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
11:29 AM ET LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers have returned approximately $4.6 million that they received from a federal government program intended to help small businesses weather the economic burden caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the team said in a statement to ESPN on Monday. The Lakers, one of the NBA’s most profitable
11:43 AM ET Isiah Thomas says he has paid a “heavy price” for declining to shake hands with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the 1991 playoffs, but Bill Laimbeer does not regret the Detroit Pistons‘ infamous decision. Thomas discussed his legacy and relationship with Jordan in an inteview with ESPN’s Get Up on
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”
10:07 AM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas athletic director Jeff Long, football coach Les Miles and basketball coach Bill Self announced Monday they had taken a 10% salary reduction for the next six months in an effort to save the athletic department nearly $500,000. The move comes as the COVID-19 pandemic is putting
9:37 AM ET When General Motors repurposed one of its dormant plants in Warren, Michigan, to produce face masks for front-line workers, it needed some help for a crucial step: disinfecting. So the company turned to the hockey community for an assist. GM called the Ilitch family, which owns the Detroit Red Wings. Christopher Ilitch
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,
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