12:00 PM GMT Umar Akmal‘s troubled cricket career has hit its biggest roadblock yet, with the PCB handing him a ban from all representative cricket for three years after he pleaded guilty to failing to report details of corrupt approaches made to him ahead of this year’s PSL. Akmal’s case had gone directly to the
11:08 AM ET Associated Press A group of professional tennis players led by Dustin Brown will meet in a series of exhibition tournaments in Germany starting Friday. The live-streamed event will take place at an academy near the small town of Hohr-Grenzhausen. The men’s and women’s professional tours are currently suspended until July because of
11:58 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former NASCAR champion Matt Kenseth will again come out of retirement to compete for Chip Ganassi Racing as the replacement for fired driver Kyle Larson. Larson lost his job two weeks ago after using a racial slur during a live-streamed virtual race. Although Ganassi development driver Ross
8:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” The World Series begins with only one promise: It will produce a winner. It won’t assure us a compelling story, though it does often deliver. It won’t guarantee seven nights of entertainment,
8:00 AM ET Nick DePaulaESPN “It’s gotta be the shoes.” For many basketball fans in the 1990s, that wasn’t just a line said by Spike Lee’s Mars Blackmon character in a commercial, it was a way of life. Michael Jordan helped turn basketball sneakers into a multibillion dollar industry. Episode 5 of “The Last Dance”
Britain’s Lewis Hamilton says the lack of racing in Formula 1 so far this year has left him feeling “a big void”. The Mercedes driver, who will bid to equal the record of seven world titles if the championship can be started, says he “misses racing every day”. “This is the first time since I
8:59 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer The ATP and WTA tours are currently suspended due to the global coronavirus pandemic, but that doesn’t mean you can’t see your favorite tennis players working on their skills. Thanks to the wonder of the internet, stars like Roger Federer and Andy Murray have started their own viral challenges,
8:06 AM ET Finding ways to stay busy amid the coronavirus pandemic is part of the challenge for professional golfers across the country, especially given the restrictions at various golf courses, gyms and workout facilities given various closures and limitations. Not so much for Pat Perez. The veteran PGA Tour player, who like a majority
5:20 AM ET World No. 3 Dominic Thiem has rejected the notion that the top tennis players should chip in to help lower-ranked competitors who are struggling financially due to the pause in tournaments because of the coronavirus pandemic. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic last week urged players to contribute to a fund set up
Formula 1 has laid out its ambition to start up the season in early July, by which time it hopes the coronavirus crisis will be sufficiently under control for the sport to go racing, albeit under significant restrictions. F1 boss Chase Carey hopes to complete a season of at least 16 races in a year
9:19 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff In order to avoid the dangers of rubbing saliva on the ball in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, cricket is deliberating the use of an agreed artificial substance like wax or shoe polish under the supervision of the umpire to facilitate swing bowling. Effectively it is ball tampering under the
Formula 1 boss Chase Carey says he plans to start the season in Austria in July, after France became the latest country to call off its race. French GP organisers said on Monday their race at Paul Ricard on 28 June was off as a result of the country’s ban on major events until mid-July.
1:08 AM ET Rafael Nadal is very pessimistic about the possibility of tennis returning to normal any time soon because of the coronavirus pandemic that shut down the sport last month. Professional tennis has been suspended until the end of July, at the earliest, and Nadal said Sunday that serious problems stand in the way
6:36 PM ET ESPN’s 10-part documentary series “The Last Dance,” which chronicles Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, continued on Sunday with Episodes 3 and 4. Jordan and the Bulls allowed NBA Entertainment to follow them throughout the season and document their final championship together. The series features never-before-seen footage, as well as interviews
7:00 AM ET Free agency and the 2020 NFL draft have been completed, and now the league enters into an uncertain hiatus. The NFL deliberately kept both of those activities on their original timelines, but with no way to safely practice social distancing, the league canceled organized team activities, and it could do the same
10:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The MLB season should have turned one month old Sunday. Rather than lament that, let’s instead fill the emptiness with a discussion about when the season will start. Yes, will. Over the
7:00 AM ET It has been 46 days since the NHL hit the pause button on the 2019-20 season. As the cancellations and postponements around the world of sports continue, the 2020 NFL draft was staged virtually this weekend, to mostly positive reviews. Could that be a preview of what’s to come for the NHL?
7:37 AM ET I’ll never forget Jan. 17, 2016. Not so much because of the great TJ Dillashaw vs. Dominick Cruz UFC bantamweight title fight that happened that night in Boston (it was a really great fight and worth watching, if you’ve never seen it before), but because of what Cruz said to me after