8:26 AM ET There’s a generation of people who became boxing fans because of the Marvin Hagler vs. Tommy Hearns fight in 1985 — an eight-minute slugfest won by Hagler in a third-round knockout. Thirty-six years later, many recognize it as the greatest fight ever. Hagler died in March after suffering a heart attack at
10:25 AM ET Max Mosley, the former president of motor racing’s governing body, the FIA, has died aged 81. Mosley headed up the FIA between 1993 and 2009 and played a pivotal role in pioneering improvements in safety standards after the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.
May 22, 2021 MONACO — Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz believes he would have been on pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix had his teammate, Charles Leclerc, not crashed in the final moments of qualifying. Leclerc secured pole for Sunday’s race, but only after he hit the barriers on the exit of the Swimming Pool
7:07 AM ET Mercedes will be unable to remove the front-right wheel nut from Valtteri Bottas’ Monaco Grand Prix race car until it returns to the team’s UK factory this week. Bottas was running in second position before he stopped for a scheduled tyre change mid-race, only for Mercedes to struggle to remove the tyre.
6:00 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — While some teams are pulling back on offseason workouts, coach Matt Rhule says they hold added importance for the Carolina Panthers. It’s because the Panthers had the sixth-youngest roster in the league, behind the Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers, New York Jets, Minnesota Vikings and Indianapolis Colts, at
6:00 AM ET PITTSBURGH — Illinois offensive lineman Kendrick Green‘s goal seemed simple enough: complete one Nordic curl by the end of his pre-draft training with offensive line guru Duke Manyweather. Just one curl in 12 weeks. But in reality, releasing his 6-foot-4, 312-pound frame from kneeling perpendicular to the ground to descending until his
6:34 AM ET Farewell to the Washington Capitals and St. Louis Blues, two recent Stanley Cup champions who were eliminated on Sunday. Three more teams — the Florida Panthers, Minnesota Wild and, quite shockingly, the Edmonton Oilers — could join them after Monday night’s action. Check out the ESPN NHL Playoffs Daily to catch up
5:42 AM ET It was late December, not yet the end of the season, and already the wolves were circling. An assistant at a high-level Power 5 program knew two of his school’s best young players — one on offense and one on defense — were being actively recruited by other programs. In fact, he
4:00 AM ET Mark Ogden Rob Dawson Manchester United enjoyed their joint-best league placing since Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager in 2013, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team ending second in the Premier League and also having a chance to win the Europa League against Villarreal. 2 Related Despite progress being made on the pitch
10:11 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN NEW YORK — There are few people in the NBA today who know what it’s like, and what it means, to truly make Madison Square Garden shake. Tom Thibodeau, however, is one of them. In 1999, Thibodeau was an assistant on Jeff Van Gundy’s coaching staff with the New York