5:52 PM IST In our #retrolive series, we rewind to classic matches to bring you the ball-by-ball commentary and match coverage as if the games were happening live, for the first time. This time, we turn the clock back to October 21, 1996, and to the India v Australia Titan Cup match in Bengaluru. Big
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12:29 PM ET Associated Press The NFL’s successful virtual draft and uncertainty surrounding the resumption of hockey this season have raised the possibility of an NHL draft held before the Stanley Cup Final. After postponing its draft scheduled for June 26-27 in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the NHL is considering having it earlier in
12:10 PM ET ESPN News Services MINNEAPOLIS — With the end of this virus-disrupted school year drawing nearer, a predictably bleak financial outlook for major college sports has emerged from the budgeting process. There’s a $4 million deficit in the Minnesota athletic department’s forecast for the fiscal year ending June 30, and athletic director Mark
8:59 PM IST Bangladesh’s cricketers’ body is planning to hold elections soon after the country’s Covid-19 general holiday ends. The Cricketers’ Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB) is likely to set an election date when all Dhaka Premier League cricketers come to the capital to play the 2019-20 season. Following an online meeting that the CWAB
Lewis Hamilton says he is “enjoying” some aspects of Formula 1’s enforced break because it has given him time to refresh and revitalise himself. The 2020 season is on hold until July because of the coronavirus pandemic. Hamilton, said: “There have been times in the past five years that I thought a rest would be
6:00 AM ET Ryan Farley needs to get away as part of his writing process. Sometimes it’s as easy as pulling up his Detroit Lions hoodie and getting to work. Other times he needs a full escape, going from Los Angeles to Lake Tahoe when he’s on deadline to finish his script. He’ll sit in
8:21 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 1960, Tony Gwynn was born. Hitting is so much about hand-eye coordination, and no one had more of
First there was Lando Norris and Max Verstappen. Then the likes of Charles Leclerc, George Russell and Alexander Albon got involved and now a four-time Formula 1 world champion has got in on the act. Last Sunday, Sebastian Vettel settled down in front of his computer and took to the virtual circuit as the German
3:03 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Alex Hales has claimed he has “matured as a player and away from the game” since his deselection from England’s World Cup squad after a failed recreational drugs test, and declared that the past six months have been “the best I’ve played in my career” as he presses his case
Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo expects the first race of the season to be chaotic after the long break enforced by the coronavirus crisis. The Australian, 30, believes the length of time since drivers were last in cars will lead to mistakes and incidents. “(It will be) some form of chaos, hopefully in a controlled manner,” Ricciardo
10:09 PM ET Ronaldo “J’acare” Souza, who was scheduled to fight Uriah Hall at UFC 249 on Saturday, has tested positive for coronavirus. While Souza will not fight, the UFC 249 card will go on as planned, Hunter Campbell, excecutive vice president and chief business officer of UFC told ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith on Friday.
10:47 PM ET Associated Press Kyle Larson has returned to racing for the first time since he was fired by Chip Ganassi Racing for using a racial slur in an iRacing event last month. Larson was one of 48 drivers attempting to make the main event Friday night in the World of Outlaws race at
11:27 PM ET NCAA president Mark Emmert said he does not envision schools being ready to begin competing in college football or other fall sports unless students return to campuses around the country. In an interview shown on the NCAA’s official Twitter account Friday night, Emmert said he’s spoken to hundreds of presidents and commissioners
9:44 PM ET As Kevin Love made the 20-minute drive from his home to the Cleveland Cavaliers‘ practice facility Friday, even the snow flurry being cleared by his SUV’s window wipers on a May day in Northeast Ohio didn’t dampen his mood. “It was the longest I’ve ever gone without shooting a basketball,” Love told
8:11 PM ET NBA commissioner Adam Silver prepared players for a potentially grim landscape amid the coronavirus pandemic, suggesting there are no guarantees when fans could fully return to NBA arenas next season. Silver said that 40 percent of the league’s revenue comes from money built around game nights in arenas. “This could turn out
6:10 PM ET Augusta National has made a sizable donation to a local food bank that includes 50,000 bags of potato chips that would have been sold at the postponed Masters Tournament. According to the Augusta Chronicle, the club donated approximately 2,000 pounds of produce, bread and dairy items along with the potato chips to
5:27 PM ET WBC junior lightweight champion Miguel Berchelt, WBO junior featherweight champion Emanuel Navarrete and WBO junior lightweight champion Elwin Soto are among the fighters Zanfer Promotions is planning to feature as part of a resumption of boxing in Mexico in June, organization president Fernando Beltran told ESPN. Beltran told ESPN that fans will
5:00 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — The New Orleans Saints released Pro Bowl right guard Larry Warford on Friday, saving the team more than $7 million in salary-cap space and paving the way for first-round draft pick Cesar Ruiz to earn a starting job. Warford, who turns 29 next month, made the Pro Bowl in