8:14 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 2004, Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 500th home run. It came on Father’s Day, with his father, Ken
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4:02 PM IST Mashrafe Mortaza has tested positive for Covid-19 following tests last week. Mortaza, 36, is currently in the capital Dhaka. Mortaza has been quite active with humanitarian efforts during the pandemic, although it is not known how he contracted the virus. Covid-19 cases have crossed 100,000 in Bangladesh with the government now planning
5:45 PM ET Watford defender Adrian Mariappa has been through a lot in 2020. Remember Watford’s win over Liverpool on Feb. 29? That seems like a lifetime ago. Having tested positive for COVID-19 and seen the pandemic sweep the country, then the death of George Floyd in America and the anger and drive for change
11:02 PM ET ESPN News Services The NHL announced late Friday that 11 of the 200 players tested since training facilities were allowed to open on June 8 have tested positive for COVID-19. The league said the players, who weren’t named, are self-isolating. The Tampa Bay Lightning said Friday that three players and additional staffers
12:53 AM ET Connor McDavid just made a retired carpenter from San Diego over $100,000 richer. McDavid’s 2015-16 Upper Deck “The Cup” rookie patch autograph card sold for a final bid of $113,176 in the Lelands Spring Classic Auction on Friday. (The purchaser will pay a total of $135,811 due to a 20% buyer’s premium
1:42 AM ET Former Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell is finalizing a one-year contract with the Kiwoom Heroes of the KBO, a source familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Russell should soon be in South Korea. Russell, 26, became a free agent when the Cubs non-tendered him in December. He was suspended for
7:50 PM ET ESPN News Services HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Webb Simpson and Bryson DeChambeau were trading birdies with vastly different games, and Rory McIlroy ran off enough birdies to make the cut Friday at the RBC Heritage. Simpson got the last word, with a 6-foot birdie on his final hole at No. 9
3:47 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers chief executive officer and governor Jeanie Buss shared a photograph of a letter on her Instagram account Friday containing racial and misogynistic epithets “so that everyone can see the hate is real and living out there,” she wrote. The two-sentence letter, composed on a type writer, begins with “Dear
9:38 PM ET Next weekend’s UFC event has suffered a blow. Aspen Ladd, who was scheduled to fight Sara McMann on the June 27 card, has been forced to withdraw after suffering a torn ACL and MCL in training, her manager, Dave Hirschbein, said Friday. According to Hirschbein, Ladd will find out Tuesday whether she’ll
7:02 PM ET Clemson‘s football team now has 23 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since its return to campus two weeks ago, according to a source, after the school announced 28 new positive tests among student-athletes and staff on Friday. The school performed a total of 315 tests in the past week with 28 people testing
10:03 PM ET Former UFC title contender Anthony Smith will look to get back on track in August. Smith is slated to meet Aleksandar Rakic on Aug. 29, sources confirmed to ESPN following a report by MMAPlay365. The event, which has yet to be officially announced by the promotion, doesn’t have a finalized location. Smith
1:55 PM ET UFC heavyweight contenders Curtis Blaydes and Alexander Volkov each made weight on Friday for their main event clash at UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas. Blaydes (13-2) weighed-in at 261 pounds, while Volkov (31-7) tipped the scales at 247. The two were originally scheduled to meet on this June 20
7:58 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN For Memphis Grizzlies swingman Justise Winslow, the idea of playing out the rest of the season in Orlando, Florida, is “tricky.” Winslow spoke with former NBA forward Caron Butler on the league’s Twitter feed on Friday afternoon and expressed concern about the continuation of the season, the same way he
7:51 PM ET Major League Baseball won’t counter the MLB Players Association’s latest offer to play 70 games this season. Instead, the league is sticking with its most recent offer of 60 games at full prorated salaries. “MLB has informed the Association that it will not respond to our last proposal and will not play
6:53 PM ET It was like Bruno Fernandes had never been away. Among the on-pitch imponderables as Premier League football resumed was whether one of its most in-form players would be able to continue the level of performance that had revitalised Manchester United’s season after he joined the club in January. Ninety minutes in north
4:55 PM ET Associated Press FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots are offering season-ticket holders at an elevated risk of COVID-19 infection the chance to skip the 2020 season entirely and still hold on to their seats for the next year. The policy appears to be the most generous — or perhaps cautious —
2:44 PM ET Associated Press Texas Motor Speedway is planning to have some fans in its massive grandstands when NASCAR runs its rescheduled Cup race there July 19. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has approved a comprehensive action plan to allow fans for the race. The track said the grandstands and suites would be open to
10:56 AM ET The statue of former Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall, who was forced to integrate his franchise in the early 1960s, was removed outside of RFK Stadium on Friday morning. Events DC, which is in charge of RFK Stadium, removed the statue. Max Brown, the chairman of the Events DC board of