11:17 PM ET Tennis Australia have offered their support to Dylan Alcott over his disappointment at the wheelchair events being cut from the U.S. Open and said they were optimistic of running a full programme at January’s Australian Open. Australian Alcott, who has won 10 Grand Slam wheelchair singles titles including two at Flushing Meadows,
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8:25 PM ET SEC commissioner Greg Sankey threatened not to host any future conference championship events in Mississippi until the state changes its flag. Mississippi is the only state that has the Confederate symbol — a blue cross with the 13 stars — still on its flag. “It is past time for change to be
9:17 PM ET Albert Pujols is giving back to his team and his native Dominican Republic. According to the Los Angeles Times, the veteran Angels slugger is covering $180,000 in salary lost by staff members of the team in the Dominican who were furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The gesture will cover about five
9:44 AM ET Steve KimESPN Clay Collard handed David Kaminsky his first professional loss with a split decision by the scores of 58-56, 56-58 and 58-56, in a fast-paced super middleweight contest on the Gabriel Flores Jr.- Josec Ruiz undercard at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. But while it looked close on
9:59 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Editor’s note: Tor-Kristian Karlsen is a Norwegian football scout and executive and is the former chief executive and sporting director at AS Monaco. He will write regularly for ESPN on the business of soccer and the process of scouting. In his latest column, he looks at Chelsea‘s new €53 million
2:16 PM ET UFC’s dance card for its four events on Fight Island next month is just about full. UFC president Dana White officially revealed the company’s main card lineups, as well as the majority of prelims, for events scheduled on July 11, July 15, July 18 and July 25. The events will be held
5:43 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Bucks guard Sterling Brown, who was tased by Milwaukee police in 2018 after being cited for a parking violation, sees the NBA’s restart in Orlando as an opportunity to campaign for issues of social justice and racial equality. “A lot of eyes will be on us while we’re in Orlando,”
12:00 PM ET A UFC fighter is out of this weekend’s event in Las Vegas after one of his cornermen tested positive for the coronavirus. Matt Frevola, who was scheduled to fight Frank Camacho on the card, was removed from the event after it was revealed that his cornerman Billy Quarantillo, who is also a
4:30 PM ET HILTON HEAD, S.C. — The ball sailed toward the trees, and as bad tee shots go, this was not one of Jordan Spieth‘s worst. He’s hit enough of them in recent times to know. This one clanked off a tree, however — and kicked out of bounds. Spieth is also familiar with
6:27 PM ET Former NHL player Daniel Carcillo is a lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian Hockey league, alleging he and other teenage players were “routinely victims to hazing, bullying, physical and verbal harassment, physical assault, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.” The lawsuit was filed Thursday with the Ontario Superior Court of
3:45 PM ET Novak Djokovic, the No. 1-ranked player in tennis and president of the ATP Player Council, is less reluctant to play the US Open now that USTA officials have provided a clearer look at the safety precautions designed to lower the risk of players and others contracting the coronavirus. The USTA on Wednesday
3:28 PM ET The NHL has assured its coaches that when hockey returns this summer, there will be no restrictions prohibiting them from doing their jobs, nor will any coaches of a certain age or another at-risk demographic be prevented from being behind the bench, deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN on Thursday. The league
2:02 PM ET “This is crazy. I’m excited.” w That was the expression from Serena Williams, the most accomplished women’s player of the Open era, as the USTA revealed its plans to hold the Western & Southern Open and the US Open in conjunction over a 24-day “bubble” period beginning Aug. 19. The plan has
2:11 PM ET Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban says if his players take a knee during the national anthem, he hopes to join them. In an interview with ESPN’s Outside the Lines on Thursday, Cuban was asked how he would react if he saw his players not standing for the anthem. “If they were taking
12:53 PM ET Texas says that 13 football players have confirmed positive coronavirus test results or are presumed positive, according to Allen Hardin, the school’s senior associate athletics director for sports medicine and performance. Texas says all 13 players are now self-isolating and 10 more identified through contact tracing are in self-quarantine but asymptomatic at
7:00 AM ET Who are the Buffalo Sabres? This isn’t meant to be a “Jeopardy!” answer to “This National Hockey League team has had six head coaches, four general managers and zero playoff appearances since 2011,” although that would be applicable. This is a legitimate question: Who are they? What style do they play? Is
2:02 PM ET The Major League Baseball Players Association has finalized a proposal to MLB for a season in the neighborhood of 70 games, sources tell ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Jesse Rogers. Following a four-hour negotiation in Phoenix between the leaders Tuesday, MLB emerged believing the framework of a deal had been agreed upon, sources
7:30 AM ET Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Dec. 27, 2019 and has been updated. Pro football began and ended the 2010-19 decade as the country’s most popular sport. A few things happened in between, of course, and what follows is our attempt to pick out the most significant ways pro football