1:45 PM ET Associated Press So here’s a dose of realism — or surrealism — for the first video game tournament of the coronavirus pandemic involving professional tennis players: A match supposedly was postponed Monday because of Rafael Nadal‘s balky back, except the tournament director later admitted he was just kidding. That bit of silliness
1:23 PM ET LaMelo, Lonzo and LiAngelo Ball are planning to sign representation agreements with Jay-Z’s Sports Management company, Roc Nation Sports, according to Jermaine Jackson, LaMelo Ball’s manager. “This was a family decision,” Jackson told ESPN. “This is now an extended family. They put together a beautiful game plan with Jay-Z. The basketball game
12:13 AM IST Given that the charge against Umar Akmal dealt with a failure to report corrupt approaches, it was expected that his decision to not challenge it would lead to a relatively light sanction. Akmal, however, was banned for three years for this breach of PCB’s anti-corruption code. This is unprecedented. In similar cases
1:51 PM ET New England Patriots fullback James Develin announced his retirement from football on Monday, citing “unforeseen complications” from a neck injury that sidelined him for the majority of the 2019 season. The 31-year-old Develin, who was voted to the Pro Bowl in 2017, overcame long odds to break through in the NFL. After
7:30 AM ET If there’s one thing NHL scouts hate, it’s re-drafts. The reverse engineering and 20-20 hindsight makes it all too easy for us to ask “What if?” and point out where everyone went wrong in evaluations. But unfortunately for those scouts, that’s also what makes re-drafts fun exercises. There is no magic formula
12:08 PM ET The coronavirus pandemic has forced millions of people out of work. Many have looked for alternative ways to put food on the table and that situation is no different for former world titleholder Mario Rodriguez. After the gym in which he worked was closed because of the pandemic, Rodriguez decided to open
7:00 AM ET The 2020 NFL draft is over, but the offseason mileposts keep on coming. The next decision-making deadline comes Monday, by which time teams have to decide whether to pick up the fifth-year options for 2017 first-round picks. A refresher: Rookie contracts for NFL draft picks are four years long, but contracts for
12:25 PM ET ESPN News Services Longtime NHL forward Joel Ward announced his retirement on Monday. Ward, 39, last played in the NHL in 2018 for the San Jose Sharks. He went to training camp with Montreal in 2018-19 but was unable to get another shot and decided officially to end his career in an
12:29 PM ET Aaron Gordon has put his displeasure with the 2020 Dunk Contest into a “diss” track titled “9 OUT OF 10,” in which he calls out Dwyane Wade for the vote that helped him lose to Miami’s Derrick Jones Jr. In an epic dunk contest back in February, Gordon dunked over Chance the
12:37 PM ET Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh made a surprise virtual appearance to a group of schoolchildren in … Ohio. Harbaugh appeared on the morning announcements at St. Aloysius Catholic School in Bowling Green, Ohio, on Monday morning. Both Jim and John Harbaugh attended the school in the 1970s when their father, Jack, was an