8:38 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1995, Giants infielder Mike Benjamin went 6-for-7. In his previous game, Benjamin had gone 4-for-5; the 10 hits
Month: June 2020
12:33 PM ET Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc is keen to try a real Le Mans 24 Hours after contesting the virtual version of the famous endurance motor race. Leclerc was driving in the GTE class in a Ferrari 488 but his race was ruined by server issues, which at one point left his car upside
10:17 PM IST Valkerie Baynes There will be no place for friendship when West Indies take on England belatedly this summer, Kemar Roach has warned fellow Barbadian fast bowler Jofra Archer. While no one will be happier to see each other on a cricket pitch than the combatants when their long-awaited three-Test series gets underway
11:11 AM ET Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Austin Dillon announced Sunday morning that he and his wife, Whitney, are now parents. The NASCAR driver said in a post on Instagram that Whitney Dillon gave birth to a boy named Ace. Dillon is scheduled to start 16th in the No. 3 car in Sunday’s Cup
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
8:58 AM ET Mark and Kym Hilinski, who created a foundation in the name of their son to raise mental health awareness, have been honored with one of three Stuart Scott Enspire Awards, ESPN announced Sunday. The award is part of the Sports Humanitarian Awards, which typically are handed out during the week of the
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
6:00 AM ET Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. Backfield depth: In describing why the Patriots invested a significant asset to bring aboard a backup, coach Bill Belichick once said, “Nobody needs insurance until you need insurance.” At the time, he was speaking of No. 3 quarterback Jacoby Brissett