5:27 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Unable to yet reach a return-to-play agreement, Major League Baseball has discussed playing a shorter schedule in which it would pay members of the MLB Players Association their full prorated salaries, sources
Month: June 2020
6:52 PM ET When NBA journeyman Stephen Jackson met George Floyd — a 6-foot-6 former basketball player himself — for the first time, the resemblance between the two was so striking that both figured they might be related. “The first thing we both say: ‘Man, who’s your dad?'” Jackson told Marc Spears of ESPN’s The
1:30 PM ET Near the end of the NBA’s board of governors call on Friday, Oklahoma City Thunder owner Clay Bennett delivered an impassioned soliloquy on why the league and owners needed to consider the competitive and financial plights of smaller-market teams that could be left out of the season’s summer resumption in Orlando, Florida
5:29 PM ET Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — Defending national champion LSU has for the first time scheduled football games with Southern and Grambling State, athletic director Scott Woodward announced Monday. Both games involving the historically black Louisiana schools will be played in LSU’s Tiger Stadium, with Southern visiting on Sept. 10, 2022 and
6:03 PM ET USC added its second top-50 quarterback in the 2021 recruiting class Monday when ESPN 300 QB Miller Moss announced his commitment to the Trojans. Moss is the No. 37-ranked prospect overall and chose USC over Alabama, LSU and UCLA. He’s a 6-foot-2, 200-pound quarterback from Bishop Alemany High School in Mission Hills,
5:27 PM ET Major League Baseball intends to propose a shorter season in which the league would pay players a full, prorated share of their salaries, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The league believes the late March agreement to delay the start of the season allows MLB it to set the schedule, and that this
5:44 PM ET Las Vegas Raiders rookie receiver Henry Ruggs III, the team’s top draft pick, suffered a cut to his thigh recently while moving things into a trailer, his father told AL.com on Monday. A Raiders source said the team was “told [Ruggs] will be fine.” “He was trying to move a trailer or
10:53 AM ET ESPN News Services A judge has dismissed Lenny Dykstra’s defamation and libel lawsuit against Ron Darling, ruling that the former New York Mets outfielder’s “reputation for unsportsmanlike conduct and bigotry is already so tarnished that it cannot be further injured.” New York Supreme Court Judge Robert D. Kalish dismissed Dykstra’s lawsuit Friday.
4:28 PM ET Penn State quarterback Will Levis wanted to find a creative way to help during the coronavirus pandemic. So he came up with a fundraising strategy to match the times: a backward run. Levis on Saturday completed a 5-mile run backward and exceeded his goal by raising more than $3,800 for three organizations
5:17 PM ET Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said he has spent the past few days “listening” rather than releasing a statement about the numerous protests against police violence going on around the country, but on Monday he offered his thoughts on the issue during a teleconference with media. “We’ve had so much bad news. Everywhere