10:01 AM ET ESPN News Services Former Washington Bullets player and coach Wes Unseld died Tuesday morning, according to his family. He was 74. The family said in a statement that Unseld had lengthy health issues, most recently with pneumonia. “He was the rock of our family — an extremely devoted patriarch who reveled in
Month: June 2020
2:55 AM ET Auburn football had attained some stature before Pat Dye arrived to coach the Tigers in 1981. John Heisman coached there. Shug Jordan won a national championship in 1957. But days after the Tigers finished No. 1, Bear Bryant heard Mama calling from Alabama. By the time Jordan’s successor, Doug Barfield, was fired
6:00 AM ET ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Las Vegas Raiders are in the ultimate hurry-up-and-wait mode. Sure, they officially rebranded themselves with a renaming ceremony in the shadow of Allegiant Stadium on Jan. 22. And plans were for the team to hold its draft, rookie minicamp and OTAs at its Alameda facility before holding mandatory
6:00 AM ET Check out the latest NFL Power Rankings from any outlet, including ESPN’s most recent one, and the theme surrounding the 2020 version of the New England Patriots is hard to miss. They’re worse. Few, if any, are buying the Patriots as a clear-cut Super Bowl LV contender, let alone the favorite in
12:28 PM ET UFC strawweight champion Zhang Weili doesn’t have her next fight booked yet, but if it were up to her she would fight a former champion. Zhang told ESPN on Thursday that her preference is to next fight Rose Namajunas, who held the belt from November 2017 to May 2019. “I would fight
7:51 PM ET The UFC has kept its heavyweight main event between Curtis Blaydes and Alexander Volkov on June 20 but at a new location, promotion officials announced Saturday. Blaydes (13-2) and Volkov (31-7) were initially scheduled to headline UFC Fight Night on June 20 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, but the event at that location was
8:35 AM ET New York Rangers prospect K’Andre Miller addressed the racist treatment he received while being introduced to the team’s fans in April, saying it was another example of his challenge to be accepted as a black hockey player. “I struggle because I’ve never been fully accepted by either the black community or the
9:23 AM ET In 2007, the WTA announced that upon revisiting the rankings data for 1976. Evonne Goolagong — a multiple Grand Slam singles champion who had never reached the No. 1 ranking — should have been in the top spot ahead of Chris Evert for two weeks in 1976, officially altering the record 31
7:00 AM ET Is all of the recent acrimony between MLB players and owners real or the byproduct of the early stages of the 2020 season’s negotiations playing out in the public spotlight? When recently asked that question, one baseball official’s reply was, “Yes.” Yes, as in both things are true. It’s with that backdrop
12:02 AM ET The UFC has a newly minted welterweight contender. Gilbert Burns defeated former champion Tyron Woodley via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-44, 50-44) in a complete performance Saturday night in the main event of UFC Las Vegas. Burns nearly finished Woodley in the opening minutes and never let his foot off the gas pedal,