8:25 PM ET After a conference call with the NBA on Tuesday night, the National Basketball Coaches Association told ESPN its full membership is prepared to participate in the upcoming NBA season despite high rates of coronavirus infection and spread in many parts of the country. “As we enter the season, all of the protocols
Dec 7, 2020 LOS ANGELES — LeBron James says that the most satisfying part of the two-year, $85 million contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers that he signed last week isn’t the money. It isn’t the fact that it assures him 20 seasons in the NBA. It isn’t the pride in knowing that he
6:49 PM GMT Former England hooker Steve Thompson has blamed a lack of protection in his playing days for his diagnosis of early onset dementia and said he can no longer remember winning the 2003 Rugby World Cup. Thompson, who made 73 appearances for England from 2002-2011, revealed his diagnosis in an interview with The
3:50 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — First basemen Freddie Freeman of the Atlanta Braves and Jose Abreu of the Chicago White Sox have won Hank Aaron Awards as the outstanding offensive performers in each league as voted by MLB.com. Freeman, 31, was second in the NL in batting (.341), OBP (.462), slugging
3:23 PM ET Associated Press Dick Allen, a fearsome hitter who was a seven-time All-Star, the 1964 NL Rookie of the Year and the 1972 AL MVP, has died. He was 78. The Philadelphia Phillies, the team Allen started out with, announced his death on Monday. Phillies statement on the passing of Dick Allen: pic.twitter.com/KCWIYLEJEj
3:53 PM GMT Former England captain Chris Robshaw and scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth are among 13 players who have been hit with suspensions for their COVID-19 breaches which saw the Barbarians’ fixture against England cancelled. The game was set to take place in October but was called off after a number of Barbarians players breached COVID-19
5:02 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR already has started adjusting the 2021 calendar. The first three races of the season, which begins Feb. 14 with the Daytona 500, all will be held in Florida now. NASCAR shifted the February race scheduled for Fontana, California, to the road course at Daytona International Speedway. It swapped the
Dec 8, 2020 Argentina won’t forget their 2020 tour of Australia anytime soon. The Pumas’ Tri Nations campaign may have come to a disappointing end on Saturday, when the curtain came down on the tournament at Bankwest Stadium, but the 16-all draw against Australia will be merely a footnote of their rollercoaster few months Down
2:55 PM ET Associated Press Sofia Kenin collected the WTA Player of the Year award on Tuesday after winning the Australian Open in January for her first Grand Slam title and finishing as the runner-up at the French Open in October. The 22-year-old from Florida went 16-2 at the three major tournaments played in 2020
6:56 AM ET Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has said the club would be “lost” without the youngsters who have stepped up and filled the void left by their injured stars. The Premier League champions have suffered a lengthy casualty list this term with Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez potentially out for the rest of