4:55 PM ET As ownership support grows for the idea, commissioner Adam Silver and the NBA board of governors continued discussions Friday about delaying the start of the 2020-2021 season until December, sources told ESPN. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NBA’s thinking and planning has progressed on the idea independent of whether the 2019-2020 season
4:20 PM ET Tennessee quarterback Brian Maurer, hoping to bring awareness to the importance of mental health, on Friday detailed in an Instagram post that he was planning to kill himself on Jan. 22 before receiving a phone call from his mother that day. “I thought I lost my battle with depression and my pain
8:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN Tyson Fury’s team might be hard at work trying to make a late 2020 fight against Anthony Joshua a reality, but Fury, the lineal heavyweight champion and WBC titleholder, has had his focus centered on home. He’s been making the most of his time the past six-plus weeks as the
3:54 PM ET ESPN News Services Major League Baseball and its umpires have reached a deal to cover a 2020 pay structure during the coronavirus pandemic, the MLB Umpires Association announced Friday. The umps will be paid a pro-rated share of their salaries based on games worked over a 182-day season, a source confirmed to
2:58 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN In the early hours of Sunday, April 26, after an extensive process of reviewing candidates, Arturas Karnisovas decided on the Chicago Bulls‘ new general manager, Marc Eversley. ESPN was re-airing the third and fourth episodes of “The Last Dance” docuseries chronicling Chicago’s last NBA championship team, and Eversley was watching
3:11 PM ET Jeremy Lin says he was surprised, humbled and ultimately grateful after the New York Knicks reached out to propose taking a week on MSG Network to showcase interviews and 2012 games related to the brief but memorable phenomenon that was “Linsanity.” In an interview with Rachel Nichols for ESPN’s The Jump that
3:28 PM ET Running back Chris Thompson is signing with the Jacksonville Jaguars, the team announced Friday. A source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler that Thompson was joining the team on a one-year contract. Thompson joins an uncertain Jaguars backfield, with sources having told ESPN’s Adam Schefter earlier this month that the team has had trade
2:44 PM ET Patrick Mahomes doesn’t yet have a long-term contract extension from the Kansas City Chiefs but said he’s confident an agreement will eventually be reached. “I want to be a Chief for a long time,” Mahomes said Friday. “I want to have a contract that says that and then I can go out
2:39 PM ET Former Mississippi State quarterback Keytaon Thompson is joining Virginia as a graduate transfer. Thompson, who entered the NCAA transfer portal last month, announced his destination Friday on Twitter, writing that he will have two years of eligibility at Virginia and pursue his master’s degree there. 🔶⚔️🔷😏 pic.twitter.com/JgPcP8MHlc — KT 🏧🤙🏽 (@Thompson_Kt5) May
2:40 PM ET Associated Press U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants baseball and football to get on the field, and he says big league opening day could take place around the start of July. “I think there will be a college football season. They may have nobody in the stands or reduced attendance, but