12:37 PM ET For weeks now, the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody have been taking place all over the world. And the actions of the protesters have sparked long-overdue conversations about racial inequality and police brutality. Soccer is taking part in that dialogue. Players such as Columbus Crew
2:17 PM ET Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt says running back Tim Jordan is no longer on the team after he was arrested May 30 in Florida on gun and marijuana charges. Jordan would have been a senior for the Volunteers, and the native of Bartow, Florida, played in 12 games
2:39 PM ET Alabama and Ohio State have scheduled a home-and-home football series for 2027-28, the schools announced on Thursday. The Buckeyes will host the first game in Columbus on Sept. 18, 2027, before traveling to Tuscaloosa the following season on Sept. 9, 2028. It will be the first time they’ve met outside of a
1:33 PM ET ESPN News Services It will be lights, cameras, Los Angeles again for “Hard Knocks,” but for the first time the show will feature two franchises. With the Rams and Chargers both moving into SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, HBO and NFL Films announced Thursday that the show will include both teams as
2:17 PM ET Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Gerald McCoy is urging current and former teammates to walk 2.5 miles on Friday in support of Opal Lee’s quest to make Juneteenth a national holiday. McCoy took to Instagram on Thursday to make his pledge for the 93-year-old Lee, who is set to walk 2.5 miles each
2:07 PM ET Free-agent wide receiver Josh Gordon applied for reinstatement to the NFL on Wednesday, a source confirmed to ESPN. Gordon was suspended indefinitely by the NFL on Dec. 16 for violations of the league’s policies on performance-enhancing substances and substances of abuse. It was his sixth suspension since the 2013 season and the
12:53 PM ET Texas says that 13 football players have confirmed positive coronavirus test results or are presumed positive, according to Allen Hardin, the school’s senior associate athletics director for sports medicine and performance. Texas says all 13 players are now self-isolating and 10 more identified through contact tracing are in self-quarantine but asymptomatic at
1:28 PM BST The PRO14 has targeted a return date of Aug. 22 with a series of local derbies as part of a shortened 2019-20 season that will shed six rounds of group play, organisers said on Thursday. The competition, which features club sides from Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Italy and South Africa, has been cut
1:29 PM ET The University of Florida will no longer allow its “Gator Bait” cheer at sporting events because of “historic racist imagery associated with the phrase,” school president Kent Fuchs announced Thursday. As part of a university-wide review to help the school take steps against racism, Fuchs highlighted the cheer as action that will
Jun 18, 2020 Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — A statue of African American tennis legend Arthur Ashe on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, has been vandalized with the words “White Lives Matter.” Photos show the base of the monument tagged with white spray paint and the words “White Lives Matter” as well as the initials