Month: April 2020

1:04 PM ET Colby Covington‘s over-the-top persona seems tailor-made for the world of professional wrestling, and he is already making plans for when and how he’d like to make the transition from the UFC Octagon to a WWE ring. “I would say probably 2021,” Covington said on SB Nation’s “What the Heck” show. “Not this
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1:55 PM ET While the coronavirus pandemic has brought college sports to a halt this spring, the College Football Playoff staff is still planning for a regularly scheduled season and postseason events, CFP executive director Bill Hancock told ESPN on Monday. “We’re planning on a CFP,” he said. “That’s what our staff is doing as
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12:42 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — ESPN and NFL Network will join forces for this year’s NFL draft. They will produce a broadcast that will air on both networks over all three days. The April 23-25 draft was originally scheduled to be in Las Vegas, but has been moved due to the coronavirus
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12:25 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — The Colts will honor their past and their home state by having a slightly different look to their uniforms next season. The Colts, who have kept their uniforms relatively traditional — outside of their color rush uniforms — going back to the days when the franchise was in Baltimore, announced
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12:19 PM ET The Chicago Bulls fired general manager Gar Forman on Monday after 10 years in the role and 22 years with the team. The move came soon after the Bulls confirmed the hiring of Denver Nuggets general manager Arturas Karnisovas as the franchise’s executive vice president of basketball operations, which ESPN reported last
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10:00 AM ET With sports at a standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic, Americans offered mixed opinions in a recent poll when asked whether the NFL season should start on time, with a little less than half of respondents indicating it should not. By a 46% to 36% margin, those polled do not think the
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11:07 AM ET Vikings running back Dalvin Cook says he recognized that Stefon Diggs wasn’t happy with his situation in Minnesota, but he still took the wide receiver’s trade to the Buffalo Bills hard. “That one hurt,” Cook said in a telephone interview with the Pioneer Press. “It hurt. That’s my brother. You know how
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10:26 AM ET ESPN News Services Chip Ganassi Racing has suspended driver Kyle Larson without pay after he used a racial slur on a live stream during a virtual race Sunday. “We are extremely disappointed by what Kyle said last night during an iRacing Event. The words that he chose to use are offensive and
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