. Jordan would call Bryant his “little brother,” Bryant would call Jordan his “big brother,” and they’d praise each other’s work ethic and accomplishments. But rarely would either volunteer much more, each man knowing all too well that any glimpse
4:20 PM ET Tennessee quarterback Brian Maurer, hoping to bring awareness to the importance of mental health, on Friday detailed in an Instagram post that he was planning to kill himself on Jan. 22 before receiving a phone call from his mother that day. “I thought I lost my battle with depression and my pain
4:55 PM ET As ownership support grows for the idea, commissioner Adam Silver and the NBA board of governors continued discussions Friday about delaying the start of the 2020-2021 season until December, sources told ESPN. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NBA’s thinking and planning has progressed on the idea independent of whether the 2019-2020 season
8:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN Tyson Fury’s team might be hard at work trying to make a late 2020 fight against Anthony Joshua a reality, but Fury, the lineal heavyweight champion and WBC titleholder, has had his focus centered on home. He’s been making the most of his time the past six-plus weeks as the
2:58 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN In the early hours of Sunday, April 26, after an extensive process of reviewing candidates, Arturas Karnisovas decided on the Chicago Bulls‘ new general manager, Marc Eversley. ESPN was re-airing the third and fourth episodes of “The Last Dance” docuseries chronicling Chicago’s last NBA championship team, and Eversley was watching
3:11 PM ET Jeremy Lin says he was surprised, humbled and ultimately grateful after the New York Knicks reached out to propose taking a week on MSG Network to showcase interviews and 2012 games related to the brief but memorable phenomenon that was “Linsanity.” In an interview with Rachel Nichols for ESPN’s The Jump that