Apr 4, 2020 With the English domestic season in great danger of being completely lost, the impact will be felt well beyond the UK’s borders. Several Pakistani cricketers rely on the English season for their livelihood, playing league cricket there and coaching for various clubs in England. A cancellation will hurt them financially. More than
12:35 PM ET The word from the White House was that the president wanted baseball and other professional sports to resume to help keep the country moving forward, to provide at least a few minutes a day for a devastated nation to think about something other than the consuming horrors and death toll. In the
5:53 PM ET The NBA and ESPN are working on televising a H-O-R-S-E competition involving several high-profile players, sources told ESPN. Discussions have been ongoing among the NBA, NBPA and ESPN about a competition among several players in isolation — presumably using home gyms — that would include them competing shot for shot in the
9:00 AM ET The Yankees, Dodgers, Athletics and Cardinals have combined to win 53 World Series, so it feels right that all four franchises have been knocked out of a tournament all about second chances as we begin our 32-team sim tourney of the best squad from every franchise to never win it all. It
3:13 PM ET Major League Baseball teams can now contact amateur prospects using electronic communication and gather data and video on players, but they remain barred from attending in-person activities and holding tryouts as they prepare for the 2020 draft and international signing period, according to a memo obtained by ESPN. The memo, sent to
3:41 PM ET Associated Press Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander says he will donate his weekly paycheck during the coronavirus shutdown to organizations that are helping with relief efforts. Verlander and wife Kate Upton made the announcement Saturday in an Instagram post. The couple said it would pick an organization each week and highlight its
2:53 PM ET Adam Schefter Close ESPN Senior Writer ESPN NFL Insider Joined ESPN in 2009 Former president of the Pro Football Writers of America and the author of four books Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 In a conference call with major league sports commissioners
7:04 AM ET When everything was still seemingly right with the world, in the days before sports were put on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic and the Masters Tournament was postponed, Ben Crenshaw was at Augusta National taking it all in. It was roughly a month ago. He had been invited to the club
12:52 PM ET High-level officials from multiple NFL teams are now preparing to do the April 23-25 draft virtually, from home, away from their team facilities, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a leaguewide memo on March 26 that it was “unanimous and unequivocal that the Draft
1:14 PM ET UFC light heavyweight Dominick Reyes says he was in preliminary talks with the promotion about a rematch against Jon Jones, before the the impact of the coronavirus hit the UFC. Reyes (12-1) suffered the first defeat of his career earlier this year, as he dropped a controversial decision to Jones in a
Apr 1, 2020 Where does the star-studded 2020 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class rank? Since Tim Duncan announced his retirement in the summer of 2016, joining Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett in concluding their careers after the 2015-16 season, NBA fans have been anticipating the prospect of celebrating three league MVPs being inducted
10:50 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff With the COVID-19 pandemic locking the world down, cricket around the globe has been indefinitely stalled. Among the high-profile ones to be affected is the 13th season of the IPL. Though the chances of the tournament taking place this year is increasingly looking bleak, Kevin Pietersen is hoping for it
9:01 AM ET A Mississippi State football player who criticized Bulldogs coach Mike Leach’s tweet that showed a meme of a woman knitting her husband a noose during self-quarantine entered the NCAA transfer portal on Friday. Defensive lineman Fabien Lovett wrote on Twitter that he had entered the transfer portal and has three years of
6:00 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — New Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Darius Slay doesn’t exactly come off as the bashful type — confidence and swagger drip off him, whether he’s in a conversation or shadowing an opponent’s top receiver — but when he finally had the chance to meet his idol Kobe Bryant, he was at a
1:12 AM ET The NBA 2K Players Tournament started with a bang Friday night on ESPN. No. 16 seed Derrick Jones Jr. upset No. 1 seed Kevin Durant 78-62 to lead off the evening. Jones and Durant faced off in a tense matchup — this time not on the court, but on the sticks —
10:21 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Bryce Harper and New York Mets pitcher Steven Matz are the latest baseball players to make donations to coronavirus relief efforts. Harper and his wife, Kayla, are giving $500,000 to Direct Relief and Three Square in his hometown of Las Vegas and to Philabundance
8:32 PM ET The New York Rangers are investigating how prospect K’Andre Miller’s video chat with fans was “hijacked” by racial slurs directed towards the African-American player. Miller, 20, took part in a video Q&A on Zoom that was limited to 500 participants on Friday afternoon. With about 150 fans streaming the chat, the comments
8:03 AM ET The Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2020 could be one of the most star-studded ever, a group that is expected to include Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett and the late Kobe Bryant. But which active players are on track for basketball immortality? Ahead of Saturday’s announcement of the full class, our NBA