8:00 AM ET What we’ll call the Jeff Luhnow mentality could be defined as the absolute devotion to gleaning every fragment of advantage, every bit of efficiency, regardless of whether you might drift beyond the bounds of common sense. The ends justify the means; just win the moment, baby. It’s as if Major League Baseball’s
7:05 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Manchester United midfielders Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes played together for the first time as the club played two friendlies against West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford on Friday. Both players started in the opening match against the Championship side which United lost 2-1. Fernandes
9:18 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The workouts that Tom Brady has been organizing at Berkeley Preparatory School aren’t just with his Buccaneers teammates. On Saturday, Brady put Shedeur Sanders, the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, through a workout. Shedeur Sanders is an ESPN four-star-rated quarterback entering his senior season at
7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN Before tuning in to watch ESPN’s “Long Gone Summer” (9 p.m. ET Sunday on ESPN) on the famous 1998 race between Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs to top Roger Maris’ single-season home run record (61), we asked three of our baseball
5:36 PM IST Cricket South Africa has terminated the contract of Clive Eksteen, its former head of sales and sponsor relations, after finding him guilty of “transgressions of a serious nature”. Eksteen was suspended in October last year, alongside then interim director of cricket Corrie van Zyl and COO Naasei Appiah and faced charges of
4:00 AM ET Football might be slowly returning amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the transfer window is likely to feel the financial impact for a while to come. As a result, clubs will turn to swap deals in a bid to move players on and bring in others for a cheaper fee. Here are some
4:54 PM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi LAS VEGAS — After months of frustrating setbacks and cancellations, UFC middleweight Marvin Vettori finally got to fight — and he looked pretty good doing so. Vettori (15-3-1) submitted Karl
3:10 PM ET UFC president Dana White officially announced the company’s next two events to ESPN on Friday. Both will take place at the UFC’s Apex facility in Las Vegas. A heavyweight bout between Curtis Blaydes and Alexander Volkov will headline UFC Fight Night on June 20, and a highly anticipated lightweight fight between Dustin
12:31 AM ET Cynthia Calvillo is a UFC women’s flyweight contender after just one fight in the division. Calvillo rolled in a unanimous decision (49-46, 49-46, 48-47) win over Jessica Eye on Saturday night in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. Calvillo took Eye down in four out of five rounds
1:22 AM ET Saturday’s UFC Fight Night card started with three first-minute flash knockouts and ended with Cynthia Calvillo making an emphatic statement in her UFC women’s flyweight debut. Calvillo soundly defeated Jessica Eye and instantly put herself in the conversation among the best in the division. Merab Dvalishvili made an impression of his own,
2:56 PM ET Former Murray State star Ja Morant is asking a Kentucky judge to remove a Confederate monument in downtown Murray. Morant, who was drafted with the second pick in the 2019 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies, led Murray State to a conference championship in 2019. “Murray felt like a second home from
7:33 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The Major League Baseball Players Association asked MLB to set a schedule for the 2020 season rather than counter the latest return-to-play proposal by the league, setting the stage for MLB to
10:34 PM ET Clemson’s football team participated in a march on Saturday that started at Bowman Field on the university campus, lasting just under two hours with thousands of attendees. The march was organized by four Clemson players: Running back Darien Rencher, linebacker Mike Jones Jr., wide receiver Cornell Powell and quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Prior
12:13 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA informed teams in a memo Saturday that COVID-19 testing for players and staff taking part in the league’s restart will begin June 23 and take place every other day. The memo, which was obtained by ESPN, says players and “essential team staff” — any coaches, trainers or medical
12:08 AM ET Steve KimESPN Bantamweight Oscar Negrete has been ruled out of the June 25 fight against Jason Moloney (20-1, 17 KOs) because of a detached retina, multiple sources told ESPN. Negrete will be replaced by the rugged Leonardo Baez (18-2, 9 KOs), who has a six-fight winning streak. The bout is scheduled to
10:23 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Kyle Busch‘s slump wasn’t much of a slump. And it’s over now, anyway. Busch won the NASCAR Truck Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Saturday night, his 58th career win on the circuit and his eighth victory in his past 10 trucks starts. He had been winless in
Adam Zampa has returned to NSW after seven years with South Australia © Getty Images Australia legspinner Adam Zampa has returned to his home state New South Wales after seven seasons with South Australia. Zampa made his first-class debut for NSW in 2012 and played three Sheffield Shield matches and four one-day games for them
7:17 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — The PGA Tour went three months without playing. It took three days to show fans what they were missing, even if all they could do was watch on TV. Eight players had at least a share of the lead at some point Saturday in the Charles