3:17 PM ET The expansion Seattle Kraken haven’t established a timeline for naming their first head coach, citing uncertainty regarding the 2020-21 NHL season. “No real rush on the timeline there. We still don’t have an understanding of what the 2020-21 season is going to look like, and how many games that they’ll play,” general
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3:06 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN RJ Barrett says he is using failing to make either the first or second All-Rookie NBA teams this past season as motivation heading into his sophomore campaign. “It bothered me a lot,” Barrett said Tuesday as the New York Knicks opened training camp. “Not going to lie. It bothered me
3:02 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers have found their home for the holidays. Days after they were blindsided by the announcement from Santa Clara County that contact sports are banned for the next three weeks, the 49ers have officially decided to move their entire football operation to Arizona for at
3:14 PM ET The New York Mets have reached agreement on a two-year contract with right-handed reliever Trevor May, sources confirm to ESPN. The deal is pending a physical and could be official as soon as Wednesday, the sources said. May, 31, was 1-0 with a 3.86 ERA and two saves in 24 appearances for
2:46 PM ET Retired Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops made a brief return to the field on Tuesday, coach Lincoln Riley said. “We brought Coach Stoops out of retirement today,” Riley said at his weekly news conference. “He was out on the field and coached with us today. It was great to have him out there.”
2:08 PM ET Ohio State will resume team activities Tuesday as it hopes to play later this week at Michigan State. The fourth-ranked Buckeyes paused activities Friday night and canceled Saturday’s game at Illinois after a rise in COVID-19 cases in the program. Ohio State hasn’t revealed specific numbers of those who have tested positive,
2:30 PM ET The Stanford football team will spend at least the next two weeks on the road after Santa Clara County issued a health order over the weekend that temporarily prevents contact sports. Stanford will travel to Seattle on Tuesday ahead of Saturday’s game at Washington, then will travel to Corvallis, Oregon, where it
Williams driver George Russell is the leading contender to replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes for this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix. Mercedes have guided Russell’s career since 2017 and have approached Williams to see if the team would release him. The fall-back position is for Mercedes to use their reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne. He raced for
1:18 PM ET Iowa senior center Luka Garza highlights the list of 50 preseason candidates for the 2021 Wooden Award that was announced Tuesday. Garza, one of five finalists for the 2020 award and the reigning Big Ten Player of the Year, leads an Iowa team that is ranked No. 3 in the current AP
1:37 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN A lifelong lesson has come back to help Victor Oladipo amid rumors the Pacers star wants out of Indiana. “Growing up, I was always taught not to engage in nonsense,” Oladipo said. “I never have. I never came out and said that I didn’t want to play for the Pacers
1:10 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones does not sound as if he has any sympathy for the Denver Broncos being forced to use practice-squad wide receiver Kendall Hinton at quarterback in Week 12 against the New Orleans Saints. “I don’t know that Denver had any more of
11:30 AM ET USC is cleared to resume workouts Tuesday as the team prepares for Sunday’s game against Washington State. Coach Clay Helton said USC’s latest round of COVID-19 tests all came back negative. The Washington State game was moved from Friday to Sunday, which allows both teams to get players back from coronavirus-related quarantine.
12:33 PM ET Associated Press Oklahoma plans to open its men’s basketball season on Thursday against Texas-San Antonio after a weeklong delay. Oklahoma was scheduled to play the Roadrunners last Wednesday, but the Sooners paused team activities after a spike in COVID-19 cases. Oklahoma’s game against Central Florida scheduled for last Saturday was postponed, and
12:48 PM ET Villanova and Virginia will face off in the Holiday Hoops Classic on Dec. 19 at Madison Square Garden, it was announced Tuesday. The game between the last two men’s basketball national champions will be the first college basketball game at MSG since the Big East tournament was canceled due to coronavirus back
11:19 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Three Denver Broncos quarterbacks, including starter Drew Lock, can return to practice and the team’s facility Wednesday after each tested negative Tuesday for COVID-19, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN. Lock, Brett Rypien and Blake Bortles, who is on the practice squad, were deemed high-risk close contacts to Jeff Driskel,
12:47 PM ET Sarah Fuller is expected to continue as Vanderbilt’s place-kicker on Saturday against Georgia. Last weekend Fuller became the first woman to participate in a Power 5 football game when she delivered the second-half kickoff against Missouri — a designed squib kick that was downed without a return at the 35-yard line. Fuller
10:55 AM ET Lithuanian guard/forward Deividas Sirvydis has agreed to a three-year contract with the Detroit Pistons, agents Michael Tellem of CAA Sports and Marius Rutkauskas told ESPN. Sirvydis, 20, is well regarded for his 3-point shooting and floor spacing. Sirvydis, the 37th overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft, played the 2019-20 season with
11:18 AM ET Cleveland Browns safety Ronnie Harrison could miss the rest of the regular season with a shoulder injury he suffered Sunday, a source told ESPN. Harrison is expected to be out 4-6 weeks, though there’s hope he could return before the playoffs, should the 8-3 Browns advance to the postseason. Harrison injured the