2:06 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN New Orleans Pelicans rookie forward Zion Williamson will not play Friday night against the Washington Wizards, according to the team. The team listed Williamson as out (rest) on its injury report Friday afternoon. Williamson played just under 22 minutes in the Pelicans’ 140-125 loss to the Sacramento Kings on Thursday,
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4:12 AM BST Warren Gatland says he would like to continue coaching at New Zealand’s Chiefs next year if the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa is unable to go ahead due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gatland’s four-year deal at the Chiefs gives him the second season off in order to coach the
7:08 AM ET It is not uncommon for a UFC Fight Night’s main event to eclipse all that is scheduled to come before on that evening, at least in the anticipation for the fights. That is not the case for Saturday’s UFC Fight Night headliner inside the promotion’s Apex facility in Las Vegas. Now, that’s
10:35 PM ET The question hung in the air all week: What would the 2020 PGA Championship, the first major in 13 months and first without fans, look and feel like? On Thursday, we got the answer. “It’s just different,” Tiger Woods said. “That’s probably the only way to say it.” Different, but still intriguing.
7:10 AM ET Here are 10 things I like and don’t like from the NBA restart: 1. The champs’ defense: the most exciting nerd thing in the NBA Nick Nurse’s funky zones get the attention, but Toronto’s base defense is one of the best night-to-night shows in the NBA. The Raptors in full flight are
11:53 AM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Titans outside linebacker Vic Beasley, who hadn’t reported to camp since it began July 28, arrived to the team facility for COVID-19 testing on Friday morning. The team hadn’t
4:00 AM ET The Champions League rolls back into action this weekend after a five-month hiatus with the remaining round-of-16 matches. But it’s not just the conclusion of this season’s tournament — the quest to crown the European champions for 2020-21 also begins on Saturday. The Toe Poke Daily is here every day to bring
Lewis Hamilton headed team-mate Valtteri Bottas for Mercedes in second practice at the 70th Anniversary GP. Hamilton was 0.176 seconds ahead of Bottas but on different tyres. Mercedes were assessing which tyres might be most suitable for qualifying as teams struggled with durability in high temperatures at Silverstone. Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo was third, from Red
10:19 AM ET Women’s world No. 5 Elina Svitolina and Kiki Bertens, ranked seventh, joined a growing list of players withdrawing from this month’s US Open due to the coronavirus pandemic on Friday. Men’s defending champion Rafael Nadal and women’s world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty have opted against travelling to New York to play the
7:00 AM ET Mike Trout homered in his first at-bat as a father on Tuesday, and anybody who has ever spent any time around the Los Angeles Angels‘ star probably muttered something like, “Of course he did.” He does stuff like that all the time, some of it in front of the cameras but much
7:50 PM IST India is set to retain the hosting rights for the 2021 men’s T20 World Cup while Australia have been asked to host the 2022 edition. In another significant decision the ICC also postponed the 2021 women’s ODI World Cup, scheduled in New Zealand between February 6 and March 7, to 2022. All
Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen is out of a coma and in a “good” condition, according to the Tour of Poland organisers. The 23-year-old suffered a high-speed crash at the finish of the opening stage of the race on Wednesday. Jakobsen had facial surgery, but his Deceuninck-QuickStep team denied he had suffered head and brain injuries.
8:14 AM ET VITO MIELNICKI JR. WAS dripping sweat. On a steamy July morning in New Jersey, in the middle of the West Essex High School football field, the promising teenage boxer was about to receive his reward in the culmination of years of hard work. All those 4 a.m. alarms to get strength and
8:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors Athletic directors Scott Stricklin and David Coburn had discussed for months their intentions to keep the Florida-Florida State rivalry game on the schedule. No matter what. Then, on July 29, Coburn’s phone rang. It was Stricklin, the Florida AD, calling from Gainesville. There would be no Florida-Florida State game in
World champions Mercedes have reached an impasse with Formula 1 in negotiations over a new contract to stay in the sport after this season. Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said he believed they were “the biggest victim in terms of revenue loss” in the new financial arrangements proposed by F1. He added they had concerns
3:24 PM ET In the best of times, the top-level FBS athletic director has a difficult job. He or she is not only the CEO of a business with a nine-figure budget, but also the person who oversees the dreams of hundreds of student-athletes, 18-to-22-year-olds who aspire to a college diploma and/or a professional career.
7:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Brooklyn, Michigan, for a double-dip of races Saturday and Sunday. Racing begins Saturday with the FireKeepers Casino 400 (4 p.m. ET) and continues with the Consumers Energy 400 on Sunday (4:30 p.m. ET). Brad Keselowski won the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 in New
7:00 AM ET Under the NHL’s CBA, players are required to wear a suit, dress shirt and tie to the arena on game days “unless otherwise specified by the head coach or manager.” It’s the only major professional sports league in North America with such a strict dress code. “Once you get onto the plane,