10:45 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Irfan Pathan burst onto the international scene as a teenager full of promise, swing and runs, but played his last international match just before turning 28, in October 2012. Pathan, who retired from the game only in January this year, finished with 29 Tests, 120 ODIs and 24 T20Is. He
8:00 AM ET The 2020 college football season has already been the strangest and most unique season since the end of World War II, and it hasn’t even officially begun yet. The threat of the coronavirus brought a stop to all spring practices in March, and teams have only recently begun to resume voluntary workouts
11:50 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter tweeted Friday morning that his father had been released from prison in his native Turkey seven years after he was originally arrested by the country’s authoritarian government. “Wow! I could cry,” Kanter wrote. “Today I found out that 7 years after arresting my dad, taking
11:32 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Tennis authorities suspended Venezuelan referee Armando Belardi for two years and six months on Friday for not reporting approaches to him to alter match scores. Belardi was approached twice in 2018 by unidentified parties, the Tennis Integrity Unit said. The investigation found that Belardi did not alter the
7:41 AM ET Officially, the UFC has five title fights on its upcoming schedule — four of them featuring a fighter coming off a loss in his most recent fight. Now, the four matchups are easy to explain. Heavyweight Daniel Cormier lost to Stipe Miocic last year, and the two need to finish their rivalry.
10:46 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Talladega, Alabama, on Sunday for the Geico 500. Denny Hamlin raced to his third victory of the season and 40th overall with his win last Sunday at Homestead, his record-tying third NASCAR Cup Series victory at the track. Who will take the checkered
Daniel Ricciardo says leaving Renault to join McLaren next season was “by no means an easy decision”. Ricciardo told the F1 podcast that his move was “not as clear” as his decision to leave Red Bull for Renault in 2018. “Without any races, you have to believe. It’s what pitch excites you more than the
Lewis Hamilton will have a faster car for the first race of the delayed Formula 1 season as a result of a number of upgraded parts. Hamilton has not driven the 2020 car since the end of testing in February. Mercedes technical director James Allison said they worked on getting developments designed in January, February
2:14 AM ET The 152nd Belmont Stakes will take place on Saturday in New York. Normally, the final race of the Triple Crown, it will be the first this year and will take place without spectators. ESPN’s Chris Fallica gives us his best bets for the Triple Crown race, along with his thoughts on the
7:00 AM ET There have been 255 father-son combos in major league history, according to research by Elias Sports Bureau. There is no father and son pair in which both members are in the Hall of Fame (14 fathers are in, but just two sons, Roberto Alomar and Ken Griffey Jr.). Bobby and Barry Bonds
Play 02:22 I’d love England-Ireland ODIs to go ahead – Paul Stirling Ireland have appointed Paul Stirling as vice-captain, providing support to Andy Balbirnie after he took charge across all formats last year. Stirling is one of Ireland’s most-experienced players, capped 117 times in ODIs and 78 times in T20Is, as well as playing all
3:38 AM ET Welcome to ESPN’s Insider Notebook, featuring contributions from our reporters across the top leagues around the world. In this edition, there’s a frantic contract scramble brewing in the Premier League. Plus: The secret behind Mikel Arteta’s fabulous hair. Jump to: United not giving up on Bellingham | Arteta’s hair secret | Messi’s
6:59 AM ET NFL NationESPN The start of a new decade is upon us with the 2020 NFL season. But before we get rolling with the ’20s, ESPN is taking a look back at the best — and worst — of the 2010s and naming the top players of the decade for all 32 teams.
12:27 AM ET Weeks after the team issued a statement condemning “racism, bigotry, violence and prejudice in all its forms” the Los Angeles Lakers announced a pair of moves to aid in their mission to spur positive social change. The Lakers announced the hiring of Karida Brown as the team’s director of racial equity and
11:54 PM ET Steve Kim Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate While Thursday night’s Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card lost its main event on the day the bout was scheduled to take place, the show must
12:08 AM BST LONDON — The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is conducting a review into the singing of ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ by England fans, as many are unaware of the song’s links with American slavery, the domestic governing body said on Thursday. The anthem, believed to have been written by a slave in the
9:17 PM ET Albert Pujols is giving back to his team and his native Dominican Republic. According to the Los Angeles Times, the veteran Angels slugger is covering $180,000 in salary lost by staff members of the team in the Dominican who were furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The gesture will cover about five
8:25 PM ET SEC commissioner Greg Sankey threatened not to host any future conference championship events in Mississippi until the state changes its flag. Mississippi is the only state that has the Confederate symbol — a blue cross with the 13 stars — still on its flag. “It is past time for change to be