7:25 AM ET We finally have a little more clarity on the 2020 NHL draft thanks to the recent announcement from commissioner Gary Bettman. While we had been preparing for a potential early-June draft, there’s going to be some more time to sort this class out. But if you’re rooting for one of the seven
7:15 AM ET The 2021 NFL draft is still 11 months away, and the 2020 draftees haven’t played a pro down yet. But it’s never too early to start looking ahead, and I’m getting a head start on film for next year’s class. And what a class it has the potential to be. Three quarterbacks
7:00 AM ET College football is a beautiful connection of sport and weird history. Using Mark Schlabach’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 assembled in February and some help from my colleagues, I’ve collected each team’s strangest historical fact, or simply a weird thing that happened. Some of these are going to be more recent (and surprising) than
7:00 AM ET Playing baseball is hard. Drafting baseball players might be even harder. To call the MLB draft a crapshoot isn’t exactly accurate because scouts and front offices actually do a really good job. It’s just that invariably there are going to be a lot of misses along the way. What follows is a
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10:17 AM IST Australia allrounder Annabel Sutherland is hoping more than two months away from cricket will actually help improve her game as she looks to build on a rapid rise to the national set-up earlier this year. During a whirlwind few months, Sutherland was named in Australia’s T20 World Cup squad before she had
1:03 AM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Two horses from the barn of two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert have tested positive for a banned substance, according to multiple reports. The New York Times and Louisville Courier-Journal on Tuesday cited unidentified sources in reporting the positive tests occurred during the recent meet at Oaklawn
11:08 PM ET ESPN News Services CONCORD, N.C. — Chase Elliott snapped Kyle Busch‘s seven-race Truck Series winning streak and collected a $100,000 bounty for beating NASCAR’s most successful truck driver Tuesday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Kevin Harvick announced before the race he would donate $50,000 to Covid-19 relief for any full-time Cup driver
4:44 PM ET Jeff Passan Close ESPN ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Jesse Rogers Close ESPN Staff Writer Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Major League Baseball has proposed cutting the salaries of the highest-paid players in
6:31 PM ET The Oakland Athletics, feeling the financial crunch of a 2020 season that has yet to get off the ground, have implemented a system of furloughs and salary reductions that will impact the majority of their baseball-operations department, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Professional scouts will be furloughed next week and amateur scouts