7:20 AM ET Kyle Boyd was a high school history teacher who had recently relocated to Seattle because his wife got a new job. He grew up playing hockey, and one weekend last year, decided to go skating because he missed it. He drove 45 minutes to a rink in the suburbs for an open
2:54 PM ET Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hall of Fame golfer Mickey Wright, who won 82 LPGA tournaments including 13 majors, died Monday of a heart attack, her attorney said. Wright was 85. Attorney Sonia Pawluc said Wright had been hospitalized in Florida for the last few weeks after being injured in a
Gymnast Simone Biles won her third Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award while Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton and footballer Lionel Messi shared the men’s title. American Biles, 22, won five gold medals in Stuttgart last year to become the most decorated athlete at the World Championships. Briton Hamilton, 35, won his sixth drivers’ title.
5:59 PM GMT It takes an astute individual to know how much to share with others, especially those they don’t know. Do you tell them about yourself, your hopes, your anxieties and your personal life? Or do you keep those things private and leave them to guess and Google their way around you? Trust South
12:22 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Two days after issuing a statement strongly supporting his quarterback, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin appeared on First Take to continue defending Mason Rudolph in the wake of another allegation made by Myles Garrett in an interview with ESPN’s Mina Kimes, and to voice his frustration with the coverage. “The most
8:46 AM ET The 2020 NBA All-Star Weekend is in the books, and the second half of the NBA season is upon us. The teams with the two best records were represented by All-Star captains LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Of the teams without a representative in Chicago, some were taking advantage of much-needed down
10:43 AM ET Much of the sports world will focus its attention on Las Vegas on Saturday night for a heavyweight boxing rematch between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder. Both fighters are undefeated, with their first bout ending in a draw in December 2018. Fury will join Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show on Monday to discuss
3:38 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff KPH Dream Cricket Private Limited, the consortium that owns Kings XI Punjab, has purchased the Caribbean Premier League team St Lucia Zouks. They become the second set of IPL owners to currently run a CPL team, alongside Red Chillies Entertainment, who own both Kolkata Knight Riders and Trinbago Knight Riders.
8:00 AM ET IN EARLY NOVEMBER, with No. 1 LSU invading Tuscaloosa to try to end an eight-game losing streak to No. 3 Alabama, Tommy Tuberville sets out to work the tailgate tents on 4th Street. Tuberville is one of eight candidates for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate seat in the March 3
8:52 AM ET Heavyweight world titlist Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury will meet in a rematch on Saturday, but the fight could become a trilogy, the Briton’s promoter Frank Warren has said. The pair drew on points in their first meeting in December 2018 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, where Fury outboxed
9:15 AM ET Bob Arum, the chairman of Top Rank who has promoted fights for more than 50 years, went into his best presidential State of the Union vocal imitation. “The state of the heavyweight division is strong,” he said. Indeed, boxing’s marquee division is as healthy as it has been in years, with three
7:00 AM ET Last week, Major League Baseball officially announced its rule changes for the 2020 season that we had heard about several months ago. These include the three-batter minimum for relievers (unless the inning ends), longer minimum stays for pitchers on the injured list (from 10 days to 15), a longer minimum option period
6:30 AM ET While the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers might just have finished a thrilling Super Bowl, the NFL is only going to get busier in the weeks to come. The league’s 32 teams are planning their offseason agendas, identifying targets in free agency and beginning to narrow down prospects they’ll want
7:00 AM ET Steve RichardsESPN Major League Baseball will roll out several rule changes for the 2020 season, the most dramatic being the three-batter minimum for pitchers. MLB and the players’ union agreed to the changes in March 2019, so they have been out there for a while, but the league just announced its implementation
Williams have begun their 2020 season with a recognition of the long haul they face before the team can return to competitiveness. Williams finished adrift of the field in 2019, their worst ever season, with a car nearly 1.5 seconds slower than the next slowest on the grid. Deputy team boss Claire Williams said 2020
The cars have been launched and testing is under way. Can Mercedes be stopped or will it be business as usual for world champion Lewis Hamilton? What do you want to know about the new F1 season? Send us your questions and our chief F1 writer Andrew Benson will answer some of the best ones.
8:55 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Faf du Plessis has stepped down as captain of South Africa’s Test and T20I sides with immediate effect. However, the 35-year-old remains fully committed to playing all three formats for the time being. Du Plessis cited a need to give the next generation of leaders within the team a chance
12:52 AM ET CHICAGO — Perhaps no one in recent history cared more about winning the All-Star Game than Kobe Bryant. The format changes and his memory combined to create a game Sunday night at the United Center that would’ve made Bryant proud. Technically, the winner was Team LeBron over Team Giannis 157-155, and charity,