8:00 AM ET The finals in the MLB The Show Players League are set. After a scorching-hot, undefeated start to the season from Texas Rangers slugger Joey Gallo ended in a surprise first-round playoff defeat, Tampa Bay Rays left-hander Blake Snell and Chicago White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito will face off in the championship series.
Month: May 2020
7:21 PM ET Associated Press HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Charlatan romped in the first division of the Arkansas Derby, leading all the way to win a race pushed back three weeks to help fill a void when the Kentucky Derby was postponed until September. The 146th Derby usually would have dominated the first Saturday in
6:32 PM ET Associated Press Secretariat won a virtual Kentucky Derby against 12 fellow Triple Crown winners — 47 years after the chestnut colt won the real race at Churchill Downs. The 1 1/4-mile race featuring computer-generated imagery was held Saturday, the same day the 146th Derby had been scheduled until it was postponed by
6:19 PM ET Four days after detailing his diagnosis and treatments after having a cancerous tumor removed from his colon in March, Trey Mancini‘s Baltimore Orioles teammates joined him on a Zoom call on Saturday. Their message was simple for a player who wears No. 16 on the field: #F16HT The guys surprised Trey. #F16HT
5:59 PM ET CINCINNATI — The Bengals have informed wide receiver John Ross that they will not be picking up the fifth year of his rookie contract, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday. Ross, who was selected ninth overall in the 2017 draft, has struggled to stay on the field during his first
9:00 AM ET Under normal circumstances, every organization would have months of statistics and data through which to evaluate their prospects at summer’s end. Club officials would have a sense of how much the 19-year-old in Class A has refined a needed changeup, how the Double-A shortstop has cleaned up his erratic throwing and whether
3:37 PM ET The Detroit Lions are not picking up the fifth-year option on linebacker Jarrad Davis‘ contract, making the team captain a free agent after the 2020 season, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN. Davis, a first-round pick out of Florida in 2017, has started 41 games for Detroit, mostly at middle linebacker. He has
3:53 PM ET The Chicago Bears have declined the fifth-year option on quarterback Mitchell Trubisky for the 2021 season, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday. The second overall pick of the 2017 NFL draft, Trubisky finished the year 28th in total QBR (39.4), tied for 27th in touchdown passes (17), 21st in passing
3:38 PM BST Bill Beaumont has been re-elected as World Rugby chairman for another four years, the governing body announced on Saturday. Beaumont, 68, defeated former Argentina captain Agustin Pichot by 28 votes to 23 to secure a second consecutive term. “I am honoured to accept the mandate of the World Rugby Council to serve
10:00 AM ET USC finished with the 54th-ranked college football recruiting class in the country in 2020, the lowest it has finished since ESPN started its class rankings in 2009. In fact, 2020 marked the first time the Trojans had finished outside the top 20, a far fall from when they finished with the No.