10:21 AM ET China’s CCTV announced it plans to televise Game 5 of the NBA Finals live, the first NBA game on broadcast television there in more than a year. The state-run network, which started carrying NBA games in the early 1990s, pulled all such games from its programming in the wake of Houston Rockets
Month: October 2020
7:10 AM ET Almost every competitive playoff series reaches a point of strategic equilibrium. All the big adjustments have been made. All that is left is to rearrange the fringes: making tiny rotation tweaks; layering counter atop counter to sets the opponent has smothered in their basic forms; varying the location of those sets. It
1:38 PM ET Zlatan Ibrahimovic has recovered from the coronavirus and is available for the derby against Inter Milan, AC Milan said on Friday. Ibrahimović tested positive for COVID-19 last month. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)– Serie A on ESPN+: Stream LIVE games and replays (U.S. only)– Insider Notebook: Man United
12:59 PM ET Adriana Garcia Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Cristiano Ronaldo‘s home in Funchal was broken into on Wednesday morning while the Juventus forward was on international duty with Portugal, Madeira police told ESPN. The thief entered the renovated seven-story luxury house that Ronaldo owns in Madeira’s capital through the garage after it
2:02 PM ET After acquiring goaltender Matt Murray from the Penguins two days ago, the Ottawa Senators have signed him to a four-year, $25 million deal, according to multiple reports. Ottawa sent forward prospect Jonathan Gruden and a second-round draft pick to Pittsburgh in the deal. The Senators said that they wouldn’t be re-signing longtime
2:04 PM ET Free-agent goaltender Anton Khudobin, a career backup who helped lead the Dallas Stars to the Stanley Cup Final, has re-signed with the team, it was announced Friday. The three-year deal is worth $10 million, the team said. “Anton’s play over the past two seasons has been nothing short of exceptional,” general manager
2:24 PM ET British Open champion Shane Lowry and local favourite Matthew Fitzpatrick both fired seven-under-par 65s in the second round of the BMW PGA Championship to share the lead at the halfway stage on Friday. The duo, who were tied for third after matching opening rounds of 67 on Thursday, went 12-under for the
8:19 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim You might not think so while watching a particularly brutal fight, but MMA is a pretty forgiving sport. Barely 16 months ago, Marlon Moraes was knocked out by Henry Cejudo in his bid to become UFC men’s bantamweight champion. Moraes later suffered a different sort of indignity, defeating Jose Aldo
11:44 PM IST Saurabh Somani Close Saurabh Somani is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo Delhi Capitals 184 for 8 (Hetmyer 45, Stoinis 39, Archer 3-24) beat Rajasthan Royals 138 all out (Tewatia 38, Jaiswal 34, Rabada 3-35, Stoinis 2-17, Ashwin 2-22) by 46 runs It turns out, you can defend a score of less than
1:10 PM ET Associated Press Football clubs spent nearly $1.9 billion less than last year on international player transfers during the European summer transfer window, according to FIFA research published Friday. Disruption to the football industry from the coronavirus pandemic extended trading by five weeks into October. It also took billions of dollars out of