7:00 AM ET Every year, we here in the college football corner of ESPN.com calculate, compile and construct our college football player rankings. But this isn’t every year, is it? It’s 2020. So, as we were nearing completion of this fall’s rankings, suddenly half of those players disappeared. It made no sense. And it was
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2:33 AM ET The Dallas Stars emphatically defended goalie Ben Bishop, whose disastrous first period led to a 6-3 win for the Colorado Avalanche as they avoided elimination in Game 5 on Monday night in Edmonton. Bishop, the team’s starting goaltender in the regular season, made his first start in 18 days for the Stars
3:00 AM ET Some of the world’s best players were snapped up for a tiny fee; others cost a small fortune. But which do we think are the top moves, by position, a club has made since 2000? 2 Related In a two-part series we explore some of the best transfers to have happened across
11:41 PM ET In his first moment in the spotlight as a member of the Miami Heat last fall, Jimmy Butler failed. It was the rigorous conditioning test the Heat put players through before training camp that is legend within the league. Some athletic trainers claim it’s the most demanding such test in all of
11:27 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Virat Kohli didn’t miss cricket as much as he thought he might after the Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to a halt, as he returned to the nets for Royal Challengers Bangalore to prepare for IPL 2020. Kohli said that he embraced a break he couldn’t get otherwise before the
11:59 PM ET Brock Lesnar is on the open market. One of the biggest combat sports stars of this generation is no longer under contract with WWE, multiple sources confirmed Monday with ESPN following a report from PWInsider. Lesnar’s merchandise was pulled over the weekend from WWE’s online store. We have been down this road
10:00 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Coco Gauff did everything she could. After losing the first set and trailing 4-2 in the second to Anastasija Sevastova, the 16-year-old fought back to force a decider in her first-round match at the 2020 US Open. She staved off three match points in the final game at Louis Armstrong
7:41 PM ET Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama coach Nick Saban led dozens of his football players and other athletes on a march to protest social injustice and recent incidents of police brutality against Black men and women. The group marched the short distance Monday on the school’s campus from the Mal M. Moore
9:19 PM ET Associated Press The Zozo Championship is moving from Japan to California this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, making it the anchor of a West Coast swing in the fall portion of the PGA Tour schedule that is certain to attract strong fields. The $8 million tournament will be played Oct. 22-25
8:36 PM ET The Kansas City Chiefs moved to secure their coaching and front-office futures by agreeing to terms of contract extensions through 2025 with coach Andy Reid and general manager Brett Veach, sources confirmed Monday to ESPN. News of the pending extensions was first reported by NFL Network. Reid and Veach joined the Chiefs
10:12 PM ET The 2021 MLB draft will move from June to July 11-13 and will be held in Atlanta as part of the All-Star Game festivities, according to a memo obtained by ESPN that MLB sent to clubs Monday about changes to the draft. The draft has been held in early to mid-June for
9:41 PM ET It’s been only two weeks since Jon Jones willingly vacated the UFC’s 205-pound championship, but he’s already eyeing several potential fights at heavyweight. Jones (26-1) took to social media on Monday to express interest in a fight against either current heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic or former champion and professional wrestling star Brock
2:48 PM ET Jeff Carlisle Close U.S. soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Austin Lindberg With the MLS is Back Tournament a distant memory and the regular season well and truly underway, with a schedule jammed full of matches, ESPN’s Power Rankings make their long-awaited return. With
7:03 PM ET New Orleans Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram won the NBA’s Most Improved Player award on Monday. Ingram, 22, received 42 first-place votes from a panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters and earned 326 total points. He beat out Miami Heat big Bam Adebayo, who finished in second place with 38 first-place votes (295
4:44 PM ET Daniel Cormier said Monday that he won’t need surgery for the torn cornea he suffered in his Aug. 15 unanimous-decision loss to Stipe Miocic, which Cormier agreed was the right call by the judges. Miocic inadvertently poked Cormier in his left eye during the third round, but Cormier was able to finish
5:37 PM ET Big Ten presidents and chancellors voted 11-3 to postpone the fall football season, the league confirmed Monday in a brief and two affidavits filed in response to a lawsuit from eight Nebraska players. The Big Ten’s brief targets “three incorrect and unsupportable assertions” in the players’ lawsuit, which focused on the vote
7:00 AM ET Once again, it’s elimination Monday. The Colorado Avalanche and Boston Bruins — two popular Stanley Cup picks — both need to win out in their series, or they’ll leave the bubble. That also means the Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning are a win away from making it to the conference finals.
5:21 PM ET Steve KimESPN The WBO has ordered Jose Ramirez, just days removed from a title defense over Viktor Postol this past weekend, to begin negotiations with mandatory challenger Jack Catterall. Gustavo Olivieri, the in-house counsel for the WBO, confirmed to ESPN that both parties have 20 days to reach an agreement before the