8:00 AM ET The past month hadn’t been kind to Auburn. COVID-19 testing wiped out almost an entire week of football practice at one point in late August. In preseason camp, there wasn’t a single week when the Tigers were able to keep the same five offensive linemen together, and this was a group that
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Lewis Hamilton has admitted he “may not always get it right” after accusing Formula 1 bosses of “trying to stop him” at the Russian Grand Prix. Hamilton lost the lead of the race as a result of a 10-second penalty for making two practice starts in the wrong place. “I may not always react the
Mick Schumacher is one of three Ferrari academy drivers who will be given Formula 1 race weekend debuts in forthcoming races. Schumacher, son of seven-time champion Michael, and British driver Callum Ilott will both drive in first practice at the Eifel Grand Prix on 9 October. German Schumacher will drive an Alfa Romeo and Ilott
6:45 AM ET An hour before the 2019 NBA Finals tipped off in Toronto — the first time the league’s showcase event had been played outside the United States — commissioner Adam Silver reminded those watching that basketball’s founder, James Naismith, was a Christian missionary who brought the game to China and Europe in the
6:11 AM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup. Just a year later than many experts expected. In defeating the Dallas Stars Monday, the Lightning redeemed one of the biggest upsets in recent sports history. Last season, Tampa Bay had the league’s best record. Winger Nikita Kucherov won the Ross, Lindsay
Former F1 driver Jolyon Palmer, who left Renault during the 2017 season, is part of the BBC team and offers insight and analysis from the point of view of the competitors. The Russian Grand Prix will not go down as a classic. Lewis Hamilton’s penalties killed off what could have been an intriguing battle for
2:53 AM BST Rugby World Cup holders South Africa are “desperate” to play in the Rugby Championship this year, but there remains a number of hurdles before they will commit to the competition, according to director of rugby Rassie Erasmus. The Southern Hemisphere competition will be staged in Australia from Nov. 7 to Dec. 12
12:12 AM ET Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson are many things — quarterbacks, playmakers, artists and friends. But right now, one thing they are most certainly not is rivals. Mahomes is too good to have a rival. He proved Monday night that he is playing a different game than everybody else, with the same wonderment
6:23 PM ET LIVERPOOL, England — So much for Liverpool’s “nightmare” start to the season. Three games in and the reigning champions have aced it so far by beating last season’s Championship winners (Leeds United), Europe’s biggest summer spenders (Chelsea) and a resurgent Arsenal side — 3-1 on Monday at Anfield — that only last
7:50 PM ET The risk profile on next season, already trending toward the red, just got hotter for the LA Clippers. After a devastating postseason collapse along with the crashing realization that both Kawhi Leonard and Paul George can become free agents next summer, parting with Doc Rivers Monday has only increased the stakes. This
11:20 PM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning eschewed tradition after Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final, surrounding NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and hockey’s Holy Grail as a team rather than having it handed off to captain Steven Stamkos alone. The result resembled a jubilant class portrait on the last day of school. The last
10:58 PM ET The 2019-20 NHL season will be remembered for quite some time, thanks to a pause because of the coronavirus pandemic that kept players off the ice for months and ended seven teams’ seasons. As we bear witness to the first 24-team postseason tournament, we continue to look ahead to what’s next. As
3:13 AM GMT Ellyse Perry, who has been aiming to return from major hamstring surgery, has been ruled out of the remainder of Australia’s limited overs series against New Zealand – not that the team’s performances in the opening two T20Is indicated she would be needed anyway. The world’s best allrounder, Perry suffered from hamstring
10:11 PM ET Conor McGregor has attempted to book himself in yet another fight, despite past remarks that he’s retired. On Monday, the UFC superstar proposed a charity MMA fight to former opponent Dustin Poirier on Twitter. The exhibition, McGregor wrote, would be on pay-per-view and proceeds would go to Poirier’s The Good Fight Foundation
9:10 PM ET UFC middleweight Paulo Costa referred to his recent opponent and UFC champion Israel Adesanya as “human trash” on Monday, for Adesanya’s postfight actions at UFC 253 on Saturday. Costa (13-1) lost to Adesanya (20-0) via second-round TKO on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Adesanya finished the fight with punches
9:20 PM ET Associated Press Dustin Johnson leads the top five players in the world who have committed to play the CJ Cup at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, the start of a two-week stretch of relocated Asia events that includes Tiger Woods returning to California. The CJ Cup typically is held in South Korea,
6:06 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 Former world featherweight champion Lee Selby will meet George Kambosos Jr. in a final eliminator for the IBF world lightweight title on Oct. 31,
5:18 PM ET Doc Rivers is out as head coach of the LA Clippers, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, following a season that fell well short of championship expectations after the team landed All-Stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George last summer. Against the Denver Nuggets, the Clippers squandered a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference