6:25 PM ET Closer Mariano Rivera, designated hitter Edgar Martinez and starting pitchers Roy Halladay and Mike Mussina will be the newest members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Rivera became the first played to be unanimously voted into the Hall. The four were voted into the hall by the Baseball Writers Association of America
8:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The precipitous parity in the National Hockey League means trade-deadline forecasts are forever changing. ‘Twas a time when Alexander Edler of the Vancouver Canucks looked destined to be moved, but now there’s talk of him receiving an extension. Several teams jockeying with the Canucks for the final few playoff spots
4:43 PM ET A lightweight fight between Justin Gaethje and Edson Barboza will headline UFC Fight Night on March 30 in Philadelphia, the promotion announced Tuesday. After UFC flyweight champion Henry Cejudo’s 32-second finish of bantamweight champ TJ Dillashaw in their Jan. 19 superfight, the two titleholders have swapped spots in the ESPN pound-for-pound MMA
4:39 PM ET James Harden says he believes former Houston Rockets teammate Carmelo Anthony can still help a team and he hopes that the 10-time All-Star finds another home this season. The Houston Rockets have traded Carmelo Anthony and cash to the Chicago Bulls, who will eventually trade or waive the 34-year-old veteran, league sources
9:59 AM ET Demetrious Johnson has moved on from the UFC’s flyweight division just as much as it has moved on from him. The UFC’s 125-pound weight class took center stage last week, in a way it never did during Johnson’s six-year reign as champion. Henry Cejudo defended the title against TJ Dillashaw on the
3:00 AM ET Big Picture In case you’ve missed any of the memos from the ECB in recent months, 2019 is a moderately significant year for English cricket. The small matter of a home World Cup, closely followed by the Ashes, offers the sport a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to regain some of the relevance that it
9:45 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The slow, excruciating bleeding out of Barry Bonds’ and Roger Clemens’ candidacies for the National Baseball Hall of Fame continued Tuesday. It is the personification of death by paper cut. For three
4:30 PM ET Dallas Mavericks forward Luka Doncic was fined $10,000 Tuesday for kicking the game ball into the stands on Saturday. Doncic was ejected for the incident, which occurred with 3:00 remaining in the third quarter of the Mavericks’ 111-99 loss to the Indiana Pacers. The gesture earned the rookie his second technical foul
4:04 PM GMT ESPN staff Daan Human has joined the Bulls in a unique first for South African rugby, working as scrum coach for both the Super Rugby franchise and South African Guinness PRO14 side the Cheetahs. The former Stormers, Toulouse and South Africa prop will assist the Bulls two days a week while continuing
3:44 PM ET Former middleweight world titlist Billy Joe Saunders had his six-month suspension for a failed drug tested lifted by the WBO and the sanctioning organization named him its 160-pound mandatory title challenger in a ruling it issued Tuesday. Despite a Round 1 TKO loss in his last bout and not much success as