12:10 PM ET Duke football coach David Cutcliffe said he remains “very optimistic” there will be college football this season, but he doubts it will look much like a normal season due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. “It’s going to be disrupted,” Cutcliffe said on a Zoom call Friday. “I don’t know if we’ll get
9:12 AM ET The Champions League is back, but not as we know it. With 12 teams, 11 games and a World Cup-style last eight, it will take seven straight knock-out ties in the space of 12 days at two venues in Lisbon, Portugal, to decide who will be crowned European champions. With the COVID-19
9:30 AM ET The All England Club, which hosts Wimbledon, announced Friday that it will pay prize money to all players who would have qualified for the canceled tournament. Pulling from a pot of £10 million ($12.6 million), the organization will distribute prize money to the “620 players whose world ranking would have enabled them
6:45 AM ET Brian Windhorst Close ESPN Senior Writer ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Tim Bontemps Over the past three months, the NBA’s league office has exhausted itself in stitching together a comprehensive plan to conclude the 2019-20 season. In the front offices of the
10:21 AM ET A welterweight title fight between champion Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal was the July big-show main event that the UFC wanted all along. It took a bit of a meandering route to get there, but now the blockbuster matchup is finally official. Usman and Masvidal both weighed in successfully at 170 pounds
8:30 PM IST Danyal Rasool Saleem Malik‘s ongoing quest to be reintegrated into Pakistan cricket has been pushed back once again by the PCB. The board believes Malik hasn’t again responded satisfactorily to the contents of a conversation 20 years ago in which he talked about fixing cricket matches. While Malik insists he had submitted
7:00 AM ET The process of changing a team name isn’t a simple one, as the Washington Redskins are about to discover. That is, if they indeed change their name as is widely expected. Two things are known: ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that there will be no Native American imagery; as one team source said
8:58 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After being at home for several months because of the global coronavirus pandemic, Sofia Kenin was more than eager to return to competition. So when the opportunity arose to play World TeamTennis this summer, she jumped at the chance. It was only after she agreed to participate that she realized
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen headed Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas in second practice at the Styrian Grand Prix. The Dutchman pipped Bottas by just 0.043 seconds, with the Racing Points of Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll third and fourth. Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo had a heavy crash at Turn Nine early in the session, and limped away from
8:28 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Sparta, Kentucky, on Sunday for the Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart. ESPN Fantasy’s Mike Clay hit on Kevin Harvick to win last Sunday’s Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400. Who will take the checkered flag Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET) at Kentucky Speedway? Clay
7:33 AM ET Pro-tennis player Dayana Yastremska has defended pictures she posted on social media of her doing blackface as “misunderstood.” The World No. 25 ranked player posted four photos of herself with half her body painted black and a caption which read “Equality.” Following criticism, Yastremska deleted the pictures and posted an explanation on
Charles Leclerc has been given an official warning after breaking Formula 1’s coronavirus protocols. The Ferrari driver returned to Monaco this week between the Austrian and Styrian Grands Prix at the Red Bull Ring and was pictured with friends. Personnel are required to remain within their ‘bubbles’ between races. An FIA spokesperson said that Ferrari
Formula 1 has added two more races to its 2020 calendar as it seeks to rebuild the season during the coronavirus crisis. Italy’s Mugello will stage its debut Grand Prix on 13 September, with the Russian GP in Sochi on 27 September. The two additions take the total number of races confirmed so far to
11:56 PM ET Montreal Impact head coach and France legend Thierry Henry took a knee for the first eight minutes and 46 seconds of his team’s MLS is Back Tournament opener against the New England Revolution on Thursday in memory of George Floyd, who was killed in police custody in Minnesota in May, causing mass
1:48 AM ET Xfinity Series driver Justin Allgaier was transported to a hospital for evaluation after being involved in a last-lap crash during Thursday night’s Xfinity Series race at Kentucky Speedway. Allgaier’s JR Motorsports Chevrolet had contact with Ronnie Bassett Jr.‘s Chevy, with Bassett making hard contact with the inside wall that lifted his car
Jul 9, 2020 Steve KimESPN Junior featherweight contender Carlos Castro dispatched the normally durable Cesar Juarez with an impressive fourth-round TKO victory in the co-main event on the Carlos Takam-Jerry Forrest undercard inside the Top Rank “bubble” at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas on Thursday. From the very beginning Castro was simply
12:57 AM ET Just over three weeks after testing positive for the coronavirus, WBO junior lightweight world titlist Jamel Herring is feeling ready enough to put his belt on the line on Tuesday, July 14, against Jonathan Oquendo (8 p.m. ET, ESPN) — even in the face of his team suggesting he should reconsider his
12:12 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Fast bowlers are widely known to use three different methods to get the ball to swerve through the air: conventional swing, contrast swing, reverse swing. James Anderson, however, can lay claim to a fourth method: reverse reverse swing. What’s that? According to no less an authority than Sachin Tendulkar, who