7:00 AM ET Nick Gonzales secured a .502 on-base percentage through a 128-game collegiate career that has undoubtedly reached its conclusion. He once belted five home runs over the course of one doubleheader. And when the coronavirus pandemic shut down American sports for the foreseeable future, he was riding an 82-game on-base streak that will
Month: June 2020
11:19 AM ET Major League Baseball made an updated proposal to the MLB Players Association on Monday, moving to have a 76-game season with players getting 75% of their prorated salaries, a source familiar with the negotiations told ESPN’s Karl Ravech. The proposal includes eliminating draft pick compensation for free agents for a year. Teams
10:05 AM ET American Taylor Townsend said the tennis world is not a united place when it comes to racial tension, and she said she gets extra attention from security at tournaments while others breeze through. “Even in the tennis world it is not a united place,” Townsend said in a Tennis United video on
7:22 AM ET The NBA is back. Last week, the league’s board of governors and the players’ union both approved plans — a 22-team, 8-game wrap-up to the regular season followed by a possible play-in tournament for the eighth seed and playoffs — to resume the 2019-20 season on July 31 inside Walt Disney World’s
7:34 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN For the week of April 13 — a period that coincided with the height of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, and the panic it engendered — nine of the top-20-rated sports shows in the country were classic fights, according to ShowBuzzDaily. The oldest dated back almost half a
7:53 AM ET UFC president Dana White didn’t have long to celebrate another solid night of fighting on Saturday before Conor McGregor stole the thunder from UFC 250. McGregor abruptly announced — for the third time on social media — that he is retiring from MMA. It was just the latest public spat White has
Jun 8, 2020 Associated Press Serena Williams‘ coach Patrick Mouratoglou has said that tennis is failing to attract a new, younger audience and hopes that a new digitally friendly tournament can help. With discussions ongoing over whether the U.S. Open or the French Open can even take place later this year, a new digitally friendly
10:35 AM BST French club Pau announced that they have dismissed former All Blacks fly-half Tom Taylor for leaving the country in March without permission during the coronavirus pandemic. Taylor, who played three tests for the All Blacks in 2013, left France on March 17 despite being asked to remain in the country in case
9:11 AM ET World No. 1 Novak Djokovic has said participating in the US Open would be an impossible task due to the “extreme” coronavirus protocols in place for the tournament at Flushing Meadows. The US Open, scheduled to begin on Aug. 31, will be the first Grand Slam to be played after the COVID-19
5:06 AM BST Crowds will be permitted to attend the opening round of Super Rugby Aotearoa this weekend, after New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed the country would shift to Alert Level 1 from midnight Monday [NZT]. In what is believed to be a first since the coronavirus pandemic put most professional sports on