7:00 AM ET YEARS AGO, AFTER a bad hurricane hit Wilmington, North Carolina, Michael Jordan came back to help the recovery effort. Jordan doesn’t go home very often, but he had some friends with him on that trip and wanted to show them where he’d grown up while they were in town. The house, a
7:19 AM ET Now that UFC president Dana White is back in Las Vegas after a frantic three-cards-in-eight-days stretch in Jacksonville, Florida, he said the promotion will turn its attention to the future during a matchmaking meeting on Tuesday. The first order of business likely will be filling up the cards on May 30 and
7:00 AM ET “This sport has a way of making you feel irrelevant while at the same time giving you this sense of entitlement … Chances are if you were once ‘talk of the town,’ that will quickly diminish over time.”— Noah Rubin, Behind The Racquet AS THE CLOCK crept toward midnight and the winds
Formula 1 says it would be unable to hold a British Grand Prix if personnel are not given exemptions from plans to quarantine international travellers. The UK government will “soon” impose a requirement on all arrivals from abroad to self-isolate for 14 days. An F1 spokesman said: “A 14-day quarantine would make it impossible to
10:07 PM ET Former USC quarterback Jack Sears has joined Boise State as a graduate transfer, Broncos coach Bryan Harsin announced Monday. Sears will be immediately eligible with two seasons remaining. He entered the transfer portal last August after finishing No. 4 on the depth chart in USC’s quarterback competition. He remained at USC for
4:54 PM ET The NHL has narrowed its list of potential venues to eight or nine sites that can accommodate “a dozen or so teams in one location” if the league resumes play this summer after pausing because of the coronavirus pandemic, commissioner Gary Bettman said on Monday. According to sources, roughly 15 markets submitted
9:13 PM ET Arizona Diamondbacks center fielder Starling Marte announced Monday on social media that his wife, Noelia, has died of a heart attack. “Today I go through the great pain of making public the unfortunate death of my wife Noelia, due to a heart attack,” Marte wrote in an Instagram post, which included a
5:18 PM ET Associated Press Veteran New Jersey Devils goaltender Cory Schneider said Monday that a growing number of players are concerned the NHL will announce a “drop-dead” deadline for returning to play as the coronavirus pandemic lingers with summer coming up fast. The 34-year-old Schneider said some Devils are apprehensive because the NHL has
10:22 PM ET Many basketball fans enjoy debating who was better between Michael Jordan and LeBron James. But when the Los Angeles Lakers‘ star fantasizes about playing with Jordan, it’s as his teammate, not his adversary. “Me personally, the way I play the game — team first — I feel like my best assets work
7:19 AM IST Allrounder Cameron Green has been termed a “scary” talent by his Western Australia team-mate Ashton Agar. Green, 20, who has been likened to Andrew Flintoff, is tipped as an international star in the making if he can overcome the back problems which prevented him from bowling for much of the 2019-2020 season.
6:24 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — The return of live golf to television brought 2.35 million viewers across all platforms, which NBC Sports says was 16% higher than the final of the Dell Match Play last year. The TaylorMade Driving Relief on Sunday from Seminole Golf Club was shown from 2 p.m. to
7:52 PM ET Undefeated UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov confirmed reports of his father being in critical condition due to COVID-19 on Monday. Speaking on Instagram in Russian, Nurmagomedov, 31, confirmed his father, Abdulmanap, recently underwent heart surgery due to complications stemming from a previous ailment and the coronavirus. He went on to encourage people
1:59 PM ET Break out the shears. Ben Roethlisberger is throwing footballs to teammates again, and following through on his promise to get a haircut and shave to mark the occasion. “I’m not going to shave or cut my hair until I can throw a football again,” a then-clean-shaven Roethlisberger says to the camera. “Throw
5:23 PM ET Associated Press Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said Monday that NASCAR can hold its races at Pocono Raceway in late June if the coronavirus situation improves in the area, though the races might have to go off without fans. Pocono Raceway is in Monroe County, which currently is under Wolf’s strictest pandemic orders,
5:18 PM ET A federal appeals court upheld a ruling Monday that will allow colleges to pay for any education-related expenses for student-athletes in the future. Judge Claudia Wilken decided in March 2019 that the NCAA rules that limit what athletes can receive from their schools violated antitrust law. Wilken limited her ruling to include
4:55 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA’s draft lottery won’t take place Tuesday in Chicago as was originally planned, but whenever it does happen it is likely to look the same as last year, league sources told ESPN. Since play was suspended March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic, teams at the top of the
6:00 AM ET Quarterback Patrick Mahomes was no longer a secret by the time the Kansas City Chiefs got to Denver for a Monday Night Football game against the Broncos in Week 4 in 2018. He had thrown for 896 yards and 13 touchdowns in the first three games of his first full season as
3:47 PM ET One of the distinctive charms of the U.S. Open will be missing from this year’s postponed championship, as local and sectional qualifying for the event has been canceled. The United States Golf Association announced the decision Monday and said that staging the numerous events around the country — with three sectionals held