8:06 AM ET The Washington Football Team has released veteran running back Adrian Peterson, the team announced Friday. Peterson, 35, rushed for 1,940 yards and 12 touchdowns in two seasons with Washington. He missed one game, when then-coach Jay Gruden made him a healthy inactive for the 2019 season opener. Peterson, who entered the league
5:18 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show On Saturday, Isaac Chamberlain will prepare for his second fight in two weeks following an extended break of no boxing in nearly two years.
7:00 AM ET NHL Insiders It took a while, but the 2020 NHL playoffs have finally served up a Game 7. After falling behind 3-1 in the series, the Colorado Avalanche roared back to tie things up with the Dallas Stars. The two Central Division foes have given us some entertaining hockey, taking turns completely
7:05 AM ET At first we were worried we weren’t going to have any Game 7s in the 2020 NHL playoffs. Now — thanks to three teams climbing out of the dreaded 3-1 hole — we’re going to have three in a 28-hour span. And that includes two today! In the same rink! What could
7:20 AM ET A week before IMG Academy’s first game of the season, Bobby Acosta slowly walked around the football field, thinking about how far he and his team had come the past few months. Alone with his thoughts, Acosta, IMG’s new head football coach, was moved to tears as he prodded across the turf,
7:00 AM ET I think referee Bob Johnson spoke for everyone last Saturday night when he uttered the first words heard from an official during a college football game in this godforsaken, expletive-not-deleted 2020 season. “God damn mask!” Johnson said. Nothing reverberates quite as loudly as a decidedly unsolemn oath over the loudspeaker of a
6:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said he is unaware that he has a reputation regarding running backs. The reputation is from how his time with the Green Bay Packers ended. To be kind, the Packers were pass-heavy. To be fair, McCarthy never had a runner like Ezekiel Elliott. “I
7:15 AM ET If you knew where to look this summer, you might have spotted an NFL game official working out on a community football field. Some wanted to know what it felt like to wear a mask while breathing heavily. Others wanted to see if a face shield would fall off when they ran.
5:00 AM ET Between July 2018 and June 2019, 49 horses died at the Santa Anita racetrack in Southern California. Some broke down in training — a snapped leg bone, an irreversible injury. Others died publicly during a race. These incidents confirmed what horse racing people already knew: Sometimes … horses die. But when the
3:37 PM IST With three ICC tournaments due to be played over the next two years, Pakistan have doubled the number of white-ball games in their domestic structure. The National T20 Cup, ODI Cup and the Under-19 one-day tournament will now be played in a double round-robin league format. The PCB has announced a full