4:41 PM ET Josie Harris, the former longtime girlfriend of Floyd Mayweather, with whom she has three teenage children, was found dead in her car outside her home in Valencia, California, on Tuesday night. She was 40. Homicide investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to a report and at approximately 10 p.m.
The Players Championship, the first big tournament and the unofficial fifth major of the PGA Tour season, is here. All but three of the top 50 players in the world are competing for a $15 million purse, with Woods being the most notable absentee as he continues to rest his ailing back. Defending champion Rory
3:27 PM ET Associated Press The Fed Cup finals have been postponed indefinitely in response to concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus. The 12-team women’s tennis tournament was set to be played April 14-19 in Budapest, Hungary. The International Tennis Federation said it still hopes to stage the event in 2020, but did
Mar 11, 2020 Heavyweight Oleksandr Usyk, the unbeaten former undisputed cruiserweight world champion, is in a mandatory position to challenge three-belt titleholder Anthony Joshua but has no plans to sit around waiting for that fight, which would not happen until this fall, at the earliest. So while Joshua attends to another mandatory defense against Kubrat
7:13 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Jack Leach will be given his chance to prove he is ready for a Test return in Galle next week, after being named in England’s XI for their final warm-up match, against a Sri Lanka President’s XI, which gets underway in Colombo on Wednesday. Leach has endured a miserable winter
2:06 PM ET Associated Press GEORGETOWN, Ky. — War Emblem, the 2002 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, died Wednesday at age 21. He had been at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center since 2015 after returning from Japan. Officials said the cause of death was believed to be a paddock accident, but exact details weren’t known.
1:01 PM ET The Houston Texans and Johnathan Joseph have mutually agreed that the veteran cornerback will enter free agency, the team announced Wednesday. Joseph, 35, has spent the past nine seasons with the Texans. He had 51 tackles, 13 pass breakups and one interception in 14 games last season. “Johnathan has been a consummate
1:59 PM ET ESPN News Services The Golden State Warriors are planning to play home games without fans for the foreseeable future in observance of the San Francisco Health Office’s order prohibiting events of 1,000 people or more from assembling, a source told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday. The Warriors host the Brooklyn Nets on
12:38 PM ET Famed SMU running back Eric Dickerson, Heisman Trophy winner Eric Crouch and late Alcorn State quarterback Steve McNair headline the 19 players and coaches who made the 2020 College Football Hall of Fame class, announced Wednesday. In all, the 17 first-team All-America players and two coaches were selected from a national ballot
Denmark’s Soren Kragh Andersen took victory in the time trial on stage four of Paris-Nice as Germany’s Max Schachmann extended his overall lead. Kragh Andersen covered the 15.1km course in 18 minutes 51 seconds, holding off Schachmann by six seconds. Fellow Dane Kasper Asgreen finished third in Saint-Amand-Montrond, six seconds further back. Bora-Hansgrohe rider Schachmann
8:04 AM ET During the conference realignment boom of the early-2010s, Conference USA lost half of its membership to the AAC and aimed to replace it with markets over proven commodities. It added programs from near Miami (FAU, FIU), Nashville (MTSU, with WKU not that far away) and Dallas (North Texas), plus startups from Charlotte,
8:42 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Standing in the corner between the fourth and fifth rounds of the Invicta FC Phoenix Series 3 main event on March 6, Abel Briceno thought his fighter, Lisa Verzosa, was in good shape to win the vacant bantamweight title. Then he saw the score. Julija Stoliarenko was up
6:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The perfect New England Patriots free-agent scenario could be summed up in five words: “Hunter Henry, come on down!” Henry, the Los Angeles Chargers‘ top tight end, would help fill the Patriots’ most notable void. The problem with that scenario, however, is the Chargers are expected to make a
8:37 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders Golf’s unofficial fifth major — The Players Championship — begins Thursday at the historic TPC Sawgrass course in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Our experts — ESPN’s Anita Marks and Chris “The Bear” Fallica, Stats & Info’s David Gordon and deputy editor David Bearman — are here to give their
8:35 AM ET The Players Championship is the PGA Tour’s signature event. Even without Tiger Woods, who will sit out this week because of a stiff back, the field remains loaded. There are plenty of good choices for who will win. Can Rory McIlroy become the first player to repeat at The Players? Some of
2:11 PM GMT Cheteshwar Pujara is unlikely to feature in the remainder of the Ranji Trophy final because of back spasms. India’s Test No. 3 felt some stiffness in his back prior to taking the field on Wednesday, the third day of the ongoing final against Bengal, in Rajkot. He eventually didn’t take the field
9:20 AM ET The Boston Bruins entered Tuesday night with the lead in the Atlantic Division, Eastern Conference and entire NHL. They’re pretty great! They exited Tuesday night as the first team to reach 100 points in the standings this season, and they did so with a thorough victory over the Philadelphia Flyers, a team
We all need some downtime from work. But how do you unwind when you’re a six-time Formula 1 champion and one of the most famous people in the world? Lewis Hamilton is gearing up for possibly the biggest season of his career in 2020. The Mercedes man can equal Michael Schumacher’s record of seven world