3:17 PM ET The Texas Collegiate League, a wood-bat summer circuit for college players, is being expanded to include several minor league franchises, the league announced Thursday. Five affiliated minor league teams will host newly created teams in the in a 30-game season that begins July 3. While the league is an amateur circuit, the
Month: June 2020
2:06 PM ET Formula One is still considering holding races at venues not on the original 2020 calendar and is also toying with the idea of using an alternative layout in Bahrain should a second race be held at the circuit. 1 Related The first eight races of the revised calendar were announced earlier this
1:52 PM ET U.S. Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone said a recently repealed policy requiring national team players to stand for the national anthem had “missed the point completely.” – Stream the full interview on ESPN FC’s YouTube page– Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only) Speaking with ESPN FC Daily, Parlow Cone
2:26 PM ET Dominic Thiem, a three-time Grand Slam finalist and the No. 3-ranked player in the ATP, has stepped in to headline the Ultimate Tennis Showdown, a 10-man round-robin-style tournament beginning on Saturday in the south of France at the Mouratoglou Academy. ‘With Dominic now, we have four of the top 10 ATP players
1:45 PM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour Champions Boeing Classic scheduled to be held in August outside of Seattle has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Tournament director Brian Flajole said Thursday that uncertainty about the ability to hold large public gatherings in Washington state led to the decision to not hold the
9:28 AM ET The Basketball Tournament, a winner-take-all affair for a seven-figure sum to be held next month, will become the first live televised basketball competition in America since the coronavirus pandemic sidelined sporting events around the world in March. Featuring former college stars and overseas standouts, the TBT will be held at Nationwide Arena,
2:46 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Tigers will host Mississippi State in 2028 and visit the Bulldogs in 2029 in a new home-and-home series. The Tigers announced the games Thursday. Memphis already was scheduled to host Mississippi State in 2021 and visit the Bulldogs in Starkville in 2022. Memphis and Mississippi
2:18 PM ET In the wake of several controversies, including a recent acknowledgment of an assistant coach using a racist epithet during practice, Clemson football players have rallied to defend coach Dabo Swinney on social media, and on Thursday four Tigers who are organizing a protest for racial justice on campus offered more insight into
11:20 AM ET I was told that the 2020 MLB draft would be wild, and I was lulled into a false sense of security by last year’s chalky top of the draft. We had true mayhem on Day 1 and I’ll use the favorite/head-scratcher format to break it down, but there wasn’t a truly “what
12:15 PM ET In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, New York Jets CEO Christopher Johnson joined a virtual team meeting last week and led players, coaches and executives through a discussion on how they can address social inequalities and use their platform to unite communities. He gave out