5:05 PM ET Being named NFL MVP in 2018 and leading the Kansas City Chiefs to the Super Bowl championship last season did more than get Patrick Mahomes in the discussion as one of the great quarterbacks of his era. It also landed him a gig as the commencement speaker at Texas Tech‘s virtual graduation
4:59 PM ET As the uncertainty grows, and science, economic and competitive elements collide, there’s one constant in the struggle to revive the NBA: Owners and players are delivering Adam Silver full room to operate, govern and make the decision on resuming play amid a pandemic. No power grabs, no factions, no public criticisms on
4:22 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR has yet to receive the green light to race in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf says he spoke to NASCAR officials about the status of the June 27 and 28 races at Pocono Raceway. The stock car series announced this week it will stick to Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Florida and
4:23 PM ET The NFL is considering improving draft picks to teams that hire minority candidates as either coaches or general managers, sources confirmed to ESPN. Under the plan, a team would improve its third-round pick by 10 spots for hiring a minority candidate as general manger (or equivalent-level position) and six spots for hiring
2:59 PM ET Associated Press Troy and Army have scheduled a four-game series in football, spanning from 2022-2031. The schools announced Friday they will meet in Troy in 2022 and 2031. Army will host games in 2023 and 2030. Troy and Army have never met on the football field. It’s the Trojans’ second series against
1:17 PM ET Major League Baseball plans to hold the 2020 MLB Draft remotely, according to a memo obtained by ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Friday. As of now, teams are not allowed to have draft rooms and will do all drafting via video conference. That could change, the memo says, as the draft date approaches.
10:30 AM ET The UFC is capping its third event in eight days with a big main event. Literally. Alistair Overeem and Walt Harris made weight Friday morning for their heavyweight contender fight in Jacksonville, Florida. Overeem hit the scale at 253.5 pounds; Harris was at 264.5. The two will meet in the UFC Fight
8:00 AM ET Anthony Treash Over the past few months, Pro Football Focus has ranked the top 10 returning college football players at every position for 2020. A combination of Pro Football Focus grades and PFF’s wins above average (WAA) metric was used to come up with the rankings, presented below. Don’t miss the All-PFF
10:30 AM ET ESPN News Services The professional tennis tours are extending their suspensions caused by the coronavirus pandemic through at least the end of July. The total number of tournaments scrapped by the ATP, WTA and International Tennis Federation since March now tops 40. “Just like tennis fans, players and tournament hosts all over
8:00 AM ET Anthony Treash We reached the conclusion of PFF’s top-10 returning players at each position series last week, so now we are able to present to you the All-PFF College Team. Using a combination of PFF grades and PFF’s Wins Above Average (WAA) metric, we give you our team of the best players
2:36 PM ET Justin Gaethje, the UFC’s newly-crowned interim lightweight champion, had a pretty simple response to Conor McGregor‘s recent demands to fight him next: No. Gaethje (22-2) is coming off arguably the best performance of his career, a fifth-round TKO victory over Tony Ferguson for the interim title at UFC 249 last weekend. Gaethje’s
2:46 PM BST Scotland coach Gregor Townsend has said fly-half Finn Russell is available for selection again after the pair put their feud behind them. Russell was dropped on the eve of January’s Six Nations opener in Ireland and sat out three subsequent matches after what Scottish Rugby called “a breach of team protocol.” Townsend
1:27 PM ET Former Stanford multi-sport start Zach Hoffpauir died on Thursday morning. He was 26. Hoffpauir was with his father, Doug, in Arizona during the coronavirus pandemic. His father confirmed the death to the Arizona Republic but did not provide a cause. The news hit Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey and his family
12:45 PM ET Associated Press Rory McIlroy says he wouldn’t play golf again with President Donald Trump and doubts he would even be invited after questioning his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. McIlroy did an hour-plus interview for the McKellar Journal in which he was asked whether he regretted the February 2017 round with Trump
1:50 PM ET Steve KimESPN WBO junior lightweight world champion Jamel Herring will defend his title in early July in Las Vegas, he told ESPN on Friday. No opponent has been finalized to face Herring in what will be his second title defense, which Herring told ESPN is set to take place July 2. Carl
11:03 AM ET Associated Press The Michigan tournament where the LPGA Tour hoped to resume has been canceled. The LPGA says the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational will not be played July 15-18 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The tour did not offer any other specifics except for Commissioner Mike Whan emphasizing the long-term health
7:00 AM ET MICHAEL JORDAN MISSED. With 35.8 seconds left in Game 1 of the 1997 NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and the Utah Jazz, the greatest player in NBA history actually just bricked what should have been the winning free throw. And now, for roughly 26 seconds, the basketball world is in chaos:
10:56 AM ET Associated Press The International Tennis Hall of Fame’s 2020 induction ceremony for Goran Ivanisevic and Conchita Martinez has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. So has the annual men’s grass-court Hall of Fame Open tournament. Kim Clijsters and Andy Roddick, looking at trophies inside the Tennis Hall of Fame, were inducted