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” In the hours leading up to their scheduled game Wednesday night, some members of the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants saw an opportunity. Already Aug. 26, 2020, had registered as
7:46 AM BST There is no-one more deserving of a salary-boosting six-month stint in Japanese rugby than Michael Hooper. The incumbent Wallabies captain has, for more than a decade, thrown himself into breakdown after breakdown, defensive line after defensive line, with little regard for his body. He has won countless key turnovers and scored the
World champion Lewis Hamilton “stands with” US sports stars boycotting events to fight racism but does not think his missing a race would have an effect. Basketball, baseball and football games have been postponed in the US after police shot Jacob Blake, a black man, seven times in the back on Sunday. Hamilton said: “It’s
Aug 23, 2020 What do you get if you plonk 10 UFC fighters together in the same room? Now, imagine what happens if they begin living together 24/7 and are in the midst of a fight camp. This is not a riddle. Since the New Zealand city of Auckland returned to Stage 3 lockdown restrictions
9:56 AM ET Georgia receiver Dominick Blaylock, one of the team’s top wideouts last season, suffered a torn ACL in his left knee in practice this week and will miss the upcoming season, sources confirmed to ESPN. Blaylock, a sophomore from Marietta, Georgia, suffered the same injury to the same knee in the first quarter
8:43 AM ET CINCINNATI – The father of Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Mackensie Alexander has been found alive in Florida, according to officials. Jean Odney Alexandre, 65, was found Thursday morning after he walked up to a ranger station in Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, according to the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office. Alexandre (the two men
1:51 AM ET For the last six years, the NBA has bathed in the congratulatory spirit of compromise, the model for commissioner-player communication. In ousting the racist former LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling, both the players and the league could claim satisfaction. The player voice was heard so powerfully that for the first time in
7:52 AM ET ESPN News Services Profilic tennis doubles partners Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan are retiring from the sport ahead of the US Open, they told The New York Times on Wednesday. The decision closes a professional tennis partnership that includes a men’s doubles record of 16 Grand Slam championships. “We just both feel
8:46 AM ET Steve KimESPN Even though he hasn’t been in the classroom for the past several months, the summer has been anything but a vacation for bantamweight hopeful Gabriel Muratalla (4-0, 3 KOs). The preschool teacher has found a moment in the spotlight, capturing the sport’s attention with his past two performances inside the
Sir Dave Brailsford says his relationship with Chris Froome is “as good as ever” despite leaving him out of Team Ineos’ Tour de France squad. The rescheduled Tour begins on Saturday in Nice and runs until 20 September. “We have given Chris a bit longer to continue his recovery,” team principal Brailsford told BBC Breakfast.
5:38 PM ET The Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds agreed to not play their game Wednesday night at Miller Park in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. And the Seattle Mariners will not play Wednesday night’s game against the host San Diego Padres after Mariners players agreed to postpone it. In
5:53 PM IST England opener Jason Roy is understood to have opted out of the 2020 IPL. Roy, who represents Delhi Capitals, ESPNcricinfo has learned, will be replaced by Australian left-arm fast bowler Daniel Sams. The development came on the back of ECB announcing on Thursday that Roy had been ruled out of the T20I
6:55 AM ET The NHL always wants the sports spotlight shining on Stanley Cup Playoff games, but probably not like this. On a night when games in the NBA, Major League Baseball, MLS and the WNBA were postponed in protest over racial injustice, the NHL and the players completed their full slate of games —
4:00 AM ET Any club from top teams like Manchester United, Liverpool and Barcelona to lower-league and semi-pro sides can produce a terrible kit. ESPN Illustration After compiling and ranking the best 101 soccer kits ever, it was only fair that we once again enlisted ESPN’s soccer writers and editors from around the globe to help
6:05 PM ET The Milwaukee Bucks have boycotted Game 5 on Wednesday against the Orlando Magic to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The NBA announced shortly after that all of Wednesday’s playoff games — including Game 5 between the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder and Game 5 between the
10:52 PM ET Kelly CohenESPN On Sunday, there were four NBA playoff games, three WNBA games, two NHL playoff games, one MLS game and 14 MLB games. The same day, Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as he tried to enter the driver’s
8:59 PM ET USC will pause football workouts until at least Monday due to positive tests for COVID-19, the school announced. The school’s weekly surveillance testing program recorded eight positive tests between the football team and men’s water polo team, which also will suspend activities. “All eight student-athletes have been isolated,” the school said in
10:08 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Naomi Osaka, the two-time major tennis champion, announced that she would not play in Thursday’s Western & Southern Open semifinal match in reaction to the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. Several hours later, the tournament announced that it was pausing play for a day. “As a sport, tennis is