8:30 AM ET UConn, which last month officially left the American Athletic Conference ahead of its return to the Big East Conference, announced Wednesday that its suspending its football program for the 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. UConn, which went 2-10 in its final season in the AAC, is the first FBS program
Month: August 2020
7:40 AM ET ESPN News Services The Chicago White Sox lost both rookie second baseman Nick Madrigal and designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion to left shoulder injuries during Tuesday’s 3-2 victory against the Milwaukee Brewers. The 23-year-old Madrigal left the game in the third inning after he was thrown out trying to get from first to
8:59 AM ET As the sport continues to pick up amid the coronavirus pandemic, some of the fights added to the boxing schedule for the second half of the year are real head-scratchers. Mike Tyson’s return to the ring after 15 years away, at the age of 54, to fight 51-year-old Roy Jones Jr. tops
7:02 AM ET The hearing into Renault’s protest over the legality of Formula One rival’s Racing Point’s 2020 car will take place at Silverstone today. Renault has lodged an identical protest after the last three F1 races. The protest revolves around concerns about Racing Point’s collaboration with Mercedes, notably around the design of the brake
5:27 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The ICC is looking for a biosecurity manager for the women’s 50-over World Cup, as planning continues for an event around which there remains a fair amount of uncertainty. The World Cup is scheduled to take place in New Zealand in February and March 2021, but the ICC is yet
7:05 AM ET The warning came at the tail end of a quick phone call to the doctor. Catherine Clawson missed her regular check-up with her oncologist this spring because the coronavirus pandemic disrupted her schedule, and she wanted to set a new date for a visit. Clawson had seen her doctor every 3-6 months
7:00 AM ET Pedro GomezMLB Close ESPN’s Pedro Gomez covered the Oakland A’s home and away nearly every day from 1992-97 for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee and then became the national baseball writer and later a general columnist at the Arizona Republic before becoming an ESPN bureau reporter in 2003. The
7:10 AM ET Like other players in the NHL’s “bubble,” Ryan Hartman of the Minnesota Wild watched a lot of postseason hockey during the first few days of the restarted 2019-20 season. He couldn’t help but notice an obvious trend during his viewing binge. “A lot — a lot — of penalties were being called,”
7:18 AM ET Even though there will be no fans and no roars, this PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park won’t lack drama. There’s Tiger Woods, and whether his back will hold up. There’s Brooks Koepka, and whether he can win the Wanamaker Trophy for the third straight year. Here’s a look at all the
11:23 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim “Wow!” Dana White said, and that was all the UFC president needed to say. He was being interviewed in order to reveal if any of the eight fighters who competed in Tuesday’s opening episode of Season 4 of “Dana White’s Contender Series” were going to be awarded UFC contracts. Through