10:01 AM ET Nine Georgia Tech teams, including football and men’s and women’s basketball, will take the day off from mandatory activities on Election Day as a way to encourage their student-athletes to vote. The idea came from men’s basketball assistant Eric Reveno, who last week tweeted about an NCAA day off on Nov. 3.
8:37 AM ET New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees issued an apology Thursday for his comments on “disrespecting the flag,” saying he “completely missed the mark” on current issues in the United States. During an interview with Yahoo Finance on Wednesday, Brees reiterated his stance that he will “never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag
7:34 AM ET As nearly 5.8 million people tuned in to watch The Match between Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady against Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning, Mickelson confidently strolled up to the first tee and gave everyone at home a glimpse of what they were hoping to see — his calves. The man who has
7:04 AM ET On June 10, the evening of the 56th MLB first-year player draft, some happy amateur baseball star — probably Arizona State first baseman Spencer Torkelson — will become the 55th player to be picked first overall. Yes, there have been more drafts than players picked first. We’ll get to that. Assuming he
6:59 PM IST At the age of 27, Richard Gleeson had all but given up on his dream of playing cricket for a living. After a series of odd jobs for a boiler firm, at a fish-and-tackle shop and as a landscape gardener, he landed a coaching job at the Lancashire Cricket Board, which he
8:38 AM ET Florida State star defensive lineman Marvin Wilson disputed that new Seminoles coach Mike Norvell reached out to players individually to discuss last week’s death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and Wilson said he and his teammates would not be working out until further notice. During an interview with Athletic reporter Tashan Reed
7:59 AM ET Associated Press If it weren’t for a coronavirus pandemic-caused postponement, the French Open would have been in Week 2 now, and Rafael Nadal might still have been in contention for a 20th Grand Slam title. Instead, he’s home in Spain, practicing lightly — and wondering along with everyone else in tennis whether
6:00 AM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Even before Matt LaFleur began the review of his first season as the Green Bay Packers coach, he knew what he would see: an offense that, while proficient for most of the year, lacked punch. “If you look back at last season, I know that one area that
7:16 AM ET In the latest episode of the ESPN F1 Podcast, Alexis Nunes is joined by F1 journalists Laurence Edmondson and Nate Saunders to look back at the most explosive F1 rivalry of recent years. Listen to full-length podcast by clicking here Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were teammates at Mercedes between 2013 and
7:20 AM ET Today’s NHL is loaded with skill and talent up and down the ice. But what would the perfect player look like? Using the attributes of current NHL stars, we set out to create the perfect forward, defenseman and goaltender. We complete the series here by building the ultimate goaltender from 15 skills