11:00 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — What a long, hard, unusual fall it has been. The Jacksonville Jaguars were roughly 10 minutes away from their first Super Bowl appearance, leading the New England Patriots by 10 points in the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship game at Gillette Stadium. Then Tom Brady engineered two touchdown
Month: September 2020
6:36 PM ET Francesco Molinari is the only player among the top 50 in the world who has yet to return to competitive golf since the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, and he has withdrawn from the U.S. Open in two weeks. But the Italian star, who won The Open in 2018 and was the 54-hole leader
6:37 PM ET Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. — For Kentucky governors, it’s a coveted perk — presenting the trophy to the Kentucky Derby winner as a huge national television audience watches. But Gov. Andy Beshear says he won’t be in the winner’s circle Saturday with the triumphant owners at Churchill Downs. Instead, the Democratic governor
5:24 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Disappointment has begun to mount among Milwaukee Bucks players inside the NBA bubble and it doesn’t have anything to do with basketball or falling behind 1-0 to the Miami Heat. The Bucks suffered a 115-104 loss to the Heat on Monday, but on the same day in Wisconsin, there was
5:22 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Andy Murray saved a match point and put together his 10th career comeback from two sets down to win his first Grand Slam contest in nearly 20 months. The 2012 US Open champion, still working his way back from a pair of operations on his right hip,
4:20 PM ET ESPN News Services BUFFALO, N.Y. — Former Buffalo Sabres forward Matt Ellis was hired on Tuesday to become the team’s director of player development under new general manager Kevyn Adams. Though it’s a first-time NHL job for the former nine-year player, Ellis spent the past four years working at Sabres-affiliated Academy of
3:05 AM IST After England were held to a 1-1 draw in their T20I series against Pakistan, we look at six talking points from the series Top-order depth As things stand, it seems England intend to use Jos Buttler at the top of the order in T20I cricket. That means Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy, Tom
1:22 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Tiz the Law is the 3-5 morning-line favorite for the 146th Kentucky Derby and will attempt to become the first winner from the No. 17 post position drawn for Saturday’s rescheduled marquee race for 3-year-olds. All the race favorites will break from the outside. Second choice Honor
3:46 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — William Byron, fresh off his first career Cup Series victory, now has a contract extension through 2022 at Hendrick Motorsports. The extension was finalized in early August and announced Tuesday, just days after Byron’s win at Daytona International Speedway earned him a berth in NASCAR’s playoffs. “I’m
2:52 PM ET Steve KimESPN Naoya Inoue’s Top Rank debut is set. The unified bantamweight titlist and ESPN’s No. 4 pound-for-pound fighter is scheduled to face Jason Moloney (21-1, 18 KOs) at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas this fall, according to Moloney’s manager, Tony Tolj. “We’re still in talks and finalizing the
12:15 PM ET Lionel Messi‘s father will meet Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu for crunch talks aimed at resolving his son’s future on Wednesday afternoon, sources have confirmed to ESPN. • Sources: Messi father in Barca talks• Sources: Arsenal to resign Ceballos• Rakitic rejoins Sevilla for €1.5m• Sources: Man Utd eye Upamecano deal• Mkhitaryan joins
7:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” When Mike Trout reported to spring training in mid-February 2020, he was 28 years old and had more career WAR through the age of 27 than any player in Major League Baseball
Jumbo-Visma rider Primoz Roglic won a thrilling finish to stage four of this year’s Tour de France as Julian Alaphilippe retained the yellow jersey. Krists Neilands led before being caught at the start of the last climb of 7.1km to this year’s first summit finish. The favourites were all in contention before Slovenian Roglic kicked
11:31 AM ET ESPN.com staff The 146th running of the Kentucky Derby will take place Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentcuky, sans fans. Usually the first race of the Triple Crown, the Derby was rescheduled from May 2 to Sept. 5 due to the pandemic. Tiz the Law took the first leg of the
7:00 AM ET ESPN.com Staff With the 2020 MLB trade deadline now in the rearview mirror, what you see on big league rosters is what you’ll get as baseball takes its turn into the stretch drive. As Major League Baseball clubs shook up their squads, we saw considerable moves up and down this week’s rankings.
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The 2020 NFL season is just over a week away, so it’s time for our annual ranking of the league’s top 100 players. What can we expect from the game’s best players? We asked a panel of 46 ESPN NFL experts to rate players based on how good they will
7:12 AM ET Through six volcanic NBA playoff games against the Utah Jazz, Jamal Murray has: Averaged 34 points. Put up 50, 42, then 50 again — the last two in season-saving wins, as the Denver Nuggets look to become the first team since the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers to rally from a 3-1 deficit. (Do
10:32 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Serena Williams nearly tripped as she scrambled to get to the ball on match point. She managed to make contact, but the ball sailed into the net and it was over. Bianca Andreescu became the 2019 US Open champion, and Williams became the runner-up in her fourth straight major final.