1:17 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Churchill Downs on Tuesday released a preliminary list of races that could be used as an extension of the Road to the Kentucky Derby prep schedule, pending agreement by the host tracks. The 146th Derby was rescheduled for Sept. 5 from its traditional spot on the first
1:16 PM ET Associated Press Browns coach Kevin Stefanski can finally call Cleveland home. After delaying his family’s move from Minnesota because of the coronavirus pandemic, Stefanski, his wife and his young kids made the trip to Ohio over the weekend. “We did an 11-hour drive on Friday and powered through that,” he told ESPN’s
12:18 PM ET Steve KimESPN Boxing’s calendar is about to be booked up once again, according to Top Rank promoter Bob Arum. Arum said during a recent interview on IFL TV that he hopes to start making announcements on an upcoming schedule starting next week. “It’ll be all fighters who have either appeared on the
11:44 AM ET Atlanta Falcons coach Dan Quinn said the team has discussed having joint practices with both Miami and Buffalo, the first two opponents on the Falcons’ preseason schedule. Quinn cautioned that the decision isn’t final, however, with so much uncertainty regarding the coronavirus pandemic and how it will affect the timing of teams
11:15 AM ET NFL and club executives have agreed on a proposal to raise the debt limit for each team from $350 million to $500 million for the 2020 season, league and ownership sources told ESPN. The agreement, reached during a conference call Monday, is a response to the financial uncertainties caused by the coronavirus
10:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” This week is going to be ugly. There’s no getting around that. Every negotiation starts at opposite ends of a spectrum, and the chasm between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players
7:00 AM ET The American Hockey League canceled the remainder of its 2019-20 season on Monday — including the Calder Cup Playoffs — due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Like the NHL, the 31-team minor league had paused its season on March 12. AHL president and CEO David Andrews said that the league is “looking
9:14 AM ET The news that Sebastian Vettel will leave Ferrari at the end of the year leaves one very obvious question hanging over the remainder of 2020: who will replace him in 2021? As the most famous team in F1, Ferrari has the potential to lure almost any driver, and aside from Max Verstappen
7:37 PM IST Chris Gayle‘s disparaging remarks against his former franchise Jamaica Tallawahs in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) is likely to earn him some sort of sanction. Such a sanction, Cricket West Indies president Ricky Skerritt hinted, would be in order because Gayle probably brought “disrepute” to the league, which a contracted player cannot
7:00 AM ET IF THERE’S ONE thing that “The Last Dance” has demonstrated, it’s that Michael Jordan was nearly impossible to guard. But nearly as impossible was trying to score when Jordan was guarding you. “He’s the best superstar defender in the history of the game,” LA Clippers coach Doc Rivers says. As a player,