10:00 AM ET Willie Mays was still finding himself as a player when he departed the New York Giants in late May of 1952. There was no doubt he’d already displayed one of the best skill sets anyone had seen on a Major League Baseball field, but he was very much still in the process
7:00 AM ET Ethan Sherwood Strauss Editor’s note: This story on Draymond Green was originally published on Oct. 19, 2016 and contains explicit language. Watch Game 5 of the 2016 NBA Finals on Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN. ALL IN ALL, it was not the best few months for Draymond Green. On June
7:18 AM BST New Zealand Rugby has offered a grant of $[NZ]250,000 to each of the country’s five Super Rugby teams to help them get through the next three months while the game remains suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. The intercontinental Super Rugby competition was shut down after round seven when the New Zealand
7:00 AM ET NFL NationESPN With 2020 NFL free agency winding down, we are looking back on what went down and looking forward to what’s ahead. Maybe you heard some big-name quarterbacks like Tom Brady (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) and Teddy Bridgewater (Carolina Panthers) changed teams. Those weren’t the only huge moves. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak
1:09 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq has called for a “fair and equal” resolution to the World Test Championship when cricket finally resumes even if it means extending the tournament, warning that a shortened competition would fail to give a “true picture” of the standings. With cricket, like nearly all major sports
Silverstone and Formula 1 say they have until the end of April to decide whether the British Grand Prix can be held as planned on 17-19 July. The global coronavirus crisis has already forced the first eight F1 races of the season to be called off. Silverstone is among the next group under threat. A
10:42 PM ET Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart, who announced Monday that he is clear of COVID-19 after testing positive two weeks ago, confirmed Tuesday night that he plans to donate blood so it can be studied with the hope of finding a treatment for the coronavirus. Michael Joyner, an anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic,
3:18 AM GMT Australia Test captain Tim Paine believes the behavioural changes forced upon the national team by the Newlands scandal have flowed down into the rest of the system over the course of the past two years, with incidents involving James Pattinson and Marcus Stoinis last summer the exceptions that prove the new rule.
9:43 PM ET Associated Press Gronk is coming to iRacing. Rob Gronkowski and WWE star Mojo Rawley are set to serve as the grand marshals for the NASCAR virtual racing event on Sunday. Gronkowski, the retired New England Patriots tight end, also is scheduled to host WrestleMania. WrestleMania, WWE’s signature event, is held over two
9:55 PM ET Associated Press San Jose Sharks president Jonathan Becher said Tuesday the team made the best decision with the information at the time when it played three home games following a recommendation by the county against large gatherings in early March. Santa Clara County issued a recommendation on March 5 that mass gatherings
8:20 AM ET WORD SPREAD QUICKLY among the Toronto Raptors: Did you hear? Gobert has it. Donovan Mitchell too. See? Right here on Twitter. The defending NBA champions quickly realized what was coming: Their final basketball game came just two days earlier, on March 9 against the Utah Jazz. They would be quarantined. But what
8:50 PM ET New Mississippi State coach Mike Leach landed one of his first big commitments Tuesday when ESPN Junior 300 quarterback Sawyer Robertson chose the Bulldogs. Robertson is a 6-foot-3, 185-pound quarterback out of Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas, and is one of the top pocket-passing quarterbacks in the class. Ranked No. 51
7:16 AM ET What a difference a day makes. If you would have asked MMA fans on, say, Sunday if they still wanted to see the Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson fight happen on April 18, I’m certain the majority would have answered with a resounding yes. However, now that it appears as though Nurmagomedov
7:33 PM ET Associated Press BALTIMORE — Following three straight frustrating seasons that led him to consider retirement, Chris Davis was in the midst of an outstanding spring training when Major League Baseball came to a halt because of the deadly coronavirus. Now, as the slugger strives to find ways to keep his three daughters
6:52 PM ET UFC champion Jon Jones agreed to plead guilty to DWI (second offense) on Tuesday and will not face any jail time if he follows the terms of a plea agreement, according to a spokesperson for the Bernalillo County, New Mexico, district attorney’s office. Jones was arrested on four charges last Thursday in
7:42 AM ET Who are the best basketball prospects our NBA experts have ever seen? Inspired by ESPN’s MLB team, we asked an ESPN panel about watching some of the league’s standout players before they made it big. The only rule: You had to see the prospect play in person before his first NBA game.
7:30 AM ET Every year, before the NHL preseason and again before the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Alex Ovechkin‘s longtime trainer, Pavel Burlachenko, flies in from Russia to work with the Washington Capitals‘ captain at his home gym in Northern Virginia. Burlachenko arrived in the U.S. shortly before the NHL paused its season due to the
5:49 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Another Kentucky Derby prep is off — for now. The Santa Anita Derby, the West Coast’s major prep for the Kentucky Derby, was to be run Saturday. However, it will be postponed until later in the season while Santa Anita remains closed for live racing during the