7:00 AM ET The impasse between Major League Baseball and its players over their discussions to restart training and the 2020 season was not resolved over the weekend. The union considered and temporarily held off voting whether to accept or reject the owner’s most recent offer of a 60-game season with an expanded, 16-team playoff
7:00 AM ET What was your assessment of Jorge Soler heading into the 2019 Major League Baseball season? A top prospect when the Cubs signed him out of Cuba, he had never been able to earn regular time in Chicago, was traded to the Royals, was demoted to the minors in 2017 and battled injuries.
6:00 AM ET New York Giants coach Joe Judge’s first impression of Daniel Jones was a good one. That means something, considering that the only starting quarterback Judge has watched work in the NFL is Tom Brady, perhaps the greatest of all time. It was also weeks — months even — after he was hired
7:39 AM ET [embedded content] Dustin Poirier versus Dan Hooker certainly has fight fans amped for UFC Fight Night on Saturday. The main event pits two ferocious strikers who, with a victory, will at least remain in the title hunt in a loaded lightweight division. Once interim champ Justin Gaethje and world titleholder Khabib Nurmagomedov
6:04 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The 2020 women’s T20 World Cup has officially become the most-watched women’s cricket event in history for that format. According to numbers released by the ICC on Monday, the tournament reached 89 million unique audience members globally, a 131% increase over the number for the 2018 edition, which was the
6:52 AM ET Australian Nick Kyrgios has labelled the decision to go ahead with the Adria Tour as “boneheaded” after Borna Coric became the second tennis player to confirm that he tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday. The exhibition event in Croatia, organised by world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, was cancelled on Sunday after
12:55 AM BST Former NFL punter Marquette King has perhaps not received the response he intended when tweeting that he’d dominate if he ever took to the rugby field. Tweeting on Saturday afternoon “If I played rugby I would dominate easily”, King was quickly brought back down to earth by former and current international rugby
6:00 AM ET With training camps scheduled to begin next month, the NFL is mandating that each team develop an Infectious Disease Emergency Response (IDER) Plan that sets forth the team’s protocols for containing an outbreak of COVID-19, according to a memo sent to all teams obtained by ESPN. The memo mandates that teams divide
5:28 AM ET Formula One will use the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix to launch a new initiative against racism, which includes a diversity and equality task force. On Monday F1 said it will return at the July 5 event with “added purpose” to recognise the issues facing modern society. Ahead of the start of the
3:37 AM BST Wallabies coach Dave Rennie says there are no guarantees Michael Hooper will be retained as captain, saying the selectors will first pick their team before settling on a leader. Speaking as part of a Zoom call ahead of his arrival in Australia next month, Rennie also admitted to disappointment over the departures