10:26 PM ET Racing returned to Churchill Downs on Saturday, after a layoff because of the coronavirus pandemic, and former Kentucky Oaks winner Monomoy Girl highlighted the 11-race card. With new safety protocols in place, and no fans in the stands, Monomoy Girl won a one-mile allowance event in the fourth race on opening day
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6:58 PM ET Phyllis George, a former Miss America winner who became a pioneer in sports journalism and football broadcasting when in 1975 she was named a co-host for The NFL Today, has died at the age of 70. George died Thursday from complications from a blood disorder, her ex-husband, former Kentucky Governor John Brown
3:54 PM ET How eager are we for baseball? More than a little — heck, a lot. And now that we’re witnessing the industry tiptoe toward a plan for reinitiating the 2020 campaign for Major League Baseball, we can’t help speculating what a baseball season will look like. Last night, Bryce Harper got into the
6:30 PM ET Associated Press The 145th Preakness Stakes has been rescheduled for Oct. 3, an announcement delivered Saturday less than hour before the original post time for the Triple Crown race. Traditionally held at Pimlico Race Course on the third Saturday in May, the Preakness was postponed April 3 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
8:00 PM ET As the nation reels from the coronavirus pandemic, Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard is mourning the loss of Melissa Rios, the mother of his 6-year-old son David, he told reporters Friday. Rios, 31, died of an epileptic seizure on March 27 at her home in Calabasas, California. “I’ve had some things
2:55 PM ET UCLA is expected to finalize a deal to make Martin Jarmond its next athletic director, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg. Jarmond has served as Boston College’s AD since 2017. He will replace longtime Bruins AD Dan Guererro, who announced last year that he would be retiring effective this July. Guerrero,
8:20 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 1965, Jim Palmer recorded his first major league victory. Jim Palmer was 19 — long, lean, loose and
12:32 PM ET Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — Lim Hee-jeong shot an 8-under 64 on Saturday for a three-stroke lead after three rounds of the KLPGA Championship. She was followed by Park Hyun-kyung (67) and overnight leader Bae Seon-woo (72). Lim was at 15-under 201 overall at Lakewood Country Club. The women’s tournament joins
11:09 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Alex Bowman has signed a one-year contract extension to remain with Hendrick Motorsports through 2021. The announcement Saturday came the day before NASCAR resumes its season at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. Bowman goes into the event already qualified for the playoffs as winner at California on
6:00 AM ET On Jan. 12, Marshal Yanda sat at home, feeling more frustrated and ticked off than he’d ever been. It was a day after the Baltimore Ravens’ shocking loss to the Tennessee Titans in the divisional round of the playoffs. The most successful and — as Yanda views it — fun season of
5:54 AM ET British boxing promoter Eddie Hearn is planning to organise fights in his own back garden when professional boxing returns in July from the coronavirus lockdown. First reported in the Daily Mail, the Matchroom Boxing boss’s mansion home in Brentwood, to the north-east of London, has extensive grounds, and Hearn has said he
8:11 AM ET They will be carrying their own bags, putting to flagsticks that likely won’t be tended and retrieving their golf balls from a cup prepped for safety. But they also are four professional golfers who compete at the highest level, and they will be shown competing live on television. It’s a start. The
8:00 AM ET If you’re really going to get into this thing, you’ve gotta pick a team. That was my first thought as rumors swirled that KBO broadcasts might be coming to ESPN and that there might be a way for this MLB editor who is very much missing the sport to watch live baseball
7:59 AM ET THE GOLDEN STATE Warriors know how fleeting life atop the basketball world can be. Following five consecutive NBA Finals trips, the team suddenly finds itself out of postseason contention in 2019-20 with a league-worst 15-50 record. Serious injuries to star players and the departure of Kevin Durant, a two-time Finals MVP, will
7:00 AM ET Editor’s note: This as-told-to, from Phil Jackson, on Chicago’s historic 1998 playoff run and the end of the Bulls’ dynasty, was originally published in the May 18, June 1 and July 13, 1998, issues of ESPN The Magazine. Watch Episodes 9 & 10 of “The Last Dance” on Sunday at 9 p.m.
4:22 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The PCB is “very optimistic” about the operational plans being put into place for this summer’s tour of England by Pakistan and has reached an agreement in principle after ECB assurances, as elite-level cricket plots a re-start after months of worldwide lockdown. The two boards held a meeting on Friday
1:39 AM BST ESPN staff South Africa hooker Malcolm Marx has cancelled his contract with the Lions Super Rugby franchise. The Rugby World Cup winner is one of four players and one coach to leave the Lions after the introduction of the Industry Salary Plan to deal with the repercussions of the coronavirus, under which
10:36 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Chris Gayle has avoided sanction for his public criticism of Ramnaresh Sarwan and other Jamaica Tallawahs personnel, after the CPL Tournament Committee (CTC) said in a media release on Friday that it was satisfied with the batsman’s statement, even though he stood by his comments – calling Sarwan a “snake”