6:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — In 1978, a 26-year-old aspiring football coach walked into a rather nondescript tan building on the city’s north side to start a job with the Denver Broncos. Bill Belichick has called his one season in Denver a “tremendous experience” filled with lessons he still uses today, with eight Super
IPL Points Table: Kagiso Rabada continues to lead Purple Cap race as Delhi Capitals went on top again.© BCCI/IPL Delhi Capitals beat Rajasthan Royals by 13 runs on Wednesday in Dubai to go on top of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 points table. Half-centuries from Shikhar Dhawan and Shreyas Iyer helped Delhi set a 162-run
France’s Arnaud Demare claimed his fourth win of the 2020 Giro d’Italia in a sprint finish on stage 11. The Groupama-FDJ rider held off Peter Sagan and Alvaro Jose Hodeg at the end of the 182km ride from Porto Sant’Elpidio to Rimini. Portugal’s Joao Almeida maintained his lead the overall race, 34 seconds ahead of
11:54 AM ET Nick DePaulaESPN In advance of the 2020 NBA Draft, top prospect LaMelo Ball has signed a multi-year shoe deal with Puma, immediately becoming a key face of the brand at just 19 years-old. “I am really excited to be joining the Puma family,” said LaMelo Ball. “I believe the brand is the
Mark Cavendish says he has no “desire to stop” racing, three days after appearing to suggest he was set to retire. The Manxman, 35, has struggled for form in recent seasons, when he has been affected by the Epstein-Barr virus. But he says rumours Wednesday’s one-day Scheldeprijs race would be cancelled contributed to his tearful
7:01 AM ET Courtney Cronin Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered the 49ers, Raiders and Warriors for the San Jose Mercury News. She joined ESPN in 2017. NFL Nation Welcome to NFL game day in the midst of a global coronavirus pandemic. Please remember to wash your hands, wear a mask and stay six feet apart.
6:10 AM ET The longest season in NBA history is finally complete. More than a full calendar year after teams reported to training camp, the Los Angeles Lakers were crowned champions, accepting the Larry O’Brien Trophy on Sunday night inside the NBA’s campus environment at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The NBA’s bubble was
10:13 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Top-seeded Fabio Fognini has withdrawn from the Sardinia Open after testing positive for COVID-19 and is now in isolation. The world No. 16 shared the news in an Instagram story, and the news was confirmed by the Italian Tennis Federation. Fognini played doubles on Tuesday and was slated to have
1:22 AM ET It is not the same. It is never the same when Paul Pogba is not there. Everyone in the France camp will tell you. After 16 months away from the French national team because of his long injury, because of the coronavirus pandemic, and because he contracted CODID-19 himself in September, the
7:45 AM ET Ever since her son died in August, Sarah Looney starts her day with a text message. “I will say, ‘Good morning, I hope you have a fabulous day. I love you,'” Sarah said. “And then I started doing this when D.J. passed away, do #beDJstrong. I send that to him every time.”
7:13 AM ET Teofimo Lopez Sr. was in a hotel lobby in New York City in December 2018. The world didn’t know it yet, but when he ran into Vasiliy Lomachenko — the two-time Olympic gold medalist, three-division world titlist and boxing’s pound-for-pound king — and extended his hand, Lopez’s plan for his son was
9:20 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Cris “Cyborg” Justino has for years expressed a burning desire to venture beyond mixed martial arts and test herself in professional boxing. But the fact that she will be facing a two-time boxing world champion on Thursday night is not what she’s most excited about for Bellator 249. “No, it’s
Hardik Pandya was out on the beach in the UAE.© Instagram Hardik Pandya, who is in the United Arab Emirates for the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League, took to Instagram to share a series of pictures from an outing to a beach. Sporting a black singlet and funky sunglasses, the Mumbai Indians all-rounder
9:30 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The PGA Tour stays in Las Vegas for an additional week, as the CJ Cup at Shadow Creek was moved from South Korea due to the pandemic. Who is underrated, and whom should you fade? What bets and props are worth a look? Sports betting analyst Chris “The Bear”
8:00 AM BST All Blacks assistant coach John Plumtree has heaped acid on referee Angus Gardner to deal with Australia’s off-the-ball tactics in the second Bledisloe Cup Test on Sunday. Firing up a long-standing rivalry with Wallabies coach Dave Rennie, Plumtree inferred the Australian tactics in the first Test in Wellington last Sunday were typical
2:50 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” ARLINGTON, Texas — For a National League Championship Series that seems to relish bringing the improbable to life, even this was outlandish. It was the ninth inning of Game 2, and Atlanta
7:15 AM ET The NHL free-agent frenzy was unprecedented this offseason — and not just because it took place when the regular season is usually scheduled to start. The new collective bargaining agreement kept the salary cap flat at $81.5 million. Otherwise, it would have plummeted, just as team revenues have during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japanese driver Yuki Tsunoda is to have his first Formula 1 test in an Alpha Tauri car at Imola on 4 November. Tsunoda, a protege of Alpha Tauri’s engine partner Honda, is a potential candidate for a race seat at the team next year. Tsunoda hopes to cover the 300km that would qualify him to