11:46 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving will make his season debut Wednesday night against the Indiana Pacers — but Nets coach Steve Nash didn’t want to reveal whether Irving would start or come off the bench. No matter what Nash decides to do, he is confident that Irving will play “a
11:10 AM ET CINCINNATI — Bengals running back Joe Mixon tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday and will not play in Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Browns, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Mixon’s test result came back Wednesday, sources said, and he becomes the seventh Bengals player on the active roster to be placed
10:09 AM ET Associated Press The NFL has issued a warning to teams that they could lose a draft pick and face significant fines if club representatives conduct themselves unprofessionally in interviews with draft prospects. In a memo obtained by The Associated Press that was sent to clubs on Wednesday, the league said a team
9:04 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri has said Alvaro Morata will not be allowed to leave the club this month after Barcelona made a move for the striker. ESPN revealed last week that Barca had made Morata their top target for the January transfer window after completing the €55 million
9:49 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Philippe Coutinho is open to leaving Barcelona this month and five Premier League clubs, including Aston Villa, have expressed an interest in signing him on loan, sources have told ESPN. Coutinho’s agent Kia Joorabchian is working in collaboration with Barca to find a new home for the Brazil
8:00 AM ET Arsenal qualified for the semifinals with a win over Sunderland last month, while Liverpool beat Leicester City. Visionhaus/Getty Images The first leg of the Carabao Cup semifinal clash between Arsenal and Liverpool has been postponed due to a coronavirus outbreak, it was announced. Liverpool cancelled their first-team training on Tuesday following a COVID-19
10:45 AM ET MLS expansion side St. Louis City has named Bradley Carnell, left, as manager. St. Louis City SC Major League Soccer expansion club St. Louis City SC has hired former New York Red Bulls assistant coach and former South Africa international defender Bradley Carnell to be the team’s first manager. The team will begin
7:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” MORE THAN A month into Major League Baseball’s lockout, well aware that the league and players haven’t had a single substantive negotiating session since the work stoppage began and that spring training
News Bangladesh Test captain “not surprised” that Ebadot Hossain stepped up with a six-for in the second innings Bangladesh captain Mominul Haque said that he kept insisting his bowlers focus only on bowling tightly, and not think about taking wickets on the fifth morning of the first Test against New Zealand. Although it may not
IT’S 12:31 P.M., and Ben Cansdale has been staring at five port-a-potties for a half hour. Cansdale is a member of a five-truck Modern Disposal Services crew, based in Buffalo, that is dispatched on game days to do what they call a “half-suck” when a home game kicks off. From the driver’s seat, Cansdale, 31,