8:00 AM ET NEW YORK — Competitive baseball is back. Even if it’s virtual in nature. In a joint effort with the MLB Players Association and Sony Interactive Entertainment, Major League Baseball is launching the first competitive MLB The Show league featuring players from all 30 teams competing in a 29-game regular season, the league
7:00 AM ET Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan As Chase Young prepares for the NFL draft, there’s one thing opposing Big Ten players and coaches can
6:58 AM ET Maurice Hamilton Close • Veteran F1 journalist, covering the sport since 1977• Motor racing correspondent for the Observer for 20 years• Has written several books and covered F1 for BBC Radio 5 Live On one Sunday in April 1993, Ayrton Senna passed four cars on the first lap — in the rain — and took
5:03 AM ET The all-electric Formula E series has postponed for a year the introduction of its new Gen2 Evo car as part of cost-saving measures agreed unanimously by teams, manufacturers and the governing body. The series said in a statement on Thursday it had acted to promote the long-term financial stability of the championship
3:37 AM ET Former World No. 1 Andy Murray and three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber will compete in a virtual Madrid Open, the WTA and ATP announced on Thursday. The Madrid Open was due to be played on May 1-10 but was cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 1 Related Announced alongside Murray
4:46 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Australia were “out of control” well before the ball-tampering scandal two years ago according to former international umpire Ian Gould who has recalled his role in the infamous Newlands Test. Gould, who retired from the international game after last year’s World Cup, was the TV official during the Cape Town
1:03 AM ET Associated Press The man at the heart of the Maple Leaf Gardens sexual abuse scandal has died. Gordon Stuckless died Thursday night at a hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, after a brain hemorrhage Tuesday, lawyer Ari Goldkind said. Stuckless was in his early 70s. Stuckless was sentenced in 2016 to 6½ years in
12:24 AM ET The semifinals for the NBA 2K Players Tournament are set for Saturday and each will feature a player from the Phoenix Suns and the LA Clippers in the two head-to-heads to determine the finalists. After quarterfinal action Thursday on ESPN2, four players came out victorious: Suns guard Devin Booker, Clippers big man
8:32 PM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi Despite the UFC pulling out all the spots to try and make it happen, UFC 249 will no longer happen April 18. On Thursday, UFC president Dana White told ESPN’s
9:05 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN New Orleans Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin said his team’s “best basketball” was ahead of it when the NBA season was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. On a conference call with reporters Thursday, Griffin pointed out that the Pelicans were rounding into shape at a