3:10 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has added home-schooling elementary teacher to his resume. The sports stoppage from the coronavirus pandemic has thrown a red flag on Johnson’s farewell tour. He had planned a final season of racing a full NASCAR schedule, but so far that has lasted
3:26 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Forbes estimates the New York Yankees are baseball’s most valuable franchise at $5 billion, up 9% over last year and 47% more than the No. 2 Los Angeles Dodgers at $3.4 billion. The Yankees are second among all sports in Forbes’ evaluations to the Dallas Cowboys, listed
2:48 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have parted ways with Jameis Winston, who remains unsigned as a free agent, but general manager Jason Licht believes the quarterback still has a bright future in the NFL. Licht was asked during his pre-draft news conference Thursday if he believes the Heisman Trophy
Apr 9, 2020 ESPN will televise an NBA HORSE tournament — a single-elimination shooting competition — beginning on Sunday, April 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. ET. The semifinals and championship of the NBA HORSE Challenge will air April 16, beginning at 9 p.m. ET, also on ESPN and streaming on the ESPN App. The
7:00 AM ET Before we unfold the results of our Second-Chance World Series simulation, let’s muse a bit about what might have been had either, or both, of our finalists — the ’94 Montreal Expos and ’77 Kansas City Royals — gone on to win the World Series with what, for both clubs, were the
2:44 PM ET New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman will not be prosecuted after being cited by police for misdemeanor vandalism in January, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Edelman had been arrested Jan. 11 in Beverly Hills, one week after the Patriots’ season ended in a wild-card round loss to
6:07 PM GMT Nicholas Pooran, Shimron Hetmyer and Shai Hope. These three men from three different islands in the Caribbean are the reason Michael Holding can see “light at the end of the tunnel” for West Indies cricket, which he feels can once again become a global force if the young talent is nurtured properly.
1:15 PM ET ESPN News Services NBA players will receive their full checks when the next payday for most of them arrives on April 15, even though no games will have been played for more than a month at that point. The league gave teams the directive on Thursday in a memo that was obtained
7:42 AM ET Tiger Woods had not won a major championship in 11 years. He hadn’t slipped on the green jacket as Masters champions in 14. Those two numbers alone would have made what happened last April at Augusta National Golf Club a tournament for the ages. But think about everything else that happened —
8:59 AM ET Who’s the best fighter in the smaller divisions? You can make a case for Mexico’s Julio Cesar Martinez or South Africa’s Moruti Mthalane at flyweight, or Kenshiro Teraji in the junior flyweight division and the 54-0 strawweight machine Wanheng Menayothin. With no live boxing for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus