6:38 PM ET Associated Press LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech is adding Alabama graduate transfer Chadarius Townsend, who was used sparingly at running back by the Crimson Tide and has two years of eligibility remaining. Townsend was a standout high school quarterback in Alabama before joining the Crimson Tide in 2017. After a redshirt season,
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5:30 PM ET Former Florida State linebacker Kendrick Scott has started a petition to rename Doak Campbell Stadium over Campbell’s pro-segregation views while serving as university president. Campbell transitioned the school from Florida State College for Women to Florida State, serving as president from 1941-57. He also spearheaded the construction and completion of the football
1:28 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Canada has approved a National Hockey League plan to play in Canada during the coronavirus pandemic, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday. The plan required an exemption as the U.S.-Canada border is currently closed to all non-essential travel until at least July 21 and those who enter
10:19 AM ET Projected top-five NBA draft pick Deni Avdija will resume his season with Maccabi Tel Aviv when the Israeli basketball league returns Sunday, he told ESPN. “Before I go to the U.S., I have a job to finish here in Israel,” Avdija wrote in an email. “As a competitor I am committed to
3:49 PM ET HILTON HEAD, S.C. — In addition to all of the physical benefits that Bryson DeChambeau is enjoying after a months-long process that has seen him add 40 pounds, perhaps the best one has nothing to do with golf. It’s his diet. Specifically, the ability to eat, well, as much as possible. “I
3:31 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Under normal circumstances, in Manchester United‘s post-Sir Alex Ferguson era, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would be in trouble. Nine games to go, fifth in the table and three points adrift of the top four would normally have the Glazers’ trigger finger twitching. Every manager employed since Ferguson retired in 2013 has
2:22 PM ET Associated Press The European Tour won’t have a senior circuit this year. The Staysure Tour for players 50 and older announced Friday it has canceled the season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was supposed to start May 14-16 in Austria. Three senior majors on its schedule — the Senior PGA, the
1:43 PM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning have temporarily shut down their training facility after several players and staffers have tested positive for coronavirus, a source confirmed to ESPN. Other players and staffers who have been at the facility are being tested. The Lightning and NHL will figure out how to proceed based off of
12:28 AM IST The IPL has convened a meeting of its Governing Council next week to “review various sponsorship deals” for the tournament following tensions this week on the India-China border. The move reflects the fact that the IPL’s main sponsors, including title sponsor Vivo, have Chinese ownership or links. While there has been tension
2:10 PM ET Steve KimESPN Thompson Boxing announced Friday that it will stage a pay-per-view card July 26 featuring lightweight hopeful Michael Dutchover facing Jorge Marron Jr. in an eight-round bout. Under the new California State Athletic Commission guidelines, the show at the Omega Products Event Center in Corona, California, will take place without a
11:22 PM ET Steve KimESPN Blue-chip lightweight prospect Gabriel Flores Jr. continued his development with a one-sided unanimous decision victory over Josec Ruiz on Thursday at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. Flores (18-0, 6 KOs) started quickly, scoring a second-round knockdown of Ruiz (21-3-3, 14 KOs), and then outboxed Ruiz the rest
6:59 AM ET NFL NationESPN The start of a new decade is upon us with the 2020 NFL season. But before we get rolling with the ’20s, ESPN is taking a look back at the best — and worst — of the 2010s and naming the top players of the decade for all 32 teams.
7:06 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 1996, Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith announced his retirement, effective at the end of that season. He retired as
10:45 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Irfan Pathan burst onto the international scene as a teenager full of promise, swing and runs, but played his last international match just before turning 28, in October 2012. Pathan, who retired from the game only in January this year, finished with 29 Tests, 120 ODIs and 24 T20Is. He
Former Formula 1 driver Alex Zanardi has been taken to hospital after an accident during a handbike relay in his native Italy. The 53-year-old was involved in a crash with a lorry in Pienza in Tuscany on Friday. He was taken by helicopter to Siena’s Le Scotte, where he is in a serious condition. Zanardi
8:00 AM ET A big celebration didn’t await Emanuel Navarrete when his life changed forever. The day after Navarrete won the WBO 122-pound title in an upset victory over Isaac Dogboe in December 2018, he got on a plane and went back to San Juan Zitlaltepec — Navarrete’s hometown, located roughly 50 miles north of
7:41 AM ET Officially, the UFC has five title fights on its upcoming schedule — four of them featuring a fighter coming off a loss in his most recent fight. Now, the four matchups are easy to explain. Heavyweight Daniel Cormier lost to Stipe Miocic last year, and the two need to finish their rivalry.
11:32 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Tennis authorities suspended Venezuelan referee Armando Belardi for two years and six months on Friday for not reporting approaches to him to alter match scores. Belardi was approached twice in 2018 by unidentified parties, the Tennis Integrity Unit said. The investigation found that Belardi did not alter the