12:02 PM ET ESPN staff MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL’S plan to start the season by July 4 relies on a dizzying array of moving parts, including the cooperation of 27 U.S. cities and a foreign country, the availability of more than 200,000 reliable coronavirus tests and a promise not to interfere with the nationwide fight to
8:18 PM ET The Big 12 conference doesn’t have a date yet for its sports to resume, but commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Tuesday the league needs to be “up and running” by mid-July if the college football season is going to start on time. “If we’re not, we’re looking at probably having to delay the
6:20 PM ET Steve KimESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez want to next fight each other in a high-stakes lightweight unification bout, Top Rank’s Bob Arum told ESPN on Tuesday after talking to both camps. “In talking with Lomachenko and Lopez, neither of them want an interim fight,” Arum said. “So we would plan to
4:33 PM ET Former Chicago Bulls forward Horace Grant has fired back at claims Michael Jordan made about him during “The Last Dance” documentary series on ESPN. In a radio interview with Kap and Co. on ESPN 1000 in Chicago on Tuesday, Grant said it “is a downright, outright, completely lie” that he leaked much
5:09 PM ET As it plans for what it hopes is a full 2020 season, the NFL has acknowledged the inevitability that a number of its personnel will be infected by the coronavirus. Sustaining the season throughout the fall will require the effective use of testing and isolating procedures currently under development. “We fully well
12:46 PM ET Justin Gaethje has moved up to No. 2, right behind Khabib Nurmagomedov. That rise in the ESPN lightweight division rankings, prompted by Gaethje’s May 9 TKO victory over the previously second-ranked Tony Ferguson, sets up a forthcoming matchup between the champ, Nurmagomedov, and the new interim champ, Gaethje, on a date still
3:44 PM ET Associated Press South Carolina‘s highest paid head coaches are taking 10% salary cuts amid the coronavirus pandemic. Football coach Will Muschamp, men’s basketball coach Frank Martin and women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley are taking the cuts. The university also said Tuesday that school president Robert Caslen and athletic director Ray Tanner are
8:00 AM ET The 10-minute walk to Sajik Stadium is a lot quieter these days. Typically, whether it’s Sajik Stadium in Busan or Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, Kerry Maher, an American from Waycross, Georgia, gets stopped by his fellow fans at Korea Baseball Organization games, where he’s known by three different nicknames: “Santa Grandfather,” “Lotte
11:36 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN LOS ANGELES — When the lifeguard arrived, between 50 and 75 yards off Venice Beach, the boy and his father were caught in the rip current, enveloped in what’s called an “impact zone.” “The best way I can describe it,” said Kenichi Haskett, Section Chief of the LA County Fire
11:31 AM ET The Belmont Stakes will take place “in the month of June” and be shortened from its traditional length of 1 1/2 miles, Michael Dubb, a member of the New York Racing Association’s board of director says. Dubb made the announcement on ESPN Audio’s “In The Gate” podcast, which is likely to be
10:22 PM IST Umar Akmal has filed an official appeal against the three-year ban imposed on him by the PCB, challenging the length of the sanction and hoping to get it reduced. Akmal was expelled from all representative cricket after he he failed to report details of corrupt approaches made to him ahead of this
10:40 AM ET The UFC has a May 30 main event, and it features a former champion. The promotion has scheduled Tyron Woodley, who reigned as welterweight champ from 2016 to 2019, to fight Gilbert Burns in the headline bout of UFC’s next scheduled card, Burns confirmed on Twitter on Tuesday. Bout agreement is signed!
9:03 PM IST Valkerie Baynes A charity which provides mental health services to professional cricketers past and present faces a £250,000 funding shortfall because of the Covid-19 lockdown. As with many charities, the ban on mass public gatherings has forced the cancellation of most fundraising events for the Professional Cricketers’ Trust, the charity arm of
8:51 AM ET Kevin Matz The NASCAR Cup Series heads back to Darlington Raceway on Wednesday (7:30 p.m. ET), just three days after Kevin Harvick found victory at that very track. The rare weekday race will see an altered format that includes no practice or qualifying and a starting grid determined by inverting the top
7:00 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. Before baseball shut down for the coronavirus pandemic, the news that ace Chris Sale had elbow trouble had already cast a pall over spring training for the Boston Red Sox. In the wake of the shutdown, he and the
7:30 AM ET The NHL draft by its very nature is all about comparison. How one player compares to another ultimately decides a team’s draft board. And in the 2020 NHL draft, the gap between the top two prospects and the rest of the class is fairly substantial. Alexis Lafreniere and Quinton Byfield project favorably
8:19 AM ET DeVante’s Parker’s answer to an Instagram poll Monday night set off Michael Thomas and started a war of words between the wide receivers. The NFL on Fox’s Instagram account asked, “Which is tougher? A. Make a catch while guarded by Stephon Gilmore” or “B. Break up a pass while guarding Michael Thomas.”
8:00 AM ET The right head coach can change a program’s trajectory, and so can the right coordinator. Just ask national champion LSU, which got over the hump last season after reshaping its passing game under innovative assistant Joe Brady. Ed Orgeron’s brilliant hire of Brady, a little-known, 29-year-old offensive assistant for the New Orleans