6:54 PM ET NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said that starting the 2020-21 season as late as December is on the table as the league considers all options for finishing this season and beginning the following one. “We have a great deal of flexibility in terms of when we can start,” Bettman said in an interview
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6:33 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche have agreed to a three-year, entry-level deal with goaltender Justus Annunen, the team announced Thursday. The 20-year-old Finnish product was a third-round pick by Colorado in the 2018 draft. He was 15-5-3 with a 1.77 goals-against average this season for Karpat, a team in Finland’s
6:50 AM ET NFL NationESPN The NFL draft is typically about who’s next for each team. But while veteran players might receive more competition from the annual influx of rookies, the newbies can actually provide some help and positive clarity for the vets, too. That’s where we went with this edition of the NFL Power
5:25 PM ET Steve KimESPN Negotiations are underway for a potential blockbuster heavyweight title unification fight between champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, sources told ESPN’s Mark Kriegel. Fury’s adviser, MTK, which is based in Dubai, is negotiating for Fury on behalf of his co-promoters, Top
5:33 PM ET The PGA Tour is putting on hold its qualification criteria for eligibility, meaning that golfers who are exempt this season and fall outside of the top 125 FedEx Cup points earners will not lose their spot in the 2020-21 season. The move was made in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has
6:56 PM ET Arty Berko If Americans think self-quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States has been tough, go talk to former MLB pitcher Josh Roenicke. He is entering his third season with the Uni-President Lions of Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) — and the pandemic even stretched Roenicke’s love for baseball.
3:35 PM ET As the NBA’s hiatus in response to the coronavirus pandemic has pushed past seven weeks, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James remains steadfast in his commitment to salvaging some sort of conclusion to the season. “As soon as it’s safe we would like to finish our season,” read part of a tweet
3:27 PM ET ESPN News Services The Little League World Series will not be played this year for the first time since the organization began because of the coronavirus pandemic. Little League International, which announced the move Thursday, also canceled regional tournaments and the championship tournaments in other Little League divisions, including softball, but said
1:46 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer Eugenie Bouchard came out strong over Donna Vekic in their Mutua Madrid Open Virtual Pro round-robin match on Monday, with the Canadian blanking her opponent in the first game before trailing 0-15 in the second. Then she was disconnected. Vekic saw a message on her screen that declared her
12:47 PM BST The French Top 14 rugby league organisers (LNR) and club presidents have reached an agreement to abandon the season, the LNR said on Thursday. French prime minister Edouard Philippe said on Tuesday that the 2019-20 season of sport would not be able to resume, although the government’s measures to contain the spread
11:39 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show The British Boxing Board of Control hopes professional boxing will return in the UK in July — but will limit the number of fights
8:00 AM ET Joey Gallo jumped at the chance to join the MLB The Show Players League. He knew how much fans have missed live sports during the coronavirus pandemic, and he knew the opportunity video games represented for Major League Baseball. “They should have done this a long time ago,” the Texas Rangers slugger
7:00 AM ET Editor’s note: This piece on Michael Jordan was originally published in the March 4, 2013, issue of ESPN The Magazine. Watch episodes five and six of “The Last Dance” on Sunday, May 3, at 9 p.m. ET. on ESPN. FIVE WEEKS BEFORE his 50th birthday, Michael Jordan sits behind his desk, overlooking
9:49 AM ET World No. 1 Novak Djokovic has said he initially struggled to adjust to the coronavirus shutdown and felt “empty and confused” at the uncertainty around the season restart. The sport is suspended until at least mid-July due to the virus, which has infected more than 3.19 million people and killed almost 227,000.
8:18 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Former Bengal captain Subimal “Chuni” Goswami died in Kolkata on Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest. He was 82 and had been suffering from underlying ailments, including sugar, prostate and nerve problems. He is survived by his wife Basanti and son Sudipto. Goswami was among the rare sportsmen who played
9:00 AM ET Tom Luginbill Close ESPN Analyst Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall Craig Haubert Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst and analyst for ESPNU More than a decade of college and pro coaching experience. Graduated from Indiana and Nebraska-Omaha The
RK PLAYER POS HOMETOWN HT WT STARS GRADE SCHOOL 1 DE Pickerington, OHPickerington North High School 6’5” 230 91 Ohio StateCommitted02/03/2019 2 OT Fort Worth, TXAll Saints Episcopal School 6’6” 280 91 3 DE Corona, CACentennial High School 6’4” 265 91 4 DT Bellevue, WAEastside Catholic High School 6’5” 280 90 5 DT Miami, FLMiami
8:00 AM ET Bill Connelly Close ESPN Staff Writer Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia As college football rivalries go, it’s hard to top The Game. When Michigan and Ohio