3:09 PM ET Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas — The Byron Nelson will have a new home when the tournament returns to the PGA Tour schedule next year. TPC Craig Ranch, about 30 minutes north of downtown Dallas, will host the Nelson for at least five years, starting in 2021. The announcement Wednesday from the PGA
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2:43 PM ET Steve KimESPN Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder said he had surgery on his left bicep following his seventh round loss to Tyson Fury on Feb. 22. “Recovery is going well,” the 34-year-old Wilder told the PBC podcast. “I’m in therapy. I ended up injuring it in my last fight, somewhere up
2:35 PM ET For five-time NBA champion Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the parallels between the coronavirus pandemic and the HIV and AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s are apparent. “The same issues we had then, we have now where bad information, myth about ‘it couldn’t happen to us in the black community,’ not being educated enough
Apr 15, 2020 Steve KimESPN The World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight finals between Yuniel Dorticos and Mairis Briedis, which was set for May 16 in Riga, Latvia, has been canceled. The bout had been originally scheduled for March 21, but it was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The organization released this statement: “WBSS is
2:30 PM ET When former LSU quarterback Joe Burrow won the Heisman Trophy last year, a trio of former Ohio State Buckeyes called each other to celebrate. Former quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator Tim Beck was in Texas at the time, driving home from dinner with his wife and daughter, when Cardale Jones called him.
9:06 AM ET There are no live boxing events for the foreseeable future because of the coronavirus pandemic, but boxing fans will have a chance to revisit some of the best fights in history on Saturday, starting at noon ET on ESPN. And when we say the best fights in history, we mean the best
Geraint Thomas would reluctantly accept the 2020 Tour de France taking place with no spectators present if it meant the event going ahead. It is set to be postponed until August because of the coronavirus epidemic. French authorities have said the race may have to take place without fans and 2018 winner Thomas says it
12:01 PM ET Steve Fainaru Close ESPN Senior Writer Winner, 2008 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting Four-time first-place winner in Associated Press Sports Editors competition Co-author of New York Times best-selling book, “League of Denial” Mark Fainaru-Wada Close ESPN Staff Writer Investigative reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit since 2007 Co-author of New York
3:36 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff India have qualified for the 2021 Women’s World Cup following a decision by the ICC’s technical committee to split points for an ICC Women’s Championship series against Pakistan that went unplayed. That series was originally scheduled to take place between July and November 2019, but it did not go ahead,
10:49 AM ET Associated Press Novak Djokovic has been praised by the director general of the local health authority in Bergamo for his donation to help control the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. Peter Assembergs said, “We never expected to see on our bank account a donation from such a prestigious person.” Assembergs added that “reading
10:45 AM ET Associated Press Speedway Motorsports, owner and operator of eight tracks that host NASCAR’s top Cup Series, has laid off 180 employees and furloughed 100 as part of a company restructuring during the sports shutdown. Speedway Motorsports owns the Atlanta, Bristol, Charlotte, Kentucky, Las Vegas, New Hampshire, Sonoma and Texas tracks. The coronavirus
3:09 PM GMT The PCB is planning to team up with the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) to bid for ICC events in the cycle that runs from 2023 to 2031. According to Ehsan Mani, the PCB chairman, the Pakistan board intends to bid for five to six major events, aiming to win at least two
Formula 1 faces a “difficult” decision as to when racing can start later this year, according to McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl. The sport is considering a number of options to start the season after the postponement of the first nine races as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Seidl said: “There is a big
8:20 PM ET In advance of ESPN re-airing the Los Angeles Lakers‘ title-clinching wins in Game 5 of the 2009 NBA Finals against the Orlando Magic and Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals against the Boston Celtics (7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. ET, respectively, on ESPN and the ESPN App), we ranked each of
8:00 AM ET ONE FAN IS all it takes. Last week, a package arrived at my house. It came from retired New Jersey state trooper Mike Dittmar. It had been many years since we last connected, but I will always remember the few words he said to me when we met. I met Mike in
7:30 AM ET Those who have been around the NFL draft the longest — those with the deepest creases around their eyes, the most gray in their hair — will say the draft risers aren’t what they used to be. The extensive time put into finding the best players these days, along with the presence
8:00 AM ET College football coaches know recruiting isn’t complete until the player signs his national letter of intent on the dotted line, and losing out on the star player they covet can come back and haunt them. Whether it was that quarterback who decommitted, the silent commit who never went public or that game-changing
8:50 AM ET Bill Peters has been hired as the new head coach of Yekaterinburg Avtomobilist in Russia’s KHL. Peters, 53, resigned as coach of the Calgary Flames in November, days after a former player, Akim Aliu, came forward and said the coach directed racial epithets toward him while they were in the minors 10