7:37 AM ET Who will be the best players in major league baseball for the 2020 season? To determine this, ESPN polled 40 MLB writers, analysts, contributors and insiders to determine the top 100 and rank them, voting on 200 players. For a basis of comparison, for each player, we’ve looked at where they ranked
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7:40 AM GMT Vishal Dikshit in Mumbai Jonty Rhodes believes South Africa should “do anything” to win the T20 World Cup, and that means picking AB de Villiers, who hasn’t played international cricket for nearly two years. But the former batsman is concerned that picking de Villiers in this fashion could set a worrying “precedent”
8:53 AM ET Dan Rafael Close ESPN Senior Writer 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA Today Steve Kim Boxing is enjoying a renewed sense of excitement surrounding the sport. After a 2019 filled with thrilling and, at times, shocking results like
12:53 AM ET Colorado Avalanche star Nathan MacKinnon exited Monday night’s game against the Los Angeles Kings at Staples Center due to a lower-body injury. MacKinnon had one shot in 11:37 of ice time before leaving in the second period. The team said he was doubtful to return and he was not on the ice
7:18 PM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI — The NBA, NHL, MLB and MLS are closing access to locker rooms and clubhouses to all nonessential personnel in response to the coronavirus crisis, the leagues announced in a joint statement Monday night. The leagues said they made the decision “after consultation with infectious disease and public
11:04 PM ET A week before spring practice opens in Gainesville, Florida, Kyle Trask made it clear what the Gators are shooting for this season. Florida’s soon-to-be redshirt senior quarterback, who didn’t begin last season as the starter, greeted the media Monday at a pre-spring press conference with lofty expectations for a team that checks
7:00 AM ET The Chicago Blackhawks are in playoff race purgatory. With 70 points through 69 games, Chicago remains mathematically relevant — only the Detroit Red Wings have actually been formally eliminated in this NHL season — but the Blackhawks have a less than 4% chance of making the postseason cut. They’re 12 points out
7:58 PM ET The two largest mixed martial arts promotions in the United States, UFC and Bellator, are moving ahead with planned events for now, representatives told ESPN, even as Combate Americas on Monday became the first U.S.-based MMA promotion to cancel an event because of the coronavirus outbreak. UFC vice president of communications Lenee
1:00 PM ET WHEN I WAS traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in the winter of 1997, I was walking into a competition with Lenny Dykstra. He was at the end of his career, injuries were plaguing him and the cloud of performance-enhancing drugs swirled around him. So right out of the gate, I had to
8:24 AM ET Just in case the chatter about Justin Gaethje being considered the front-runner to fight Conor McGregor next wasn’t sinking in, Ali Abdelaziz — the manager of Gaethje and Khabib Nurmagomedov — emphasized over the weekend that there would be no McGregor-Nurmagomedov rematch unless McGregor fights someone like Gaethje first. UFC president Dana
4:35 PM ET Super middleweight world titlist David Benavidez will have a homecoming fight for his first title defense. Benavidez will square off with Roamer Alexis Angulo on April 18 in the main event of a tripleheader on Showtime (10 p.m. ET) at the Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, Premier Boxing Champions and TGB Promotions
Mar 9, 2020 England prop Joe Marler has been cited after he appeared to grab Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones’ around the groin area during his side’s 33-30 Six Nations victory on Saturday. After just 10 minutes of the Twickenham game a melee broke out when Wales had a try disallowed for a George North
4:10 PM BST James Harrington There is some difference between Fantasy Rugby points and on-pitch impressions. The two things are not, necessarily, closely related. And the metrics can be easily questioned but they are the same for everyone and are easy to follow. Scotland were far more than the sum of their individual Fantasy Rugby-scoring
3:15 PM ET The fight between unified junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez and mandatory challenger Viktor Postol was officially rescheduled on Monday. The fight will headline a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on May 9 (ESPN and ESPN Deportes, 10 p.m. ET, with preliminary bouts streaming on ESPN+ beginning at 7 p.m. ET)
3:49 PM ET KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Soon-to-be Carolina Panthers offensive tackle Russell Okung has accused the NFLPA of negotiating the proposed CBA in bad faith taking the step of filing an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board Monday. In the filing, Okung is accusing NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith of
The BBC has live coverage of all three days of the Six Day Manchester event at the National Cycling Centre from 13-15 March. British Olympic stars Katie Archibald, who won last year’s event, and newly crowned points race world champion Elinor Barker will compete together in the madison. Philip Hindes, who took gold in the
7:00 AM ET The next few months without any baseball are going to be rough for MLB fans, so let’s spend a little time appreciating the game we do love as we await its return, starting with these players we don’t talk about enough. Some are simply underrated, some are unappreciated veterans we maybe take
1:42 PM ET Another boxing event has been postponed by the coronavirus outbreak. Promoters Matchroom Boxing and OPI Since 82 announced Monday that their DAZN show scheduled for March 27 at the AGSM Forum in Verona, Italy, has been postponed “due to the recent ban by the Italian government of all sports events until April