12:14 PM ET Kobe Bryant was announced as a member of the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame class, along with Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett. Bryant died in January when his helicopter crashed in the hills of Los Angeles, shocking and saddening the basketball world. Now that he will be enshrined in Springfield with other legends
Month: April 2020
12:52 PM ET High-level officials from multiple NFL teams are now preparing to do the April 23-25 draft virtually, from home, away from their team facilities, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a leaguewide memo on March 26 that it was “unanimous and unequivocal that the Draft
12:23 PM ET Kobe Bryant‘s wife, Vanessa, said Saturday that his election to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame was the “peak of his NBA career.” Speaking to ESPN’s Rece Davis via FaceTime with her daughter Natalia by her side, Vanessa Bryant said, “It’s an incredible accomplishment and honor, and we’re extremely proud of
Apr 1, 2020 Where does the star-studded 2020 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class rank? Since Tim Duncan announced his retirement in the summer of 2016, joining Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett in concluding their careers after the 2015-16 season, NBA fans have been anticipating the prospect of celebrating three league MVPs being inducted
9:01 AM ET A Mississippi State football player who criticized Bulldogs coach Mike Leach’s tweet that showed a meme of a woman knitting her husband a noose during self-quarantine entered the NCAA transfer portal on Friday. Defensive lineman Fabien Lovett wrote on Twitter that he had entered the transfer portal and has three years of
8:00 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1988, an Opening Day trend started. Three home runs by one player in a game used to be
6:00 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — New Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Darius Slay doesn’t exactly come off as the bashful type — confidence and swagger drip off him, whether he’s in a conversation or shadowing an opponent’s top receiver — but when he finally had the chance to meet his idol Kobe Bryant, he was at a
7:27 AM ET As part of ESPN’s Esports day on April 5, this weekend’s F1 Esports Virtual Grand Prix will be broadcast live on ESPN2. After the first eight races of the Formula One calendar were either postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, F1 is hosting Virtual Grand Prixs in place of the
10:50 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff With the COVID-19 pandemic locking the world down, cricket around the globe has been indefinitely stalled. Among the high-profile ones to be affected is the 13th season of the IPL. Though the chances of the tournament taking place this year is increasingly looking bleak, Kevin Pietersen is hoping for it
6:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Peyton Manning turned 44 at the end of March. If he celebrated if will likely be the first of many in a year figures to be notable as far as football goes. Manning, who retired in the weeks following the Denver Broncos‘ Super Bowl 50 win, is eligible for