1:11 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian Open chief executive Craig Tiley wants international tennis players arriving for the first Grand Slam tournament of 2021 to be exempt from the strict, 14-day hotel quarantines that are mandatory now for inbound travelers. Tiley on Thursday said he remained “absolutely” confident the Australian Open will
1:14 AM ET Pedro GomezMLB Close ESPN’s Pedro Gomez covered the Oakland A’s home and away nearly every day from 1992-97 for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee and then became the national baseball writer and later a general columnist at the Arizona Republic before becoming an ESPN bureau reporter in 2003. SAN
4:31 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Clayton Kershaw will start Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts confirmed after his team’s 15-3 rout of the Atlanta Braves in Wednesday’s Game 3. Kershaw suffered back spasms during a Saturday bullpen session and was scratched from his originally scheduled Game
1:45 AM ET In the age of analytics in baseball, a lot of longtime fans still appreciate the old-school ways. As baseball’s oldest manager, Houston‘s Dusty Baker has plenty of old school in him. It turns out his ace pitcher is pretty happy about that. Baker bucked metrics-fueled trends in pitcher usage during the sixth
7:03 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — The Los Angeles Dodgers were hoping to ride whatever momentum they built in Tuesday’s ninth inning into Game 3, and they wound up doing so in unprecedented fashion. The Dodgers, losers of the first two games of this best-of-seven National League Championship Series, scored 11 runs in Wednesday’s first
1:20 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” ARLINGTON, Texas — Before conducting the autopsy of the blowout that was Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Wednesday night, a reminder: There is no physical prize for winning
6:59 PM ET Nick JuddTransfer writer The coronavirus pandemic made the transfer market unlike any before it, but there was still plenty of action on Deadline Day. With the window closed across the major leagues in Europe, you can check out the latest major completed transfers across the globe. Juve saving up for Mbappe bid
5:55 PM ET Former United States international Freddy Adu has signed with Swedish third-division side Osterlen FF, according to multiple reports. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only) The 31-year-old, who last played for the USL’s Las Vegas Lights in 2018, appeared to confirm the deal on social media. “Missed this sport so
12:32 AM ET Caden Clark scored the tying goal in the 77th minute and the visiting New York Red Bulls rallied for a 1-1 draw against league-leading Toronto FC Wednesday night at Rentschler Field in Hartford, Connecticut. The 17-year-old became the youngest player in MLS history to score in his first two games after entering
12:04 PM BST Liam Napier Flick through the rugby almanac and history will reveal swift responses to All Black defeats. Last week’s opening Bledisloe Cup opener in Wellington finished with almost nine minutes of frantic squandered chances and a dramatic draw, of course. To the All Blacks, the feeling was defeat. The Ian Foster-Sam Cane