6:05 PM ET Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Sidelined by an oblique strain, New York Mets outfielder Michael Conforto would not speculate whether he could return for the March 26 regular-season opener against Washington. “I feel very good right now. It’s different for everybody — the timeline can be short or long,” Conforto
Month: March 2020
5:01 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN MILWAUKEE — When the Bucks announced Sunday that the MRI on the left knee of reigning NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo revealed a minor joint capsule sprain and that he would spend only a short time on the sideline, the basketball world breathed a sigh of relief. So did Antetokounmpo, who
7:00 AM ET We have reached the point of the NHL season where fans have to check the standings each morning to find out whether their team is in or out of the playoffs. But for this week’s ESPN NHL Power Rankings, we took the whole campaign into consideration, and identified the player on each
4:03 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Brooks Koepka, in an effort to emerge from a slump that has persisted this year since the golfer returned from a knee injury, visited legendary coach Butch Harmon in Las Vegas on Monday in hopes of finding something to jump-start his game. Koepka did so with the
4:31 PM ET The NBA’s board of governors attained a consensus on Wednesday to continue the season playing games without fans in arenas amid the coronavirus crisis, and commissioner Adam Silver is expected to move in that direction with a decision on Thursday, sources told ESPN. The owners talked via teleconference Wednesday and discussed various
4:41 PM ET Josie Harris, the former longtime girlfriend of Floyd Mayweather, with whom she has three teenage children, was found dead in her car outside her home in Valencia, California, on Tuesday night. She was 40. Homicide investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to a report and at approximately 10 p.m.
3:27 PM ET Associated Press The Fed Cup finals have been postponed indefinitely in response to concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus. The 12-team women’s tennis tournament was set to be played April 14-19 in Budapest, Hungary. The International Tennis Federation said it still hopes to stage the event in 2020, but did
The Players Championship, the first big tournament and the unofficial fifth major of the PGA Tour season, is here. All but three of the top 50 players in the world are competing for a $15 million purse, with Woods being the most notable absentee as he continues to rest his ailing back. Defending champion Rory
3:34 PM ET One day after saying he “truly” wants to re-sign with the New York Jets, pending free-agent receiver Robby Anderson pulled a stutter-step, saying he has dreamed about playing with Tom Brady. “I just had a dream last night that we were on the same team,” Anderson said Wednesday morning, appearing as a
Mar 11, 2020 Heavyweight Oleksandr Usyk, the unbeaten former undisputed cruiserweight world champion, is in a mandatory position to challenge three-belt titleholder Anthony Joshua but has no plans to sit around waiting for that fight, which would not happen until this fall, at the earliest. So while Joshua attends to another mandatory defense against Kubrat