6:55 PM ET The NBA is reopening team practice facilities for players in states and municipalities that are loosening stay-at-home restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic beginning on Friday, sources told ESPN. Players can return to team facilities in states such as Georgia for voluntary individual workouts as soon as next week, which allows for NBA
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2:05 PM ET Baseball, at this moment, is like the craft of Apollo 13. Badly damaged, drifting, its original mission obsolete; the great plans for what was supposed to be have been scrapped. The question now is whether it can return, through collaboration and imagination. For Apollo 13, a fight among the astronauts about who
6:01 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — A major league official testified he suggested Ángel Hernández be removed from consideration for the 2015 World Series because he did not think commissioner Rob Manfred would approve the umpire to work baseball’s premier event. Hernández sued Major League Baseball in 2017, alleging race discrimination and cited
4:36 PM ET Texas Tech freshman Jahmi’us Ramsey declared for the 2020 NBA draft on Saturday. The No. 23 prospect in the ESPN 100, Ramsey emerged as one of the top freshman guards in this year’s class with a strong season in the Big 12. He averaged 15.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.2 assists for
11:21 AM ET Associated Press WELCOME, N.C. — NASCAR team owner Richard Childress is auctioning off one of racing legend Dale Earnhardt’s cars to raise money for coronavirus relief efforts. The Charlotte Observer reports that this is the first time Childress has sold or given away an original Earnhardt car from his personal collection. A
9:48 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Pakistan Women allrounder Sana Mir has announced her retirement from international cricket, bringing an end to a 15-year career. Mir, who made her international debut in 2005, took 151 wickets in 120 ODIs and 89 wickets in 106 T20Is. Last November, Mir had taken a break from international cricket and
9:03 AM ET John Keim Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered the Redskins for the Washington Examiner and other media outlets since 1994 Authored or co-authored three books on the Redskins and one on the Cleveland Browns Courtney Cronin Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered the 49ers, Raiders and Warriors for the San Jose Mercury News. She
From angry cries over the team radio, to indifferent answers given in a press conference. When it comes to memorable quotes in sport, Formula 1 has heard it all. Below are 10 questions featuring soundbites from drivers, engineers and exasperated team bosses. All you have to do is select the right answer from three options
11:42 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff With the ECB having confirmed the English season will now not begin until July 1 at the earliest, cricket’s options for the summer are beginning to narrow. Here we go through some of the key issues for the game, following a briefing by the ECB’s chief executive, Tom Harrison. Fate
12:38 PM GMT Tom Harrison has insisted the “case for The Hundred” is “much greater than it was” in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. While Harrison, the ECB chief executive, admitted the ECB were “starting to get comfortable with the idea there won’t be crowds this summer” and, as a result, accepted “it’s going to
3:27 AM BST Quadriplegic former professional rugby player Ed Jackson has scaled the height of Mount Everest by hauling himself up and down the stairs of his parents’ house and raised more than 41,000 pounds ($US50,647.30) for charity. It took Jackson four days to climb 5,566 flights of stairs with 89,058 steps on one working
5:19 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Graeme Watson, the former Australia allrounder who was battling cancer, has died at the age of 75. Primarily a middle-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler, he played five Tests from 1967 to 1972 and two ODIs in 1972. After starting his domestic career at Victoria, Watson earned an Australia call-up
2:30 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff As far as Harbhajan Singh is concerned, MS Dhoni will never play for India again. Harbhajan, who trained with Dhoni in March at the Chennai Super Kings’ preparatory camp for the IPL, said the former India captain had “played enough” for India. Recently, as soon as the BCCI postponed the
10:11 PM ET NFL Nation staff The 2020 NFL draft is underway. While some teams have found their new franchise quarterback in the draft — including Joe Burrow, Tua Tagovailoa and Justin Herbert — others used their picks on elite playmakers on both sides of the ball. And how about all of those trades? If
7:42 PM ET ESPN News Services PULLMAN, Wash. — The Whitman County coroner says a Washington State football player who was found dead in his apartment last month died of acute intoxication. Coroner Annie Pillers said Friday that 22-year-old Bryce Beekman died after consuming a combination of fentanyl and promethazine. Fentanyl is a powerful pain
7:08 PM ET South Carolina athletic director Ray Tanner said the regional differences and restrictions during the coronavirus outbreak could make it challenging for conferences to align on when to play the 2020 college football season. Tanner spoke at a university board meeting Friday about the challenges to reach a consensus on the football season.
6:25 PM ET Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Former Grand Slam doubles champion Bob Hewitt was released from prison on parole on Friday after serving nearly four years of a six-year sentence for the rape and sexual assault of girls he coached in South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. The three victims
6:30 PM ET The SEC broke a record for most first-round picks by a conference in the NFL draft Thursday, beating the previous record of 12 achieved by the ACC and SEC in the past with 15. That type of success often flows into recruiting pitches, showing prospects the proof of development and achieving the