9:00 AM ET Steve KimESPN With the UFC set to resume on May 9 and only occasional, regional fight cards (such as the one in Nicaragua on April 25) breaking a long stretch without fights, boxing fans are all asking the same question: When will boxing’s biggest promotions return to action? Boxing could follow in
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3:20 PM ET Chief medical officers from major sports leagues participated in a call Tuesday with Seema Verma, who is a member of the White House coronavirus task force and administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services. The call, according to a White House official, was to go over how sports plays a
3:41 PM ET North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said that he expects one of NASCAR’s crown jewel events, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, to take place during its traditional Memorial Day weekend date of Sunday, May 24, “unless health conditions go down.” Cooper made the comments on Tuesday afternoon during his daily press
8:12 AM ET Like many college athletes in their final season of eligibility, John Augenstein is living with the fact that he will to not be able to finish what he started at Vanderbilt. Making matters worse is the possibility of missing out on the Masters. Augenstein was playing a practice round at Augusta National
10:59 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Wood, the Hampshire left-arm seamer, has revealed an 11-year fight against gambling addiction. Wood, who has won four white-ball trophies with Hampshire since making his first-team debut in 2010, has not placed a bet since December 2018 after a long battle against addiction. He has regularly suffered from long-term
Formula 1 has almost doubled the shutdown period for teams as the coronavirus crisis continues to play havoc with the 2020 championship. The period factories must be closed for and employees related to car performance away from work is now 63 consecutive days – up from 35. Teams began shutdowns on different dates in March.
11:57 AM ET Steve KimESPN One of the more anticipated fights that was tentatively planned for the spring was the matchup between WBC junior lightweight world titlist Miguel Berchelt (who lives in Mexico) and his mandatory challenger Oscar Valdez (who lives in California). The bout was easily makeable given that both fighters are aligned with
10:05 PM IST Chris Gayle has singled out former West Indies team-mate Ramnaresh Sarwan for playing a “big part” in Jamaica Tallawahs releasing him from their Caribbean Premier League set-up recently. In an outburst, released in a personal video on YouTube on Monday, Gayle also blamed Tallawahs’ chief executive officer Jeff Miller and owner Krish
10:22 AM BST England prop Ellis Genge has called for a new, more independent players’ union amid dissatisfaction among fellow professionals about how pay cuts have been handled by clubs and rugby authorities during the coronavirus pandemic. Genge said the Rugby Players’ Association (RPA), founded in 1998, is reluctant to “bite the hand that feeds”
10:02 AM ET The NHL season remains paused due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the league is offering fans a unique way to support their team while also following social distancing guidelines. The NHL is now selling licensed cloth face coverings, featuring all 31 team logos, on the league’s apparel website. NHL-licensed cloth face coverings
7:33 AM ET NBA Insiders Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls built a dynasty in the 1990s. Their six NBA titles came in a pair of three-peats and included a 72-win season, multiple MVPs and multiple scoring titles. Our NBA experts ranked each Bulls title team from worst to best, considering the quality of each
7:48 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 2001, Albert Pujols set the rookie record for homers in April with eight. Former Royals catcher Mike Macfarlane
7:35 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 When Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao finally jumped in the ring together five years ago on May 2, 2015, the fight became the richest
3:06 AM ET The Lakers have been in contact with the Los Angeles mayor’s office to discuss the possibility of opening their practice facility for players before the current shelter-at-home order for Los Angeles residents expires on May 15, sources close to the matter told ESPN. The NBA announced Monday it would allow players to
12:17 PM IST Australian cricket’s state associations and players’ union will be presented with Cricket Australia’s opened financial books and forecasts on Thursday, the same day centrally contracted players for Australia’s men’s and women’s team are to be announced. While April 30 had always been set down as the deadline for CA central contracts to
1:41 AM ET Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia — Stefanos Tsitsipas sent his tennis mate Nick Kyrgios a special 25th birthday greeting. Unfortunately for Kyrgios, it contained too much information. Tsitsipas, who is Greek, sent an Instagram message to Kyrgios, who is an Australian of Greek heritage. In it, Tsitsipas held up a cardboard sign that
12:51 AM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — In a phone-a-friend moment during the coronavirus pandemic, Adam Scott reached out to a fellow golfer who’d been waiting for his call. Under the headline “No cameras, no trophies, but Adam Scott just won the lockdown’s act of kindness award,” the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported Tuesday about
10:23 PM ET Bellator women’s flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, her sister Mahina Macfarlane Souza and an unnamed woman filed a civil lawsuit last Wednesday accusing a former coach at a Hawaii private school of sexual abuse, according to court documents. The lawsuit, filed in Hawaii circuit court, alleges that former assistant basketball coach Dwayne Yuen