2:00 AM ET Simon Cambers MELBOURNE, Australia — If Roger Federer has a bit of spare time on his hands in Melbourne over the next couple of days, perhaps he should head for the casino. Somehow the 38-year-old Swiss is still standing in the Australian Open. After a second great escape in the past few
8:49 AM ET Don’t get comfortable. The 2020 NBA trade deadline is Thursday, and by the time these Power Rankings return, many of these rosters might look very different. The Milwaukee Bucks are the first team to clinch a winning record this season, despite a rare loss to the Denver Nuggets on Friday. The Los
9:54 PM ET LeBron James, in his first public reaction to the death of Kobe Bryant, said he will take on the legacy of the Lakers great as his own responsibility. James, in a lengthy post to Instagram, said he was “heartbroken and devastated” by the death of Bryant and his daughter Gianna’s deaths Sunday
1:49 AM GMT Marcus Stoinis believes he can still break into Australia’s T20 World Cup team as an allrounder despite being recast as a non-bowling opening batsman for the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League, a role in which he is all but assured of finishing as the tournament’s top scorer this season. In
7:00 AM ET Earlier this winter, I researched free-agent spending over the past decade and discovered the Cincinnati Reds had committed just $121.1 million in free agency during the 2010s, the lowest total of any team. Less than the Rays. Less than the Marlins. Less than the A’s. The Reds do not spend in free
7:42 AM ET UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic is recovering from eye surgery, and his manager isn’t sure when he’ll be able to fight again. Top contender Daniel Cormier is tired of waiting and said if his trilogy fight with Miocic doesn’t happen by this summer, he could just retire. ESPN’s No. 4 prospect Curtis
5:29 PM ET Seldom-used forward Travis Boyd, in the lineup because Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin had to serve a one-game suspension, scored his third goal of the season as Washington outlasted the Canadiens 4-2 on Monday in Montreal. The win was Washington’s fourth in a row, and it padded the Capitals’ lead atop the NHL
5:45 PM ET ESPN.com Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Super Bowl LIV between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers kicks on Feb. 2 at Hard Rock Stadium in South Florida. The festivities for the 2020 Super Bowl begin tonight when the teams meet the media at Super Bowl Opening Night. Here
4:11 PM ET Mechelle VoepelespnW.com Close Mechelle Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. HARTFORD, Conn. — Chicago Sky guard Katie Lou Samuelson couldn’t hold back her emotions Monday. Growing up in Huntington Beach, California,
5:08 PM ET Representatives for unified heavyweight world titlist Anthony Joshua and mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev are close enough to making a deal that on Monday they asked the IBF for a second extension of their deadline. “(We are) making great progress and closing in on a deal,” Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn told ESPN
7:00 AM ET Mike Trout has been baseball’s best player for nearly a decade and still has not won a postseason game. We know this, and yet the mere mention of it always seems to make our heads spin. Such a thing is actually a very rare circumstance, even within a sport that so greatly
7:10 AM ET It was August 2019, still a couple of months before David Ross would be introduced as the 55th manager of the Chicago Cubs. It also was the day before the Alabama Crimson Tide football team would begin practice. Alabama head coach Nick Saban had asked Ross to speak with his team about
4:01 PM ET Daniel Cormier said Monday if he doesn’t get his trilogy bout with heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic by the summer, he would consider retiring. “You can’t wait forever,” Cormier said on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. “Every day that passes does not benefit me. I’m a realist, I understand that. Either we’re going to
3:49 PM ET Oklahoma legend DeMarco Murray is going back to school. The Sooners’ leader in all-purpose yards and career touchdowns has been hired as the team’s running backs coach, head coach Lincoln Riley announced Monday. Murray starred at Oklahoma from 2007 to ’10 before beginning a seven-year NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia
3:01 PM ET Grand Valley State University has suspended offensive coordinator Morris Berger as the school investigates comments Berger made to a student newspaper regarding Adolf Hitler. Berger was interviewed in the Grand Valley Lanthorn paper and was asked which three historical figures Berger would have dinner with. Berger responded by saying one of his
2:51 PM ET LSU has hired Youngstown State coach Bo Pelini as defensive coordinator, the school announced Monday. “We are privileged to have one of the top defensive coordinators in all of football in Bo Pelini join our staff,” Tigers coach Ed Orgeron said in a statement. “Bo has had some of the best defenses
3:34 PM ET Simon Cambers MELBOURNE, Australia — When Novak Djokovic is done with tennis, they will probably erect a statue of him at Melbourne Park, the place where things began for him in 2008 and where he has enjoyed most success. The Serb kick-started his Grand Slam career by winning title No. 1 in
7:30 AM ET NHL Insiders The New York Rangers might not quite be in the Stanley Cup playoff picture, but they appear to have themselves a goalie controversy. Henrik Lundqvist‘s gradual decline combined with the emergence of young backup Alexandar Georgiev and the call-up of talented prospect Igor Shesterkin has left them with some decisions