9:51 PM ET Five Texas Tech Red Raiders football players tested positive for COVID-19 last week, bringing the team’s total positive cases to 75 since players returned to campus in the middle of June, the school announced. Six cases involving football players remain active, according to the school, which also announced it has 22 other
8:31 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Honor A.P. has been retired because of an injury suffered in the Kentucky Derby, where he finished fourth. The 3-year-old colt will stand at stud for next year’s breeding season at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky. Honor A.P. had two wins in six career starts and
8:03 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The already banged-up San Francisco 49ers pass-catching corps added even more uncertainty Sunday when tight end George Kittle suffered a sprained left knee in a loss to the Arizona Cardinals. That injury could put Kittle’s status for Week 2 against the New York Jets up in the air
7:34 PM ET The New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers each made anti-racism statements prior to their Monday night matchup at MetLife Stadium. In a continuation from their posts Monday morning, the Steelers held a long white banner that read “Steelers Against Racism” during the national anthem. Tight end Eric Ebron was among the players
6:42 PM ET Eric Reid on Monday called the NFL’s social justice campaign this season “half-hearted at best” and the league’s use of video of Colin Kaepernick kneeling while the quarterback remains unsigned “diabolical.” The free-agent safety tweeted that commissioner Roger Goodell “has gotten comfortable” saying he was “wrong” not to listen to players about
7:30 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Opening day of Santa Anita’s fall season will be pushed back a week until Sept. 25 because of poor air quality caused by a wildfire burning near the Southern California racetrack. The meet had been set to open Saturday. The city of Arcadia, home to Santa Anita,
5:00 PM ET MLB InsidersESPN The 2020 MLB playoffs are less than two weeks away, even though it seems like only yesterday that the regular season kicked off. The compressed 60-game schedule is rapidly coming to a close, and the MLB standings are tight heading to the finish with wild-card positioning, postseason seeding and the
7:41 PM ET Former NBA guard Leandro Barbosa has retired from playing professional basketball and will join Steve Kerr’s staff with the Golden State Warriors as a player-mentor coach. Barbosa, who played 14 years in the league, and most recently was playing professionally in Brazil before the COVID-19 pandemic cut his team’s season short, won
6:00 PM ET Doc Rivers went over the wreckage from the LA Clippers‘ Game 6 collapse and saw a few tell-tale signs. In blowing two big leads in their past two losses to allow the Denver Nuggets to stunningly force a Game 7, the Clippers stopped playing with the pace and purpose that helped them
12:01 PM ET In a three-hour lunch meeting Friday in Milwaukee, Bucks co-owner and governor Marc Lasry made it clear to reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo that the franchise is willing to spend into the luxury tax to deliver him a championship supporting cast, sources told ESPN. The Bucks’ payroll will be close to the proposed