4:59 PM ET Italian golfers Lorenzo Gagli and Edoardo Molinari have been reinstated in the Oman Open after the pair had withdrawn from the tournament on Wednesday amid concerns that they had coronavirus. Gagli and Molinari, who have been sharing a hotel room in Oman, were subject to concerns that they had coronavirus after Gagli
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3:51 PM ET New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton might miss the start of the season because of a strained calf. Yankees manager Aaron Boone announced Wednesday that Stanton has a Grade 1 strain in his right calf and will be out “a couple weeks.” 1 Related The Yankees open their season March 26 against
Great Britain’s Laura Kenny misses out on a medal in the women’s scratch race by the finest of margins at the Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin. “I was going full gas and fourth is the worst place you can finish,” Kenny told BBC Four. Watch live coverage of the Track Cycling World Championships on
7:00 AM ET The 2020 NHL trade deadline was one of the season’s biggest mysteries. There weren’t many obvious sellers, and the standings were so tightly packed that even the Buffalo Sabres — who have a 2.8% chance of making the playoffs, per Money Puck — considered themselves in the hunt. There weren’t the same
8:00 AM ET Reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo helped the Milwaukee Bucks clinch the earliest NBA playoff berth in 15 seasons on Sunday. Meanwhile, LeBron James has the Los Angeles Lakers at the top of the Western Conference, but is that enough to stop Antetokounmpo from repeating as MVP? Will Zion Williamson make an All-NBA team
8:00 AM ET Rachel MarcusESPN Editor Close ESPN Editor Joined ESPN in 2013 Maryland native, Syracuse graduate The monocle almost didn’t make it to Justin Meekins’ picture day. Meekins, a senior outfielder at Salisbury University in Maryland who bears a strong resemblance to former MLB outfielder Jayson Werth, needed that monocle from Amazon Prime. It
2:48 PM GMT Ireland’s Six Nations fixture against Italy in Dublin has been postponed until further notice due to the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has announced. The match at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin — originally scheduled for March 7 — has been postponed, and the IRFU has
2:34 PM ET Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Peter Laviolette is returning to the bench after being selected as the coach of the United States men’s national team competing at the world hockey championships in May. The move was announced by USA Hockey on Wednesday, and comes seven weeks after Laviolette was fired by
The Vietnam and Bahrain Grand Prix races will go ahead as planned despite continuing concerns about coronavirus, Formula 1 says. Chief executive Chase Carey said “all systems are go” for the race in Hanoi. “The Vietnam Grand Prix will take place on 5 April in Hanoi. And to anticipate another question, we do plan to
1:48 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer Maria Sharapova looked tired when she walked into the media room after her first-round loss at the Australian Open last month. Tired of losing, and tired of the questions that inevitably followed. It was her third straight loss in the opening round at a major. But despite the evidence
12:50 PM ET Khabib Nurmagomedov has made no secret of his lack of desire to fight Conor McGregor again. In an interview with TMZ on Wednesday, the UFC lightweight champion doubled down. Nurmagomedov said fans only want a rematch between him and McGregor to see a continuation of “what happened last time.” In the lead-up
8:00 AM ET The college football offseason is largely about looking ahead, to both the near and the distant future. The future power rankings cover both. Everyone’s favorite ESPN+ offseason franchise is back, beginning with the quarterback position. In the coming weeks and months, I’ll examine offenses, defenses and overall team projections for the next
Ferrari will start the season behind rivals Mercedes, team boss Mattia Binotto said as Formula 1’s final pre-season test started in Spain. “We believe we are not the fastest car at the moment and we believe in lap times we will behind at the start of the season,” Binotto said on Wednesday. Binotto said Mercedes
1:29 PM ET Petra Kvitova needed all her considerable experience to beat Latvian Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 and reach the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open on a windy Wednesday in Doha. The No. 8 seed, who won the Qatar title in 2018, looked on course for a routine victory after running away with the
4:13 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Stuart Broad has committed to Nottinghamshire until 2022 at least, after signing a new two-year contract. Broad, 33, is second behind James Anderson among England’s leading Test wicket-takers with 485 scalps to his name, and is set to play his 13th and 14th seasons at Trent Bridge, the venue where
11:20 AM ET The New York Giants have released linebacker Alec Ogletree, a team captain during his two seasons with the team. The team also said it had cut linebacker Kareem Martin. Ogletree, one of the league’s highest-paid inside linebackers over the past two years at $10 million per season, became a liability in pass
10:30 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 Rival British promoters Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn have not given up hope of matching Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua for all four world
8:51 AM ET CONFUSION REIGNS AS the Utah Jazz jog back on defense. Mike Conley is scurrying across the floor in search of someone to guard. It is Monday night in Salt Lake City, and the Phoenix Suns are pushing the ball up the floor after a routine defensive rebound early in the fourth quarter.