1:45 PM ET Associated Press So here’s a dose of realism — or surrealism — for the first video game tournament of the coronavirus pandemic involving professional tennis players: A match supposedly was postponed Monday because of Rafael Nadal‘s balky back, except the tournament director later admitted he was just kidding. That bit of silliness
7:30 AM ET If there’s one thing NHL scouts hate, it’s re-drafts. The reverse engineering and 20-20 hindsight makes it all too easy for us to ask “What if?” and point out where everyone went wrong in evaluations. But unfortunately for those scouts, that’s also what makes re-drafts fun exercises. There is no magic formula
7:00 AM ET The 2020 NFL draft is over, but the offseason mileposts keep on coming. The next decision-making deadline comes Monday, by which time teams have to decide whether to pick up the fifth-year options for 2017 first-round picks. A refresher: Rookie contracts for NFL draft picks are four years long, but contracts for
12:08 PM ET The coronavirus pandemic has forced millions of people out of work. Many have looked for alternative ways to put food on the table and that situation is no different for former world titleholder Mario Rodriguez. After the gym in which he worked was closed because of the pandemic, Rodriguez decided to open
12:37 PM ET Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh made a surprise virtual appearance to a group of schoolchildren in … Ohio. Harbaugh appeared on the morning announcements at St. Aloysius Catholic School in Bowling Green, Ohio, on Monday morning. Both Jim and John Harbaugh attended the school in the 1970s when their father, Jack, was an
12:00 PM GMT Umar Akmal‘s troubled cricket career has hit its biggest roadblock yet, with the PCB handing him a ban from all representative cricket for three years after he pleaded guilty to failing to report details of corrupt approaches made to him ahead of this year’s PSL. Akmal’s case had gone directly to the
11:08 AM ET Associated Press A group of professional tennis players led by Dustin Brown will meet in a series of exhibition tournaments in Germany starting Friday. The live-streamed event will take place at an academy near the small town of Hohr-Grenzhausen. The men’s and women’s professional tours are currently suspended until July because of
11:58 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former NASCAR champion Matt Kenseth will again come out of retirement to compete for Chip Ganassi Racing as the replacement for fired driver Kyle Larson. Larson lost his job two weeks ago after using a racial slur during a live-streamed virtual race. Although Ganassi development driver Ross
8:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” The World Series begins with only one promise: It will produce a winner. It won’t assure us a compelling story, though it does often deliver. It won’t guarantee seven nights of entertainment,
8:00 AM ET Nick DePaulaESPN “It’s gotta be the shoes.” For many basketball fans in the 1990s, that wasn’t just a line said by Spike Lee’s Mars Blackmon character in a commercial, it was a way of life. Michael Jordan helped turn basketball sneakers into a multibillion dollar industry. Episode 5 of “The Last Dance”
Britain’s Lewis Hamilton says the lack of racing in Formula 1 so far this year has left him feeling “a big void”. The Mercedes driver, who will bid to equal the record of seven world titles if the championship can be started, says he “misses racing every day”. “This is the first time since I
8:59 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer The ATP and WTA tours are currently suspended due to the global coronavirus pandemic, but that doesn’t mean you can’t see your favorite tennis players working on their skills. Thanks to the wonder of the internet, stars like Roger Federer and Andy Murray have started their own viral challenges,
8:06 AM ET Finding ways to stay busy amid the coronavirus pandemic is part of the challenge for professional golfers across the country, especially given the restrictions at various golf courses, gyms and workout facilities given various closures and limitations. Not so much for Pat Perez. The veteran PGA Tour player, who like a majority
5:20 AM ET World No. 3 Dominic Thiem has rejected the notion that the top tennis players should chip in to help lower-ranked competitors who are struggling financially due to the pause in tournaments because of the coronavirus pandemic. World No. 1 Novak Djokovic last week urged players to contribute to a fund set up
Formula 1 has laid out its ambition to start up the season in early July, by which time it hopes the coronavirus crisis will be sufficiently under control for the sport to go racing, albeit under significant restrictions. F1 boss Chase Carey hopes to complete a season of at least 16 races in a year
9:19 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff In order to avoid the dangers of rubbing saliva on the ball in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, cricket is deliberating the use of an agreed artificial substance like wax or shoe polish under the supervision of the umpire to facilitate swing bowling. Effectively it is ball tampering under the
Formula 1 boss Chase Carey says he plans to start the season in Austria in July, after France became the latest country to call off its race. French GP organisers said on Monday their race at Paul Ricard on 28 June was off as a result of the country’s ban on major events until mid-July.
1:08 AM ET Rafael Nadal is very pessimistic about the possibility of tennis returning to normal any time soon because of the coronavirus pandemic that shut down the sport last month. Professional tennis has been suspended until the end of July, at the earliest, and Nadal said Sunday that serious problems stand in the way