7:00 AM ET Major League Baseball is aiming for a 60-game 2020 MLB season as training camps begin in ballparks across the country this week. If they do play, that means we’ll have pennant races and a postseason and MVP awards to hand out. I thought it would be fun to go over the past
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6:00 AM BST Former All Blacks flyhalf Dan Carter will make a return to his native Canterbury for his first rugby game in New Zealand since 2015 at the weekend, but will still wear the blue and white colours of their intense provincial rivals Auckland. The 38-year-old Carter, who spent his entire New Zealand professional
5:11 PM IST England and West Indies will be presented with red caps and wear specially-designed playing shirts on the second day of the third Test at Emirates Old Trafford to raise awareness for the Ruth Strauss Foundation. The charity, which was launched last year, is named after Sir Andrew Strauss’ late wife Ruth, who
6:00 AM BST Crusaders captain Scott Barrett could be out of action for up to four months after undergoing foot surgery, his coach Scott Robertson said on Thursday. Robertson said it would be about 12-16 weeks before Barrett would be able to play again, which could also affect his chances of playing for the All
6:00 AM ET Kelly CohenESPN Whether it’s a barbecue sandwich smothered in so much sauce you don’t know where the bun begins and ends, corn-on-the-cob or the simple hot dog, there is something special about Fourth of July food. No one knows this better than a few former NFL players. Just ask George Foster, who
Not all superheroes wear capes, but this year Adrian Newey has decided to don his. Red Bull’s renowned design genius has decided to fit his 2020 car with what engineers in Formula 1 call a ‘cape’. This is following a lead by Mercedes, who introduced this aerodynamic component in 2017, and still run it today.
6:22 PM ET Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Carolina Hurricanes president and general manager Don Waddell said Wednesday that executive Rick Dudley won’t return and that the team is still in talks with longtime TV play-by-play announcer John Forslund on a new deal. Dudley, 71, had worked as the Hurricanes’ senior vice president of hockey
6:54 PM ET LONDON — Ben Chilwell won’t fix Chelsea‘s defending by himself. Frank Lampard has serious designs on a Premier League title challenge next season, but the Blues must surely target further reinforcements at the back for that to become a reality. That’s not to say Chilwell isn’t a fine player. He is valued
11:06 AM IST Madushka Balasuriya Sri Lanka Cricket is hopeful the Lanka Premier League will go ahead as scheduled in August, despite the Sri Lankan government pushing back the August 1 reopening of the country’s main airport in Katunayake. Sri Lanka’s sports ministry last week gave a go-ahead for the tournament, which has been scheduled
10:58 PM ET The Washington Redskins face renewed pressure to change their nickname, but this time protestors are targeting their sponsors, Adweek reported. According to the report Wednesday, Nike, FedEx and PepsiCo each received letters signed by 87 investment firms and shareholders worth a combined $620 billion asking the companies to sever ties with the
9:24 PM ET Steve KimESPN The WBC has ordered a fight between Luke Campbell and Ryan Garcia for the organization’s interim lightweight title. This opportunity became available after the WBC’s top-rated lightweight, Javier Fortuna, opted to face Jorge Linares on Aug. 28. Campbell and Garcia are ranked second and third by the WBC, respectively. “I’m
9:07 PM ET DETROIT — The PGA Tour announced a significant change to its COVID-19 policies Wednesday that will now allow players or caddies who test positive but are asymptomatic to return to competition if they return two negative test results at least 24 hours apart. Prior to this change, the Tour required a minimum
9:06 PM ET A total of 14 Oklahoma football players have tested positive for the coronavirus, along with two of the 72 staff members who were tested, the school announced Wednesday as it began voluntary workouts. As a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the athletic department also announced it has implemented budget cuts of
7:53 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Lakers coach Frank Vogel says the team will not seek a replacement player for Dwight Howard for the Orlando restart. And, according to Vogel, the team will not ask the replacement player that it did add, JR Smith, to play like the player he replaced, Avery Bradley. Speaking on
8:14 PM ET DETROIT — The nine-hole exhibition match between Bubba Watson and Harold Varner III against Jason Day and Wesley Bryan at The Rocket Mortgage Classic helped raise more than $1 million toward the tournament’s charity initiative Wednesday. Watson and Varner won the match and Watson donated $25,000 to Changing the Course. Rickie Fowler,
6:48 PM ET ESPN News Services GLENDALE, Ariz. — The start of Phil Kessel‘s desert tenure did not go according to plan, for him or the Arizona Coyotes. Expected to give the Coyotes a scoring jolt, Kessel instead labored, in large part due to a string of injuries. The NHL’s pandemic-caused pause has give the
5:24 PM ET Nick JuddTransfer writer Chelsea‘s winning run of five consecutive victories came to an end at the London Stadium on Wednesday as West Ham United boosted their chances of survival with a dramatic late winner from Andriy Yarmolenko to earn a 3-2 result. Chelsea subsequently stay in fourth place after failing to take
4:12 PM ET The NBA office has assured the league’s coaches’ association that “age alone” will not be enough to prevent a coach from going to the Walt Disney World Resort for the restart of the season. Individuals at high risk for serious coronavirus complications will not go, but simply being older, without other risks,