1:44 PM ET UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones hasn’t fought since a razor-thin decision win over Dominick Reyes on Feb. 8, but his current war of words with UFC president Dana White is threatening to overshadow anything taking place in the Octagon. Jones is saying he will relinquish his title and has asked White
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11:51 AM ET The NBA’s Board of Governors has a 12:30 p.m. ET call on Thursday with the intention of approving the league’s plan for a 22-team return in Orlando, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Each of the 22 teams will play eight regular-season games in Orlando for seeding purposes for the playoffs, sources told
1:42 PM ET As college football players across the country slowly start to return to campuses for NCAA-approved voluntary workouts, Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley told reporters on Wednesday he’s “sure the temptation will be high” for some coaches to push the boundaries of what’s allowed. Many spring practices were either cut short or didn’t happen
7:00 AM ET Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is reliving his childhood before he officially joins the real world. The top overall pick in April’s NFL draft is back home in Athens County, Ohio, living with his parents and looking for empty fields so he can throw passes to his friends. The Heisman Trophy he
11:04 PM IST Anil Kumble, the former India captain and chairman of the ICC’s cricket committee, believes cricket should utilise pitches to even up the contest between bat and ball. The legspinner, who is the third-highest wicket-taker in Test cricket, said that it was time for teams to consider playing two spinners even in Australia
10:33 PM IST Saqib Mahmood thinks that reverse-swing will come into play in England’s home Tests this summer, with the ICC’s saliva ban forcing seamers to find alternatives to conventional swing. Mahmood is in line for a Test debut at some stage this summer, with a packed revised schedule likely to force England to rotate
11:07 AM BST New Zealand Rugby is “optimistic” about hosting northern hemisphere teams in an international schedule later in 2020 as the country edges closer to lifting social distancing restrictions. New Zealand will decide on Monday whether it is ready to lower its COVID-19 alert system a notch to level 1, which would end curbs
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has backed Lewis Hamilton for speaking out on racism and diversity following the civil unrest in the USA. Hamilton said on Tuesday that he was “completely overcome with rage” at events following George Floyd’s death. Wolff said: “Lewis is a supporter of minorities. I learned a lot from him.
7:50 AM ET THE ASSIGNMENT WAS simple: Catch up with Andy Ruiz Jr. ahead of the anniversary of his stunning upset over Anthony Joshua last June. Maybe relive that fight, and the spiritless loss to Joshua in the December rematch. Pretty wild year, right? His arrival as the first Mexican-American heavyweight champion and his departure
11:49 AM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour has announced a deal with Sanford Health to conduct coronavirus testing of players, caddies and essential personnel five days before the season resumes. That applies to every stop on the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions and the developmental Korn Ferry Tour. Sanford Health is based in South
8:25 AM ET Exactly a year ago, the Washington Nationals started the day seven games under .500, seven games out of first place, with a disastrous bullpen. But some key players came back from injury, and general manager Mike Rizzo made some pivotal deals for bullpen help, adding, among others, Daniel Hudson, who would go
9:21 AM ET The Official World Golf Ranking will resume next week as the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tours restart their schedules in the United States. The OWGR was frozen in March following week 11 of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and its shutdown of all of the major golf tournaments. The rankings
8:45 AM ET When NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced the “return to play” postseason tournament format, he announced that the regular season was considered completed as of March 11, the day before the league shut down for the coronavirus pandemic. While there was some brief confusion about where statistics from the qualification round would end
7:00 AM ET In this most abnormal of springs, the Detroit Tigers may make an abnormal pick with the first selection in the 2020 MLB draft: a first baseman. Arizona State slugger Spencer Torkelson is regarded not just as the top talent in the draft, but as the safest pick in a draft with an
8:16 AM ET Associated Press The chief executive of the European Tour says the fate of this year’s Ryder Cup will be decided by the end of the month. Keith Pelley says in an extensive interview with the McKellar Journal podcast that the European Tour and the PGA will have “conversations” about the Ryder Cup
7:30 AM ET Today’s NHL is loaded with skill and talent up and down the ice. But what would the perfect player look like? Using the attributes of current NHL stars, we set out to create the perfect forward, defenseman and goaltender. We continue the series here by building the ultimate defenseman from 16 different
4:54 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmyer and Keemo Paul have declined an invitation to be part of West Indies’ squad to tour England in July, with Nkrumah Bonner and Chemar Holder winning their first Test call-ups. Jermaine Blackwood, the middle-order batsman who made his maiden Test hundred against England in 2015, and
9:52 PM ET Clemson assistant coach Danny Pearman apologized Tuesday after word spread on social media of an incident in which he used a racial slur during a practice in 2017. After several former Clemson players noted the incident Tuesday on Twitter, former tight end D.J. Greenlee confirmed an account to The State newspaper in