Apr 8, 2020 Mike ClayESPN Writer Close Fantasy football, NFL analyst for ESPN.com Member of Pro Football Writers of America Founding director of Pro Football Focus Fantasy 2013 FSTA award winner for most accurate preseason rankings The bulk of NFL free agency is in the rearview mirror, which means we have a much better feel
9:17 AM ET For the next few months, there won’t be any boxing as the coronavirus pandemic has essentially brought this once non-stop sport to a halt. During this lull in the action, Dan Rafael takes a look at the bantamweight and junior bantamweight divisions. Bantamweight What’s the biggest question you have about this division?
Formula 1 bosses ended their crisis meeting on Monday with an agreement to look further into the issues around lowering a budget cap. Teams had already agreed to reduce the original $175m (£142m) cap in 2021 to $150m (£122m) as a result of financial problems caused for F1 by coronavirus. But at the meeting, the
3:45 PM BST The European Champions Cup could be replaced with a Club World Cup featuring teams around the world, French Rugby Federation president Bernard Laporte has said. Laporte, who is aiming to become World Rugby vice-chairman next month, has said he plans to develop a six-week club competition to be held every year, featuring
9:25 AM ET Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on June 13, 2007. MOST EVERYTHING MAKES me think about my Daddy, and this morning, of all the stupid reasons to fight back tears in public, it’s chipped beef on toast. I’m sitting at the corner table on the clubhouse veranda, waiting for Arnold Palmer
7:00 AM ET While social distancing, when we’re not video conferencing with work (nice bookshelf, Bob!) or trying to figure out when third-grade math got so hard, we’re cooking. Celebrity chefs are offering shopping advice on what you need in your pantry. Everybody on Twitter and Instagram is making bread. Disney even gave out its
1:21 PM ET Antonio Brown has hired veteran agent Ed Wasielewski of EMG Sports to represent him in his continued desire to return to the NFL this season, the agent told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday. Brown, a seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver, is a free agent who wasn’t on an active roster for most
7:00 AM ET NFL NationESPN You don’t have to play at a traditional college football power to achieve NFL stardom. Former Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton showed us that. San Francisco 49ers receiver Jerry Rice showed us, too. So did the other 30 names on our small-school studs list picked by NFL Nation reporters.
7:15 AM ET After an elite eight marked by one if-it-were-real historic comeback, we’re down to the two LCS matchups. While we’ll let you discover the identity of the four remaining teams by reading on, it seems to be a quartet of survivors appropriate to the theme of this tournament. All four were very good,
7:00 AM ET As we advance into the later rounds of our Second-Chance World Series, things are taking on a 1990s flavor, with half of our survivors coming from the decade of grunge, Michael Jordan and backward ball caps. It’s probably just a coincidence. But one thing we do know is that in this era
12:36 PM ET The coronavirus pandemic that shut down sports and altered everyday life across the world has dramatically shifted the golf calendar. Some events have been postponed, others outright canceled. On Monday, which would have been the start of Masters week at Augusta National Golf Club, all of the sport’s governing bodies unveiled a
4:01 PM GMT Big picture It has become a bit of a trend to have one of the showpieces matches of the World Cup around one month into the tournament. From a logistics and broadcasting point of view it makes sense: either India v Pakistan injects new life into a tournament that might be flagging
Williams have put a number of staff on furlough and given their drivers and senior management a pay cut as a result of the coronavirus crisis. Their move follows a similar step by McLaren last week. Williams said in a statement that “a number of employees” would be out on enforced leave until the end
10:10 AM BST Associated Press The Fiji Rugby Union has criticized two of its top professional players who have been arrested for failing to self-isolate after returning to Fiji from overseas. Fiji media named one of the players as backrower Semi Kunatani who plays for the London-based club Harlequins. He was a member of the
10:04 AM ET Kentucky freshman Tyrese Maxey declared for the 2020 NBA draft on Monday. “My thoughts were that we would be playing for a national championship [today],” Maxey told ESPN. “Although we’re unable to do that due to what our country is experiencing, I felt like this was the day to declare for the
10:17 AM ET The 149th Open Championship, scheduled for July 16-19, was canceled Monday due to the coronavirus pandemic. The R&A confirmed the decision and said the tournament, which was to be played at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, England, will move to that location in 2021. Further details were to be released. “I can
2:44 PM GMT Dane Paterson, the seamer who made his Test debut for South Africa in the 2019-20 summer, has ended his career in his home country and intends to play professionally in England from this season. Paterson could be left in limbo, however, after an interview to confirm his Kolpak deal with Nottinghamshire, scheduled
2:16 PM ET The IBF’s mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev said he will donate half of his purse from the world heavyweight title fight against Briton Anthony Joshua to help medical workers fight the “devilish” coronavirus. The 38-year-old Bulgarian is expected to earn around $5 million from the fight, which has been postponed due to the