9:00 AM ET MIAMI — Ask San Francisco 49ers running back Raheem Mostert, himself a former Big Ten sprint champion at Purdue, which teammates he’d choose to form a 4×100 relay team and he pauses for just a moment before rattling off four names. “Me, Matt Breida, Tevin Coleman, and I’ll take Jeff Wilson,” Mostert
7:26 PM GMT ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Saracens have been docked a further 70 points to confirm their relegation, Premiership Rugby announced on Tuesday. The English and European champions were deducted 35 points and fined £5.3 million in November after an independent disciplinary panel said the club failed to disclose player
UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships 2020 Coverage: BBC Red Button, Sport website, app and connected TV Saturday 1 Feb: Men’s U-23 race 11:50-13:15 Elite Women’s race: 13:50-15:05, replay 17:25-18:40 (not Red Button) Sunday 2 Feb: Elite Men’s race: 13:20-15:00 (not Red Button) Tom Pidcock, Beth Crumpton and Evie Richards will lead the charge for Great Britain
8:00 AM GMT Sri Lanka 226 for 5 (Mathews 53*, Raza 4-85) trail Zimbabwe 406 (Williams 107, Raza 72, Taylor 62, Embuldeniya 4-182) by 180 runs Angelo Mathews’ 35th Test fifty rescued Sri Lanka from a precarious position in the first hour of play as Sri Lanka added 104 runs for the loss of three
3:59 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — At the beginning of the fortnight in Melbourne, there wouldn’t have been too many Australian tennis fans rooting for Alexander Zverev. It’s not to say the seventh seed is someone who’s not worth rooting for, but the German simply pales in comparison to the likes of Roger Federer, Rafael
3:59 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — At the beginning of the fortnight in Melbourne, there wouldn’t have been too many Australian tennis fans rooting for Alexander Zverev. It’s not to say the seventh seed is someone who’s not worth rooting for, but the German simply pales in comparison to the likes of Roger Federer, Rafael
2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships Dates: 30 January-2 February Venue: Milton, Canada Coverage: Daily reports on the BBC Sport website. Watch live coverage via http://www.uci.org/ It was during his second tour to Afghanistan, two weeks away from returning home, that Jaco van Gass was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. Its devastation was instant. Van
7:00 AM ET COSTA MESA, California — IT WAS SUNDAY morning in Balboa Island, a harborside community off Newport Beach, and Tony Altobelli was getting his steps in. At around 11 a.m., his phone buzzed with a text message from his brother Jim. TMZ was reporting that Kobe Bryant had died in a helicopter accident.
10:53 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Before moving forward, the Los Angeles Lakers had to take a look back. The Lakers gathered their players and coaches at the team’s practice facility in El Segundo, California, on Tuesday for the first time since Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others died in a tragic
11:55 PM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — Nate Johnson spent the last seven years as an assistant baseball coach at Orange Coast College, working underneath the legendary John Altobelli. He was promoted to associate head coach before this season began, which put Johnson in line to take over when Altobelli retired — which Altobelli continued
8:34 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant died Sunday at age 41. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among nine people killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, a source confirmed to ESPN. Bryant entered the NBA straight out of high school in 1996 and won five championships and one regular-season
8:18 PM ET LOS ANGELES — An emotional Shaquille O’Neal broke down in tears Tuesday, knowing that he won’t be able to have another conversation with Kobe Bryant or celebrate his former teammate’s induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame. “I haven’t felt a pain that sharp in a while,” O’Neal said during a TNT
2:57 AM GMT Will Pucovski will make his return to representative ranks after taking his most recent mental-health break ahead of the Test summer against Pakistan and New Zealand, as captain of a Cricket Australia XI. The side will face the England Lions in a three-match 50-over series to begin their developmental tour of Australia
7:00 AM ET Former manager Bobby Bragan once described baseball statistics like this: “Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.” Good one. Nonetheless, baseball is a numbers game. As we peel away from the Astros’
8:44 PM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — A pair of two-time major winners will play for a spot in the Australian Open final after No. 4 Simona Halep and unseeded Garbiñe Muguruza won their quarterfinals matches in straight sets on Wednesday. Both have already won Wimbledon and the French Open and are bidding for
7:00 AM ET If, for some reason, someone wanted to put together a list of the most insignificant San Francisco 49ers games over the past 40 years, the team’s loss at New England to close out the 2004 season would be a strong candidate to top the list. The 49ers had already clinched the league’s
7:30 AM ET NFL NationESPN No NFL season goes exactly as expected, and Super Bowl LIV illustrates a perfect example. Nine months ago, the San Francisco 49ers were picking second overall in the NFL draft after finishing 4-12 and the Kansas City Chiefs were coming off a 2018 season that saw them ranked 31st in
6:55 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Daniel Suarez landed a job two weeks before the NASCAR season begins when Gaunt Brothers Racing signed the Mexican driver for the No. 96 Toyota in the Cup Series. Suarez learned during the final weekend of last season, in November, that Stewart-Haas Racing was letting him go