10:57 AM ET The Miami Marlins are hiring Kim Ng as their new general manager, making her Major League Baseball’s first female and first Asian American GM, the team announced Friday. Ng has most recently served as MLB’s senior vice president of baseball operations. She has also served as assistant general manager for the New
2:52 PM ET Didier Deschamps’ weekends have become really tricky in 2020. The France head coach wants to watch as many of his players featuring for their clubs every Saturday or Sunday, but the problem is that there are too many contenders now to make the squad that he and his assistants are struggling to
11:41 AM ET ESPN News Services German tennis player Alexander Zverev gave a more detailed denial of domestic abuse allegations made by a former girlfriend, saying Friday “that’s not who I am.” Olga Sharypova said last month that the 23-year-old Zverev tried to strangle her with a pillow before last year’s US Open. The seventh-ranked
1:19 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — After a turbulent week-plus mixed with multiple positive and negative COVID-19 test results, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Kendrick Bourne will be available to play Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. The Niners announced Friday that Bourne has been activated from the reserve/COVID-19 list for the second time
1:30 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Calais Campbell has been ruled out for the Baltimore Ravens‘ Sunday night game in New England, coach John Harbaugh said Friday. This ends the NFL’s second-longest current streak for defensive ends. Campbell, who injured his calf last Sunday, will miss his first game since 2014. His streak of
12:33 PM ET Paul Hornung, “The Golden Boy” who starred for Notre Dame in the 1950s and the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s, has died at age 84, the Louisville Sports Commission announced Friday. The commission said Hornung had dementia. Hornung, born Dec. 23, 1935, in Louisville, Kentucky, was one of only seven players
1:01 PM ET SEC presidents and chancellors this week approved Dec. 19, which is the day of the SEC championship game, as a makeup date for other games that have been postponed this season because of COVID-19, a source told ESPN on Friday. As the SEC continues to navigate its way through a tumultuous week
11:55 AM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Caron Butler is coming back to the Miami Heat, agreeing to begin his coaching career as an assistant on Erik Spoelstra’s staff, a source told The Associated Press on Friday. Butler and the Heat are in the process of finalizing his contract, the source said. Butler was the
12:18 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Udonis Haslem announced Friday that he’s returning for an 18th season with the Miami Heat, and left the door open for extending his career after that. Only five NBA players have spent a career of that length with one franchise. Dirk Nowitzki spent 21 years with Dallas, Kobe
7:48 AM ET Paul Felder was home with his family on Sunday night in Philadelphia. It was around 7:30 p.m., and while scrolling through social media, Felder saw a report that Islam Makhachev was out of his UFC Fight Night main event with Rafael dos Anjos, a bout scheduled for the following weekend. That was