6:16 PM ET As the NBA firms up its 22-team Orlando restart schedule, 14 of the teams will be eliminated within 53 days of arriving — and only four teams will remain after 67 days, sources said. The NBA has been working to make clear to players that the actual commitment of time for most
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9:02 PM ET ESPN News Services Although eerily quiet at times because of the absence of fans, golf was back to business at the Charles Schwab Challenge on Thursday as Justin Rose and Harold Varner III shared the lead at 7-under 63 at Colonial. Justin Thomas was among those a stroke back and Tom Lehman,
6:50 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — Eleven people gathered behind the second hole at Colonial Country Club on Thursday for the first round of the Charles Schwab Challenge. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, fans were not allowed, but this group did not want to take no for an answer, especially as the top three
6:38 PM ET Associated Press GRAHAM, N.C. — A North Carolina judge on Thursday ordered a small stock-car track to halt racing after state health officials declared large weekend crowds at recent races violated an executive order by Gov. Roy Cooper designed to halt the spread of COVID-19. Superior Court Judge Tom Lambeth said he
5:56 PM ET Ray Borg has withdrawn from Saturday’s UFC Fight Night bantamweight bout against Merab Dvalishvili because of personal reasons, the UFC said Thursday. Borg’s manager, Ali Abdelaziz, told ESPN that Borg had a “family emergency.” Borg was absent from the card’s virtual media day Thursday and his withdrawal was announced after it. New
Jun 8, 2020 Former bantamweight champion Holly Holm will make her return to the Octagon against Mexican contender Irene Aldana on Aug. 1, sources said. The UFC originally planned to promote a pay-per-view event on Aug. 1, but that particular date has since been changed to a UFC Fight Night. It is expected to take
5:10 PM ET Major League Soccer’s plan for getting back on the field is now official, almost three months after the 2020 season shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The return will come in the form of a World-Cup style competition to be held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at Walt
5:01 PM ET WBO president Francisco Valcarcel has stepped ahead of the curve regarding the announcement of a two-fight deal between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury, insisting Thursday that the winner of the series take on Ukranian boxer Oleksandr Usyk. “I would love to see WBO champion Anthony Joshua unify titles with former WBO champion
5:20 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Jockey Jose Ortiz notched his 2,000th career victory on Thursday, riding Creed to a win in the fourth race at Belmont. The 26-year-old rider’s win total includes 17 from his native Puerto Rico. Creed won by 7 3/4 lengths and paid $7.60 to win for Hall of
2:26 PM ET Dominic Thiem, a three-time Grand Slam finalist and the No. 3-ranked player in the ATP, has stepped in to headline the Ultimate Tennis Showdown, a 10-man round-robin-style tournament beginning on Saturday in the south of France at the Mouratoglou Academy. ‘With Dominic now, we have four of the top 10 ATP players
1:45 PM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour Champions Boeing Classic scheduled to be held in August outside of Seattle has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tournament director Brian Flajole said Thursday that uncertainty about the ability to hold large public gatherings in Washington state led to the decision to not hold the
6:59 AM ET Bobby Marks Who are the upcoming NBA free agents to watch? Nearly half the league hit free agency in 2019. Plenty of stars changed teams, including Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Kawhi Leonard, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker. The 2020 class won’t have the same star power or the same amount of cap
2:46 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Tigers will host Mississippi State in 2028 and visit the Bulldogs in 2029 in a new home-and-home series. The Tigers announced the games Thursday. Memphis already was scheduled to host Mississippi State in 2021 and visit the Bulldogs in Starkville in 2022. Memphis and Mississippi
7:00 AM ET The first night of the 2020 MLB draft is in the books, but there are still several big names left on draft boards whom some expected to be long gone by Day 2. Among them are prep stars expecting bigger money to lure them away from their college commitments and college players
6:55 AM ET NFL NationESPN No matter the format or circumstance, NFL expansion is a losing proposition in the short term. There is no practical way to build an immediate winner out of remnants of other NFL teams. The four franchises to most recently enter the NFL as expansion teams — the Carolina Panthers (1995),
11:52 AM ET The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association have announced that formal training camps for the 24 teams resuming play will begin on Friday, July 10, if conditions related to the coronavirus pandemic allow it. The league and its players are currently in Phase 2 of their “return to play” protocol, as NHL
11:03 PM IST The prospect of a domestic first-class competition in 2020 would appear to have diminished due to logistical concerns over hotels, as well as doubts among some clubs over the financial viability of a restart. While a regionally split first-class competition remains the favoured option of the Professional Game Group (PGG), an on-line
8:44 AM BST Players are heading toward a “legal dispute” with the Premiership Rugby to stop the league from imposing permanent salary cuts following a salary cap reduction, the Rugby Players Association (RPA) said on Wednesday. Premiership clubs voted unanimously on Monday to cut the salary cap by £1.4 million from the 2021-22 season. In