9:55 PM ET Dan Graziano Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPN in 2011 New Jersey native and author of two published novels Kevin Seifert Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN.com national NFL writer ESPN.com NFC North reporter, 2008-2013 Covered Vikings for Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1999-2008 It has been 110 days since Jeff Pash, the NFL’s executive
9:24 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN In Milwaukee Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer‘s mind, the pick for NBA MVP is an easy choice: Giannis Antetokounmpo. When the league told teams on Friday that the races for MVP and other regular-season individual awards are over — ahead of the NBA restart in Orlando, Florida — the decision came
6:29 PM ET Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The NBA’s MVP race is over. So is the battle for every other individual regular-season trophy. The league told teams Friday that none of the seeding games will be taken into consideration for any postseason award, and that voting for those honors — such as
6:25 PM ET DUBLIN, Ohio — Bryson DeChambeau had his worst-ever score on a hole when he had a quintuple-bogey 10 on the par-5 15th hole during the second round of the Memorial Tournament on Friday. To make matters worse, the score took DeChambeau from safely inside the cut line to missing the weekend at
7:58 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Tony Finau figured he was on the right track when he shot 59 at Victory Ranch last week in Utah. That kind of score isn’t happening at Muirfield Village, where the greens are getting firmer by the hour. Finau still took enough confidence from playing with his
10:07 AM ET In LAFC‘s two years of existence, the club has quickly become one of the most important in Major League Soccer. From its downtown stadium and raucous atmosphere to its appealing style of play and single-season MLS points record, the club has been an unmitigated success. Those facts don’t exactly drum up much
6:15 PM ET As the scheduled start of NFL training camps draws closer, the league and the players’ union on Friday unveiled some of the steps they’re taking to educate players and team personnel about how the league plans to operate during the coronavirus pandemic. Assuming there is a season and teams travel to and
4:36 PM ET Indiana has paused voluntary workouts for football after six participants tested positive for COVID-19 this week. The pause in workouts is only for the football program and the Indiana athletics department emphasized it does not impact individuals who have been cleared to participate in voluntary workouts from the Indiana men’s and women’s
2:54 PM ET Southeastern Conference athletes who choose not to play fall sports because of health and safety concerns surrounding COVID-19 will have their scholarships honored, the league announced Friday. SEC presidents and chancellors unanimously approved the decision, which had been recommended by the league’s athletic directors. The Big Ten and Pac-12 both previously announced
7:25 AM ET We left the NBA just after trade and buyout season. Top teams were incorporating new players and adjusting after injuries. Here are 13 new or newish lineups I’m excited to watch when the games start. Shake Milton (!), Josh Richardson, Ben Simmons, Tobias Harris, Joel Embiid: 0 minutes. Just when I think
2:22 PM ET Associated Press Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a pilot struggled to open a crashed airplane’s wing emergency exit as the aircraft began to burn and fill with smoke before the retired race car driver and his family managed to escape from the main door, according to new details about the 2019 accident released
7:00 AM ET There’s more uncertainty than ever for the 2020 season, but that means the most uncertain part of a typical season — young players — are even more unpredictable than usual. With scouts not permitted to be at games, no formal stats and limited information from workouts, we have little idea what players
1:49 AM IST West Indies 32 for 1 (Brathwaite 6*, Joseph 14*) trail England 469 for 9 dec. (Stokes 176, Sibley 120, Chase 5-172) by 437 runs Ben Stokes and Dom Sibley picked up where they left off on the opening day to guide England into a commanding position at the end of the second
4:44 AM BST ESPN staff New Zealand Rugby hopes to set up a new competition involving “eight to ten” teams after it unveiled the major findings of its Aratipu review on Friday, with the establishment of a Pacific Island outfit a key objective. NZ Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson said the board had ratified a
1:56 PM ET Associated Press Colonial Athletic Association football became the latest domino to tumble in college football, announcing on Friday it will not have a conference schedule this fall because of concerns over the global coronavirus pandemic. The 12 members of the conference, however, are allowed to pursue independent schedules. The latter scenario is
Jul 15, 2020 Timothy Fiorvanti Four days removed from her victory over Jessica Andrade at UFC 251, Rose Namajunas says she is looking forward to an opportunity to fight Zhang Weili and regain the UFC strawweight championship. The fight left Namajunas, who won by split decision, with several noticeable injuries to her face, including a
1:12 PM ET UFC strawweight contender Rose Namajunas had successful nose surgery Friday, her team told ESPN. Namajunas told ESPN she broke her nose in the third round of her eventual split decision victory over Jessica Andrade last weekend at UFC 251. The win marked her first in over two years. Namajunas, 28, had not
1:14 PM ET Goaltenders Connor Hellebuyck of the Winnipeg Jets, Tuukka Rask of the Boston Bruins and Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning are the three finalists for the 2019-20 Vezina Trophy, it was announced Friday. The NHL’s general managers cast ballots to determine the league’s “goaltender judged to be the best at his