8:00 PM ET Ricky Williams smoked marijuana a few times in high school, and a couple of times when he played football for the University of Texas. But the first time he noticed the drug helped him relax was during his senior year of college. “I had a really bad breakup with my girlfriend,” Williams
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6:58 PM ET The NHL is hoping its players can return to local team training facilities at “some point in the latter half of May,” if local restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic will allow it. “We are not targeting a specific date at this point in time,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN via
6:47 PM ET Linebacker Clay Matthews is filing a grievance against the Los Angeles Rams over $2 million in unpaid guarantees, sources told ESPN. Former Rams Matthews and running back Todd Gurley — who were released by the team on March 19 — have publicly vented their frustrations over non-payments, and Matthews is doing something
5:13 PM ET With the postponement of the Olympic Games by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Golf Federation announced Wednesday that it was also pushing back the qualifying deadline by the same timeframe. Players will now earn Official Golf Ranking points through June 21, 2021 for men and June 28, 2021
5:22 PM ET Kansas State announced Wednesday that football coach Chris Klieman and men’s basketball coach Bruce Weber agreed to a 13% salary reduction for the upcoming year because of financial losses related to the coronavirus pandemic. Additionally, all athletic department employees making more than $150,000 per year will have their salaries reduced by 10%.
4:27 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Matt Kenseth had a blissful year of retirement. He had time to travel with his wife and four daughters, made his first visit to Europe and took up marathon running. It was free time he never had in 22 years of racing at NASCAR’s national level. “It
4:59 PM ET The New York Islanders and the NHL’s Seattle expansion franchise said their respective arena construction projects remain on schedule despite the coronavirus pandemic and are still expected to be open beginning in the 2021-22 season. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week that restarting construction projects, with strict health guidelines, is
8:00 AM ET Anthony Treash Rounding out our series of college football’s top 10 players at every position for 2020, we finish with safeties. There are a couple of Power 5 teams lucky enough to have multiple players featured here. Using a combination of Pro Football Focus grades and PFF’s wins above average (WAA) metric,
4:30 PM ET ESPN staff The NCAA’s top governing body said Wednesday that it supports a proposal to allow college athletes to sign endorsement contracts and receive payment for other work, provided that the schools they attend are not involved in any of the payments. A working group assembled to evaluate potential ways to modernize
3:40 PM ET The PGA Tour Champions announced a series of changes to its schedule Wednesday as professional golf continues to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Among them: the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in Endicott, New York, set for Aug. 10-16, has been canceled. In its place, the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship in Akron, Ohio,
5:31 PM ET The 2020 NFL draft was amazing for a variety of reasons, but certainly, for fantasy purposes, it was a fascinating one. Such a deep class, and with so many situations that have been affected, that this is going to be a long column. As a result, I’m blowing off my usual opening
1:40 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Secretariat is the early 7-2 favorite for this weekend’s virtual Kentucky Derby, an animated race between all 13 Triple Crown winners on the day the Derby would have been held before the coronavirus pandemic postponed it. The virtual Derby will use computer-generated imagery of the 13 horses
9:02 AM ET In “The Last Dance,” we witness Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls en route to their sixth and final NBA championship. It’s been a trip, transporting us back in time to a style of play that we will never see again. Since the Bulls’ run to the 1998 title, we’ve seen dynasties
6:50 AM ET After the hype suggesting that this would be a wild 2020 NFL draft because of the coronavirus-enforced information gap between organizations, the weekend actually went mostly by the book. Teams generally stayed put and chose the prospects or attacked the positions we would have expected. Most of the trades were mild. Last
6:30 PM ET With the coronavirus pandemic putting a halt to virtually all sporting events and holiday celebration around the world, the ESPN family plans to deliver with a big-name Cinco de Mayo boxing card of classic fights. Beginning Tuesday, ESPN Deportes and Top Rank plan to commemorate what is traditionally one of the biggest
May 1, 2020 Empty arenas? A private island with a cage in the sand? No big deal, many MMA veterans say. We asked fighters about the strangest circumstances they’ve ever encountered at a fight, and most had a tale that tops anything we’re going to see in the strange new world of fights in coming
7:37 AM ET Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone is sitting in front of the bar he recently built on his 10-acre BMF Ranch in Edgewood, New Mexico. Exactly 100 days have passed since he suffered a 40-second knockout loss to Conor McGregor at UFC 246, and he is about to address it publicly for the first time.
7:00 AM ET On Nov. 18, 2018, Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith was injured in the third quarter of a Week 11 game against the Houston Texans. The injury was severe. This is a first-person account, from Smith’s wife, Elizabeth, to ESPN’s Stephania Bell, of the untold story of what happened next. Watch the full