6:00 AM ET Almost every day his freshman year at Ohio State, Jeff Okudah, the Detroit Lions’ top pick in the 2020 NFL draft, ended up in the same place. Sometimes it’d be before his Buckeyes practice and sometimes after schoolwork, practice and meetings. Every day, though, the session would come. For at least a
Month: May 2020
12:00 PM ET The memo circulated by the NHL on Friday regarding the 2020 draft was a meticulously crafted response to every concern the league’s general managers voiced about holding the event before the season is restarted. Worried about conditional picks? Don’t worry, we’ll become de facto arbitrators if you can’t figure out the terms
7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN As far as Major League Baseball history, what was it that set the 1990s apart? You mean, besides the start of two different dynasties? Adding four new teams? How about a season without a World Series? Or how Cal Ripken Jr. surpassing Lou Gehrig’s record helped bring the game back
7:00 AM ET After the rousing success of eight amazing seasons of the 1980s, my editor suggested we follow that up with nine for the ’90s. I told Dan, in my best Luke Skywalker voice, “That’s impossible.” You see, the 1990s were such an astonishing statistical orgy that I couldn’t pick just nine seasons. No,
7:00 AM ET Matt WalksESPN Editor Close Assistant Editor Joined ESPN in 2014 Montana native, Oregon graduate EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally ran on May 7, 2016 to commemorate the anniversary of Iverson’s rant. Eighteen years ago, Allen Iverson sat in front of the media covering his Philadelphia 76ers and said the word “practice” 22
7:32 AM ET Associated Press The Kontinental Hockey League says it will not name a champion after it stopped the season part-way through the playoffs because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Russia-based league shut down in March but didn’t immediately decide how the final standings would be determined. The league is widely considered to be
6:08 AM ET Football stars Sergio Aguero and Arthur Melo have joined the grid for Formula One’s esports event this Sunday. F1’s Virtual Racing Series sees events held in place of postponed or cancelled races. On Sunday, the series will use Codemasters’ F1 2019 game with a simulated Spanish Grand Prix around Barcelona’s Circuit de
Joe Burns acknowledges his fifty © Getty Images Australia opener Joe Burns has conceded he didn’t capitalise on his good form last season as he returned to the Test team and is determined to put it right against India should the series be able to take place later this year. Burns’ stop-start international career resumed
4:00 AM BST Rugby in New Zealand is one step closer to returning with the government giving New Zealand Rugby [NZR] and professional netball the green light to resume when the nation’s restrictions ease to COVID-19 alert level two. The New Zealand government made the announcement on Thursday with the national cabinet to make a
May 6, 2020 Tennis star Sania Mirza takes pride in the fact that many of India’s sporting stars, outside cricket, are women even though she believes that it will take a few more generations before being a sportswoman is seen as a natural career choice in the country. “I take huge pride in the fact