6:52 AM ET NBA Insiders In his 17th season, LeBron James faces a major new challenge along with his Los Angeles Lakers teammates: heading into the Orlando bubble for the NBA restart after a hiatus of almost five months and taking the legendary franchise to its 17th championship. How will James look in Florida? Can
5:39 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Australia women’s captain Meg Lanning will return to the Melbourne Stars for the next WBBL season following three years with the Perth Scorchers. The move had been expected for some time but the contracting embargo for the tournament was only lifted last Friday due the disrupted off-season with Covid-19. Lanning
6:37 PM ET BLAINE, Minn. — English golfer Tommy Fleetwood is ready to finish the PGA Tour season after an up-and-down four-month stretch, which included a pair of 14-day quarantines on two different continents. Fleetwood, one of the top golfers at this week’s 3M Open in Blaine, Minnesota, last competed in the United States in
2:36 PM ET Montreal Canadiens center Max Domi, after “extensive conversations with doctors,” has decided to play in the NHL’s restart, despite the risks associated with his Type 1 diabetes and celiac disease. Domi, 25, joined his teammates on the ice Monday and Tuesday after taking the first week of training camp off to evaluate
3:41 PM BST World Champions South Africa will either play in the Rugby Championship in New Zealand later this year or embark on a tour to Europe, but will not have space on the calendar for both, officials confirmed on Tuesday. The Springboks have not been in action since lifting the World Cup in Japan
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1:50 PM ET BLAINE, Minn. — Brooks Koepka called the killing of George Floyd a “pathetic” act as he prepares to headline the first major sporting event in the Minneapolis area since that tragedy. Koepka and other pro golfers will participate in the 3M Open this week in Blaine, Minnesota, just 20 miles from the
2:50 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Combate Americas mixed martial arts promotion postponed its return to competition Tuesday because of the coronavirus surge in Florida. Combate Americas had planned to return Aug. 28 with the first of three fan-free shows from a television studio in Miami. Instead, CEO Campbell McLaren decided the
1:28 PM ET Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl, Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon and New York Rangers winger Artemi Panarin are the finalists for the Hart Trophy, awarded annually to the NHL player “judged most valuable to his team.” The winner, which will be revealed during the conference final round set to begin Aug. 1,
12:35 PM ET UFC women’s flyweight contender Joanne Calderwood has decided against waiting for a title shot. Calderwood, who was supposed to fight UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko in June before Shevchenko injured her knee, has agreed to fight Jennifer Maia on less than two weeks’ notice after Maia’s original opponent, Viviane Araujo, withdrew
2:29 PM ET Colleges and universities in New York can play football and other sports this fall, but they will have to do so without fans in the stands because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to an order from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday. “Fanless, the game can go on, the game can be televised,
6:00 AM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — To say the past year has been a whirlwind for San Francisco 49ers running back Raheem Mostert would be quite the understatement. In roughly 12 months, Mostert signed a three-year contract extension with the Niners, welcomed his first son, returned from a forearm injury, became the team’s best
6:42 AM ET NBA Insiders How many championships will Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James finish his career with? Can he catch Michael Jordan as the greatest basketball player of all time? James and the Lakers enter the NBA restart in Orlando, Florida, as one of the top title contenders, though this will be unlike
12:10 AM IST Team Moeen 325 for 9 (Bairstow 127, Moeen 85, Rashid 4-65) beat Team Morgan 225 (Duckett 68, Moeen 3-40) by 100 runs Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali starred as England’s two World Cup winners outshone the rookies in the first intra-squad match at the Ageas Bowl ahead of the one-day international series
7:15 AM ET After a delay of nearly four months, the 2020 MLB season will begin on Thursday night when the Washington Nationals host the New York Yankees (7 ET, ESPN). It’s time to pin down our expectations for what we expect to happen in the abbreviated 60-game season. Will the Nationals repeat? Is this
8:17 AM ET Augusta National sits quiet. Life bustles by the esteemed club, which is closed for the summer and typically is not on the mind of the golf world. In a normal year, the Masters Tournament would be three months in the past, the major championship season complete. The club’s reopening to its membership
10:25 AM ET Associated Press The tournament that was supposed to mark the official return of men’s professional tennis amid the coronavirus pandemic has been canceled. The Citi Open in Washington, scheduled to start with Aug. 13 qualifying, was called off Tuesday because of what tournament manager Mark Ein said are “too many unresolved external
8:52 AM ET Steve KimESPN The initial run of shows inside of Top Rank’s “bubble” inside of the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas culminates Tuesday with two former world titleholders returning to the ring as headliners. Former featherweight titlist Oscar Valdez will face Jayson Velez in a 10-round junior featherweight main event, and