10:33 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Kansas City, Kansas, on Thursday for the Super Start Batteries 400 Presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts. Austin Dillon held on for his first Cup series victory of the season on Sunday in Fort Worth, Texas. Who will take the checkered flag under the
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7:00 AM ET Opening Day of the 2020 MLB season is just days away with baseball adapting a 60-game schedule as the sport tries to return amid the coronavirus pandemic. With specific adjustments to make play possible this year and some rule changes that were already in the works for this season, the sport figures
7:48 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders PGA Tour golf is back in full swing, albeit without the crowds we’re accustomed to. Jon Rahm took home the title at the Memorial Tournament and claimed the world No. 1 ranking in the process. The tour now heads to Minnesota for the 3M Open. Which players are good
2:56 PM ET The world’s two most expensive goalkeepers meet at Anfield on Wednesday night, but while one is a newly crowned Premier League champion, the other is under mounting pressure to prove he is worth the fuss. There were 20 days separating Alisson’s arrival at Liverpool and Kepa Arrizabalaga joining Chelsea, the baton and
Team Ineos are set to be renamed before this year’s Tour de France. Cycling’s biggest team will become the Ineos Grenadiers, named after a new model of car being released by billionaire Ineos owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe in 2021. Ineos recently announced they would not renew the contract of four-time Tour champion Chris Froome beyond
4:47 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Sripali Weerakkody, the 34-year-old Sri Lankan bowling allrounder, has announced her retirement from international cricket with immediate effect, hanging up her boots after playing 89 ODIs and 58 T20Is since making her debut in 2006. “I have decided to call it a day. So I feel this is the right
7:00 AM ET The 2019-20 NHL season will be remembered for quite some time, thanks to a pause because of the coronavirus pandemic that kept players off the ice for months and ended seven teams’ seasons. As we bear witness to the first 24-team postseason tournament, we continue to look ahead to what’s next. As
3:30 AM BST ESPN staff South African rugby will not be left without high-level provincial and international competition because of coronavirus-related concerns, national union chief executive Jurie Roux says. Roux was asked on a media call if New Zealand Rugby’s plans for an eight- or 10-team Super Rugby 2021 competition without Argentina’s Jaguares and the
12:30 AM ET NBA Insiders Glen Taylor bought the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1994, saving the team from a potential move to New Orleans. He announced Tuesday that he is looking into a potential sale of the franchise, which has made just one playoff appearance since 2004, and has hired bankers to help identify bidders. ESPN’s
5:51 PM ET Steve KimESPN Former WBO featherweight world titleholder Oscar Valdez defeated Jayson Velez by 10th-round TKO in the main event of a Top Rank card Tuesday at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. It was Valdez’s first time in the ring since November, when he defeated late replacement opponent Adam Lopez
10:09 PM ET Steve KimESPN As the first set of fight cards concluded Tuesday night inside the bubble at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the next round of Top Rank bouts inside that venue were announced for late August. On Aug. 22, there will be a WBO light heavyweight title eliminator bout between Joe
4:23 PM ET Austin LindbergESPN FC There are 1,200 players and staff at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin hotel for the MLS is Back Tournament, and the hotel is cooking for all of them. Between 4,000-4,800 meals are being prepared every day, and that level of output will continue until the eight eliminated
9:34 PM ET Miami got a big recruiting win Tuesday when ESPN 300 athlete James Williams announced his commitment to the Hurricanes. I know my momma prond of what her son becoming 💯 #Blessed pic.twitter.com/Iqye4iTPou — James Williams (@Begreat_20) July 22, 2020 Williams is the No. 33-ranked prospect overall out of American Heritage High School
10:04 PM ET The Wilf family that owns the Minnesota Vikings has emerged as a serious candidate to buy the Minnesota Timberwolves, league sources told ESPN. Only recently did the Wilfs emerge as one of the groups bidding to buy the NBA team in their city from billionaire Glen Taylor, sources said. There are several
5:39 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Australia women’s captain Meg Lanning will return to the Melbourne Stars for the next WBBL season following three years with the Perth Scorchers. The move had been expected for some time but the contracting embargo for the tournament was only lifted last Friday due the disrupted off-season with Covid-19. Lanning
6:52 AM ET NBA Insiders In his 17th season, LeBron James faces a major new challenge along with his Los Angeles Lakers teammates: heading into the Orlando bubble for the NBA restart after a hiatus of almost five months and taking the legendary franchise to its 17th championship. How will James look in Florida? Can
6:45 AM ET Picking an MVP in advance of a typical season is difficult. Remember last year? The trendiest candidates heading into the regular season were Carson Wentz, Baker Mayfield and Mitchell Trubisky. Not ideal. Wentz had a good season without ever seriously getting in the MVP hunt, and Mayfield and Trubisky collapsed. Nobody was
7:15 AM ET In the shortened Major League Baseball season that’s on tap for 2020, which players’ top-tier performances will define the year for baseball? We asked a panel of 32 experts from ESPN’s MLB coverage team to name the star players they think will deliver seasons that merit recognition as baseball’s MVPs, Cy Young