6:06 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Malika Andrews Close ESPN Staff Writer Staff Writer Joined ESPN in 2018 Appears regularly on ESPN Chicago 1000 As a growing faction of NBA players remains uncertain about committing to the league’s plan for restarting the season
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5:38 PM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour will keep the 3M Open in Minnesota on schedule, but the second-year event will be played without spectators on site. Tournament officials announced Monday that the state’s health guidelines currently in place for public gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic will keep the galleries empty throughout the weekend
2:10 PM ET Dallas Stars defenseman Roman Polak told a Czech website that he will do everything he can to avoid returning to the NHL this summer to complete a restarted season, while announcing he had agreed to join a Czech league team for the 2020-21 season. “I am determined to stay at home. If
11:00 AM ET There was a moment in December when Jay Sugarman became convinced that Kevin Durant was precisely the man he wanted to join the Philadelphia Union’s ownership group. Durant was paying a visit to the Union’s campus in Chester, Pennsylvania, and naturally, the NBA superstar’s presence created a stir in the team’s offices.
8:20 AM ET Mack Brown knew it was time to step away. When he was head coach at Texas, the Longhorns went 13-1 in 2009, losing only to Alabama in the national championship game. That loss devastated him, and he dwelled on it endlessly. Rather than focusing on the 13 wins and celebrating his players
10:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Here are some truths about Major League Baseball right now. The league and players have spent the past two months bickering, not listening to one another and prioritizing self over sport. Their
10:42 AM ET Major League Baseball informed clubs on Monday that they can resume scouting activities, ending the ban that was instituted on March 19 due to the coronavirus pandemic, a source told ESPN. There is a limit of three scouts per MLB club for each event, as a way for clubs to ramp up
10:50 PM IST Danyal Rasool Mohammad Hafeez, the second-longest serving Pakistan cricketer in the current setup, could yet extend his 17-year career. Hafeez’s original plan was to retire in November this year, after the T20 World Cup in Australia but he said – in a video conference – that he would continue to make himself
6:00 AM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw, there wasn’t anything particularly memorable about South Carolina defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw back in October 2017. Kinlaw’s Gamecocks had just pummeled Greenlaw’s Arkansas Razorbacks 48-22, with a sophomore Kinlaw posting three tackles, including one for a loss. But a couple of
Mercedes Formula 1 engine boss Andy Cowell is to leave the company. Cowell led Mercedes High Performance Powertrains through the development of the turbo hybrid engine with which the team have dominated F1 for seven years. The 51-year-old is leaving Mercedes to “seek a new engineering challenge”. Cowell will leave his role at the end
9:14 AM ET It has been 95 days since the NHL hit the pause button on the 2019-20 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. As the cancellations and postponements around the world of sports continue, there also have been continuous nuggets of new information regarding the potential resumption of the season, the draft, the playoffs
10:46 AM ET Phil Mickelson’s company, Mickelson Inc., has applied for a trademark through the United States Patent and Trademark office for the use of “Coffee For Wellness.” The company filed the application on June 9 for the trademark on coffee, coffee beans, coffee pods and a few other applications of coffee. It is accompanied
7:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN Next month, the NBA is set to descend upon Walt Disney World to attempt to finish out the 2019-20 season. And while winning a championship will be the goal for all 22 teams, plenty of what transpires could have enormous implications and reshape the league. Because of the unusual circumstances
7:54 AM ET UFC president Dana White began touting a welterweight title bout between champion Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal as far back as January, when a heated exchange between the fighters during Super Bowl week lit a marketing fuse that was expected to detonate a blockbuster main event on July 11. But a lot
9:29 AM ET As main-eventer Jessie Magdaleno started his walk late Thursday night, he turned a corner and saw the ring. This is usually the moment when he hears the crowd, when the energy pumps through his body. Instead, he heard nothing. He saw the giant LED screens created by Top Rank Boxing to make
8:55 AM ET The United States Tennis Association is moving ahead with its plans to play the US Open in its projected time frame, starting on Aug. 31. The ATP and WTA have embraced the plan, along with a reshuffling of the August calendar, a source familiar with the plans has confirmed to ESPN. Forbes
12:37 AM ET New Zealand’s Dan Hooker says the camp for his fight with Dustin Poirier has tested him like no other, but that he will head into their lightweight showdown full of confidence and ready to emerge from another five-round slugfest if necessary. Hooker (20-8) will face the American at UFC Fight Night Las
7:06 AM ET Golf made its return this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Was it different? Yes. There were no fans, and social distancing measures were in place following a 91-day layoff because of the coronavirus pandemic. Was it the same? Well … yes. The best players in the world still played like the