4:37 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hall of Famer Bill Mott has become the seventh trainer in history with 5,000 wins. Moon Over Miami won the third race at Churchill Downs on Saturday by a length after being saddled by Mott’s assistant Kenny McCarthy. Mott was at Belmont Park in New York, where
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Lewis Hamilton has announced plans to set up a commission in his name to increase diversity in motorsport. The world champion said he wants the Hamilton Commission to make “real, tangible and measurable change”. “Despite my success in the sport, the institutional barriers that have kept F1 highly exclusive persist,” he said in a column
4:26 PM ET All-Star guard Victor Oladipo plans to ramp up activity with the Indiana Pacers starting next week and evaluate his repaired torn quad tendon prior to making a final commitment to playing in the season’s restart in Orlando, he told ESPN on Saturday. Oladipo, 28, is hopeful to return to play with the
3:21 PM ET Kansas State has suspended all football workouts for 14 days following the most recent coronavirus test results, the school said Saturday. As of Friday, 14 athletes out of 130 tested across sports were positive for COVID-19. They are in self-isolation for 10 days and until the patient is without fever for 72
4:19 PM ET ESPN News Services NASCAR’s return to racing shifts to Talladega Superspeedway, with new rules in place after Ryan Newman‘s frightful crash in the season-opening Daytona 500. The Alabama track will admit up to 5,000 fans Sunday — with at least two organizations facing a coronavirus scare — while NASCAR will be on
1:57 PM ET Associated Press With the New Jersey Devils missing out on the NHL’s 24-team return from the pause caused by the novel coronavirus, center Nico Hischier is putting his extended offseason to good use. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2017 draft is fulfilling his military obligation to Switzerland, which has a
12:35 PM ET Harry Kettle Arsenal fell to a second defeat in two matches since the Premier League restarted when Neal Maupay‘s late strike handed Brighton & Hove Albion a 2-1 win at the Amex Stadium on Saturday. It was a game overshadowed by a horrific injury to the away side’s goalkeeper, with Bernd Leno
10:51 AM ET NBA Hall of Famer Wayne Embry, who was the first African American to become a general manager in pro sports, believes players should use their voices by continuing to play during the current protests while supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. “I’ve always been a proponent of sports being a model of
Leah Dixon thought her dream of competing with the world’s best would become a reality this year – instead she has come out on top in the new cycling world of virtual reality. The 28-year-old Welsh cyclist, riding for Team Tibco Silicon Valley Bank, won the first ever V-Women’s Tour by nearly 22 seconds on
10:07 PM IST Cricket South Africa has come under severe criticism from the country’s minister of sport, art and culture Nathi Mthethwa who questioned the organisation’s commitment to transformation at a parliamentary briefing on Friday. Despite CSA exceeding their transformation targets on the field for the 2018-19 season, Mtethwa was concerned that several senior positions
3:39 PM ET Like so many high school seniors in 2020, Alison Harbaugh had her final spring sports season taken away by the coronavirus pandemic. Her parents, Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh and his wife, Ingrid, missed out on the milestone moment of watching their only child walk across the stage in a traditional graduation
10:12 PM IST Roston Chase has played as much of a part as any of his team-mates in West Indies’ recent improvements as a Test side. He has scored five hundreds since his debut in 2016, including a six-hour rearguard against India in his second Test, and another in his last encounter with England. Two
11:21 AM ET HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The PGA Tour announced Saturday that 11 people who were in contact with Nick Watney were administered initial COVID-19 tests and all the results came back negative after the golfer on Friday became the first player to test positive for the virus. The PGA Tour did not
12:53 AM ET Connor McDavid just made a retired carpenter from San Diego more than $100,000 richer. McDavid’s 2015-16 Upper Deck “The Cup” rookie patch autograph card sold for a final bid of $135,811.20 in the Lelands Spring Classic Auction on Friday. The sale price includes a 20% buyer’s fee that goes to the auction
Back in 2006, at the beginning of Chris Froome’s career, he came to a fork in the road on the Road World Championships time-trial course, seconds after he rolled off the ramp. Uncertain of which way to go, he hesitated and went straight on, piling into a race delegate. Both ended up in a heap
8:14 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 2004, Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 500th home run. It came on Father’s Day, with his father, Ken
4:02 PM IST Mashrafe Mortaza has tested positive for Covid-19 following tests last week. Mortaza, 36, is currently in the capital Dhaka. Mortaza has been quite active with humanitarian efforts during the pandemic, although it is not known how he contracted the virus. Covid-19 cases have crossed 100,000 in Bangladesh with the government now planning
5:45 PM ET Watford defender Adrian Mariappa has been through a lot in 2020. Remember Watford’s win over Liverpool on Feb. 29? That seems like a lifetime ago. Having tested positive for COVID-19 and seen the pandemic sweep the country, then the death of George Floyd in America and the anger and drive for change