6:34 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 2016, Toronto’s Darwin Barney gave up a game-winning home run in the 19th inning. Barney, of course, is
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3:00 AM ET After guiding Fulham to the Europa League final, Roy Hodgson arrived to take over at Liverpool as Rafael Benitez’s successor on July 1, 2010, but it was a dream job that quickly turned into a nightmare. 2 Related Top of his to-do list was keeping the club’s best players — Steven Gerrard,
6:20 PM IST Imran Khwaja will be the interim chairman of ICC until the elections are held for the post. The decision was taken by the ICC Board on Wednesday after incumbent Shashank Manohar stepped down following two terms in the role. Khwaja, who is a former president of the Singapore Cricket Association, was elected
7:53 AM BST After all that has happened in Australian rugby over the past 18 months, it seems fitting that a new competition will begin with the nation’s oldest rugby rivalry – in a game that promotes the best of its ‘generation next’. Friday night’s Super Rugby AU opener between Queensland Reds and NSW Waratahs
7:51 AM ET There were times during the first half of 2020 when the idea of voting for midyear awards in any sport seemed ill-conceived, and it was no different for the UFC. Would there even be enough events from which to garner candidates for the various categories? The coronavirus pandemic canceled sports around the
7:00 AM ET NBA Insiders It was 10 years ago today that the most anticipated free-agency period in NBA history began, culminating on July 8, 2010, with The Decision and LeBron James announcing that he was taking his talents to South Beach. We asked our NBA insiders to reflect on the show, the fallout and
Follow live radio and text coverage of the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, 3-5 July. This weekend marks the first race since the 2020 season was postponed due to the global coronavirus pandemic. BBC Sport has live coverage of practice, qualifying and the race across the BBC Sport website and BBC
7:30 AM ET Minnesota Wild defenseman Matt Dumba had found some outlets during the NHL’s pause amid the coronavirus pandemic. Dumba, who is half Filipino, found an outlet for his frustration about the sport he loves as one of several minority players who founded the Hockey Diversity Alliance, an organization with the mission to “eradicate
7:00 AM ET David Schoenfield Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer of SweetSpot baseball blog Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995 Jesse Rogers Close ESPN Staff Writer Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. It’s here. Finally. Spring training 2.0. Or make that summer camp.
Formula E driver Daniel Abt has secured a return to racing a month after being sacked for letting another driver impersonate him in an esports event. The German, 27, will drive for the Chinese Nio 333 team in the six season-finale races in Berlin from 5 August. Abt was fired from the Audi Sport Abt
Ireland’s Nicolas Roche has been confirmed as part of Team Sunweb’s line-up for the 2020 Tour de France and Giro d’Italia races. The Tour de France starts on 29 August having been pushed back because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Giro d’Italia, postponed from May, will take place from 3-25 October. The Sunweb team, including
6:20 AM ET This week, I’m going to check in with progress reports for quarterbacks from the 2018 NFL draft. Five quarterbacks were drafted in the first round that year, and I’ll take detailed looks at Lamar Jackson (Tuesday), Josh Allen (Wednesday), Baker Mayfield (Thursday) and Sam Darnold (Friday). Sorry, Josh Rosen; I’ll get to
Throughout July, BBC Scotland’s Sporting Nation series will reflect on some of the greatest feats and personalities from Scottish sporting history. First up is Jim Clark, a two-time Formula 1 world champion and widely considered to be one of the greatest racing drivers of all time. Jim Clark’s towering presence in the pantheon of iconic
1:10 AM ET Steve KimESPN In soundly defeating Sonny Fredrickson over 10 rounds, Alex Saucedo showed that he has made progress under the direction of trainer Pedro Neme, but he’s still a work in progress. Under previous trainer Abel Sanchez, Saucedo had the well-earned reputation of being a fan-friendly, hard-hitting slugger. The problem was that
12:01 AM ET NHL players that are due signing bonuses on July 1 are expected to be paid as scheduled, a source confirmed to ESPN. There is more than $300 million due to be paid to players on Wednesday, with the Toronto Maple Leafs leading the league with roughly $60 million owed. Contracts structured with
5:31 PM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. There are no protocols that can completely eliminate the risk of contracting the coronavirus. Therefore, despite Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association having developed an extensive manual to aid in the task of resuming play in 2020,
11:42 PM ET Steve KimESPN Alex Saucedo scored a hard-earned decision junior welterweight victory over Sonny Fredrickson in the main event of Top Rank’s card Tuesday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Punch Stats Punches Saucedo Fredrickson Total landed 318 172 Total thrown 885 584 Percent 36% 30% Jabs landed 124 39 Jabs
12:24 AM BST England lock Maro Itoje says the singing of ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ by fans at Twickenham makes him uneasy but the Rugby Football Union (RFU) should try to educate supporters on its origins rather than ban the popular anthem altogether. The song, believed to have been written by a slave in the