5:08 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff New Zealand seamer Matt Henry has become the latest player to have his county contract cancelled on account of the coronavirus pandemic. Henry was due to join Kent – for whom he starred in 2018 – for seven County Championship games at the start of the season, but with all
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12:06 PM ET The Chinese Basketball Association is facing another setback in its efforts to resume play in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Sources told ESPN that league officials met overnight to discuss the fate of its season, which has been on hold since Jan. 24, and elected to postpone its schedule again, this
11:08 AM ET ESPN News Services CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Chip Ganassi Racing has fired NASCAR driver Kyle Larson after he used the N-word during a virtual race, it was announced Tuesday. Larson was competing in an iRacing event Sunday night when he appeared to lose communication with his spotter on his headset. During a check
8:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN As boxers worldwide are sidelined while the sports world (and almost everything else) is shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, promotional companies are doing their best to keep fighters in front of the public eye. Eddie Hearn, the head of Matchroom Sports, has been conducting a regular series of
Apr 14, 2020 The Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) said it would discuss a salary reduction programme for higher earning players and staff with the governing body’s finances badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend and the SRU board have taken a 25% wage deferral until Sept. 1 to help ease the
8:16 AM ET Who is Michael Jordan‘s real competition for the greatest NBA player of all time? MJ’s last championship run with the Chicago Bulls is captured in “The Last Dance,” a 10-part documentary series debuting on ESPN on Sunday (9 p.m. ET). That sixth and final title helped Jordan earn a strong claim for
8:00 AM ET CLAYTON KERSHAW PICKED me up at my hotel at 6:30 a.m., exactly on time, which is less about making a good impression and more about the rigor with which he orders his life. He’s never late. A few minutes ago, he’d slipped out of a quiet house, leaving behind his wife, Ellen,
11:22 AM ET Major League Baseball is shut down right now, as are virtually all sports, because of the coronavirus pandemic. We might see baseball again as early as May, but that could be with all 30 teams in Arizona, and no fans in the stands. In the meantime, why are the parking lots at
8:54 AM ET Terence Crawford unleashes a smile as he hears another one of Errol Spence Jr.’s recent proclamations to “wash” him if the two best welterweights in the world finally face off in the ring. Crawford (36-0, 27 KOs), the WBO world titleholder, isn’t much of a talker. In a boxing world of brash
7:50 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1968, Nolan Ryan won his first major league game. Nolan Ryan is not the greatest pitcher of all
7:47 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer The night after she won an Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Games in Rio, Monica Puig found herself waking up every 30 or so minutes to make sure it wasn’t all a dream. She had wanted to stand atop the podium for as long as she could remember,
7:43 AM ET Former Lions defensive tackle Damon “Snacks” Harrison says he didn’t want to play in Detroit and was “hell-bent on getting out” of the Motor City. The Lions traded for Harrison on Oct. 25, 2018, sending a fifth-round pick to the New York Giants. “I was a bit angry,” Harrison said of the
7:56 AM ET Kelly CohenESPN Wearing a face mask to the ballpark to watch your baseball team? What about hand sanitizer at every aisle that you have to use before going to your seat at an NBA game? Should there be temperature checks when entering the arena? And can fans say goodbye to high-fives, hugging
11:35 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Michael Hussey thinks MS Dhoni is the greatest finisher of all time. Having shared a dressing room with the former India captain for seven years across two IPL stints, Hussey also believed Dhoni’s instincts and mental toughness at his peak made opposition captains blink first under pressure. “In my mind,
7:00 AM ET The first women’s professional golf event to be staged in Saudi Arabia has been rescheduled for Oct. 8-11 after it was postponed last month due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers have confirmed on Tuesday. The Saudi Ladies International, which is part of the Ladies European Tour (LET), will be hosted at the
The Tour de France looks set to be postponed following the French government’s extension of a ban on mass gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic. President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that restrictions on public events would continue until mid-July. Cycling’s biggest race, won by Team Ineos’ Egan Bernal last year, is due to run
Apr 14, 2020 New Zealand Rugby says the concept of Australia staging every match in a rapid-fire Rugby Championship this year is a long way from becoming a reality. NZ Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson said a host of options are being considered around what form domestic and international rugby in the southern hemisphere could
Apr 14, 2020 An anticipated Easter resolution to the pay talks between Rugby Australia and the players’ union hasn’t eventuated by early Monday evening, with the clock now ticking especially loud for the NSW Waratahs. Going into Easter RA had been optimistic of getting a deal on salary cuts done with the Rugby Union Players’