4:14 AM ET Are you ready for a football marathon of unprecedented length and difficulty? The next year promises a run of fixtures and the longest period of competitive action that the game has ever seen after the Premier League returns from its coronavirus shutdown on Wednesday. It also promises to challenge elite players, both
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3:51 AM ET Australian Nick Kyrgios has said the United States Tennis Association (UTSA) is being “selfish” by pressing ahead with the US Open on its original dates from Aug. 31 to Sept. 13. USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier confirmed on Monday that the tournament was ready to move forward “as long as we get the
1:10 PM IST If the list of key figures in Australian cricket who couldn’t deal with Kevin Roberts had grown so long as to make his position as Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive untenable, it’s unlikely that their discontent will be sated purely by his exit. After Roberts departed on Tuesday, leaving behind many fractured
12:33 AM BST Former Prime Minister John Howard, Wallabies great John Eales and leading Australian businessman Sir Rod Eddington are all part of an Advisory Board set up to oversee Rugby Australia’s 2027 Rugby World Cup bid. New Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan unveiled the Board on Tuesday morning, McLennan wasting little time in attempting
12:32 AM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — The Vegas Golden Knights signed tough guy Ryan Reaves on Monday to a two-year contract extension worth $3.5 million. He’ll count $1.75 million against the salary cap in each of the next two seasons. Reaves announced the new deal in a video on the Golden Knights’ Twitter
Jamie Chadwick says she hopes the “stars will align” after a securing substantial backing to reach Formula 1. Chadwick signed for the Italian Prema team following support from Rodin Cars’ multi-millionaire boss David Dicker. The 22-year-old will compete in regional Formula 3 from this August, with the aim of rising up to International F3 and
11:51 PM ET A highly ranked featherweight bout between Calvin Kattar and Dan Ige will headline UFC Fight Night on July 15 at Fight Island, multiple sources told ESPN. Both sides have agreed to the 145-pound main event, per sources. The UFC Fight Night event will take place at the UFC’s Fight Island, at Yas
10:40 PM ET With a group of players concerned about the NBA restarting its season amid a pandemic and social unrest around the country, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he is listening and his sense is that the league and its players will be able to “work through most those issues over the next few
4:44 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told ESPN on Monday he’s “not confident” there will be a 2020 baseball season and that “as long as there’s no dialogue” with the MLB Players
7:01 PM ET NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said he supports and encourages teams to sign quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick, 32, has not played since the 2016 season, when as a member of the San Francisco 49ers he kneeled during the national anthem to protest racial inequality. In a conversation with Mike Greenberg for ESPN’s “The
1:16 PM ET Another week has come and gone, with one high-profile transfer nearing its conclusion, the Bundesliga title fight looking all but over, the Black Lives Matter movement receiving more support and much more. It’s Monday, and Gab Marcotti reacts to the biggest moments in the sport of football from the past week. Jump
6:53 AM IST Kevin Roberts‘ ignominious exit from Cricket Australia will see the T20 World Cup local organising chief, Nick Hockley, installed as acting chief executive while the governing body conducts a global search for the next long-term leader. Hockley, who has impressed many with his handling of the women’s event capped by a crowd
8:18 PM ET Steve KimESPN Undefeated welterweight Vergil Ortiz will be the headliner when Golden Boy Promotions returns to boxing in July. The original plan for Golden Boy was for the highly marketable and telegenic Ryan Garcia to take part in the main event on the Fouth of July. But the two sides were not
7:37 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — The silence that greeted the return of the PGA Tour at Colonial will be a familiar sound for the first major of the year. The PGA of America has submitted plans to hold the PGA Championship at Harding Park without spectators, and the San Francisco Chronicle
7:00 AM ET 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. From the
3:43 PM ET Oklahoma State’s Chuba Hubbard, the nation’s leading rusher last season, tweeted Monday that he “won’t be doing anything for Oklahoma State until things CHANGE” in response to a photo of coach Mike Gundy wearing an OAN T-shirt. “I will not stand for this,” Hubbard posted. “This is completely insensitive to everything going
5:22 PM ET Steve KimESPN Top Rank’s Bob Arum says he expects WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford to return in the fall when he hopes spectators will be allowed back into fights. Currently, Top Rank’s events are being held in a crowdless venue at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. “We’re going to have Terence
6:33 PM ET Associated Press WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Morgan Burke, the longest serving athletic director in Purdue history, died at his home Monday after battling a rare disease for the past year. He was 68. University officials said in a statement Burke had been diagnosed with amyloidosis, an ailment caused by the buildup of