9:10 AM ET Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti said he would be “the worst kind of hypocrite” if he didn’t speak out about social injustice. In a 10-minute video released by the team on Twitter Friday, Bisciotti was among the 20 people in the organization who called for the end of racial inequality in the
Month: June 2020
4:03 AM ET Formula One drivers can forget about podium celebrations this season under new rules to protect them from the COVID-19 pandemic. The pre-race drivers’ parade will also be scrapped, but the fans won’t be there anyway, and there will be no standing together for the national anthem or trophies handed over directly by
6:00 AM ET In late May, a couple of days after ESPN aired the final installments of “The Last Dance” and with the 1990s Chicago Bulls once again all the rage, who should appear in the Philadelphia Eagles‘ team videoconference meeting but the Zen Master himself, Phil Jackson. “It was cool, because that’s a legend
7:10 AM ET Doug Williams traveled a long road, not to mention an atypical one, to become the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl. He starred at a historically black college, Grambling, before the Tampa Bay Buccaneers picked him in the first round of the 1978 draft — on the recommendation of then-offensive
7:00 AM ET One of the fun aspects of any MLB draft is trying to predict which players will be the first to reach the majors — and it’s not always the players right at the top of the draft. This has become even harder to do as teams manipulate service time and hold a
Jun 11, 2020 Nicky Bandini Lautaro Martinez did not leave much of an impression during his first visit to the Camp Nou. The Argentinian forward had played only a handful of games for Inter in the fall of 2018 before being thrown into a Champions League group-stage clash with Barcelona as a second-half substitute. His
9:59 PM ET In theory, you could pull it off without a hitch: about 1,500 people test negative for the coronavirus — several times — before entering the NBA’s proposed “bubble” at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, they interact with almost no one else, and the league emerges three months later
8:00 AM ET On Dec. 6, 2019, UFC strawweight Cynthia Calvillo barricaded herself in her Washington, D.C., hotel room and wept, alone, for hours — one day before she was to face an undefeated, surging prospect in Marina Rodriguez. Calvillo, who faces Jessica Eye (15-7) at UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas, was
11:13 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Matt Poore, the New Zealand right-hand batsman and offspinner from the 1950s, died in Auckland on Thursday, ten days after completing his 90th birthday. A batsman who bowled a bit, Poore played most of his cricket in Christchurch in a first-class career that ran from 1950-51 to 1961-62, and he
10:05 PM ET Oregon‘s recruiting success in California continued Friday when ESPN 300 wide receiver Troy Franklin announced his commitment to the Ducks. Franklin is the No. 69 prospect overall and chose Oregon over Alabama, Arizona State and Washington. He’s a 6-foot-1, 175-pound receiver out of Menlo High School in Atherton, California, and is the