6:58 AM ET Jack Nicklaus never had the opportunity to face world number one Rory McIlroy at the Open Championship but the R&A has brought the champions from different eras together at St Andrews using archive footage and modern technology. With golf’s oldest major cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the R&A has launched ‘The
Month: July 2020
5:28 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has said it’s his obligation to renew Lionel Messi‘s contract before his mandate expires next summer. Messi’s deal is also up in 2021 and a report on Spanish radio last week suggested the forward is once again considering his future at Camp Nou.
5:48 AM ET Manchester City and Juventus have moved ahead of Barcelona in pursuit of Wolves winger Adama Traore, sources have told ESPN, with the 24-year-old set to spark a summer transfer battle if Nuno Espirito Santo’s team fail to qualify for the Champions League. Traore, who moved to Wolves from Middlesbrough in an £18
1:13 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Last month, when former Major League Baseball All-Star Torii Hunter said he had been called the N-word “a hundred times” at Boston’s storied Fenway Park, the Red Sox were quick to back him up with a promise to fight racism. “Torii Hunter’s experience is real,” the team
1:17 PM IST Press Trust of India Punjab Police arrested alleged bookmaker Ravinder Dandiwal on Monday in connection with a recent T20 match played in Mohali but streamed online as a game hosted in Sri Lanka. The game, held in June, had caught the attention of BCCI’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), the police and Sri Lanka
11:37 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard told CNN on Monday night that he will join the team in Orlando for the restart of the NBA season. “I feel like we have a great opportunity, the Lakers do, for winning the title this year … Yes, I will be joining my team in
11:01 PM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. NEW YORK — All-Star outfielder Aaron Judge is one of the many Yankees that have benefited from this 3½ months hiatus, declaring himself “game ready” after the first instrasquad game at Yankee Stadium on Monday night. Major League Baseball’s
10:21 PM ET Former Boston Red Sox general manager Dave Dombrowski has joined Music City Baseball LLC, a Nashville-based group intent on bringing Major League Baseball back to the city. The group lists Dombrowski as a baseball adviser on its website. “It’s clear to me that Nashville is ready for Major League Baseball, and Music
6:04 PM ET The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association have reached a tentative agreement on a Return to Play plan to restart the 2019-20 season, and a memorandum of understanding that adds an additional four years to the term of the current collective bargaining agreement. The next step in the process is the voting.
9:37 PM ET After already having completed eight events in the coronavirus era, the UFC is promising even tighter protocols on what has been dubbed “Fight Island.” In addition to significantly more testing than the UFC has done so far, those involved in the four events this month on Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island will be