2:40 PM ET Michael Jordan is now a NASCAR team owner. Maybe it reads strange. Maybe it sounds strange. But the road to making that sentence a reality isn’t as nearly as long or as rocky as most might think. On Monday night, the sports world was buzzing when news broke that Jordan was entering
2:34 PM ET Associated Press MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Mike Davis spent the past decade running the USGA, where he set up golf courses to provide an extreme test for elite players and searched for solutions to increasing distance. Now he wants to build golf courses, a lifelong passion. Davis announced Tuesday he will retire as
3:08 PM BST The 2020 women’s Six Nations championship will resume with round four matches on Oct. 25, seven months after the tournament was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers announced. Both the men’s and women’s competitions were suspended in March, with four matches in the men’s event still to be completed and six
2:16 PM ET NBA commissioner Adam Silver says his “best guess” is that the league will not begin its next season until 2021, emphasizing that “the goal is to play a standard season.” Silver discussed the NBA’s plans for the 2020-21 season amid the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday as part of a wide-ranging interview with CNN.
2:13 PM ET The Indianapolis Colts placed wide receiver Parris Campbell and safety Malik Hooker on injured reserve Tuesday. On Monday, coach Frank Reich said Campbell would “miss some time” with a MCL/PCL injury in his left knee. Campbell will be out at least until Week 6 as a trip to the injured reserve this
1:09 PM ET Notre Dame will not practice Tuesday afternoon after four players tested positive for COVID-19 in the team’s latest round of testing, a source told ESPN. The program on Monday announced the four positive results out of testing last week as well as six other players being placed in quarantine because of contact
1:39 PM ET Associated Press Belmont Stakes winner Tiz the Law won’t run in next month’s Preakness, spoiling what would have been a highly anticipated rematch with Kentucky Derby winner Authentic. The Preakness on Oct. 3 at Pimlico concludes this year’s reconfigured Triple Crown series, which was run out of order because of the coronavirus
1:02 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Bianca Andreescu, the 2019 US Open champion, announced on Tuesday she will not be playing in the upcoming French Open and will sit out the remainder of the 2020 season. “I have come to the difficult decision to skip the clay court swing this year and will be taking the
11:52 AM BST Sale Sharks staged a late comeback to beat Harlequins 27-19 in the re-arranged Premiership Rugby Cup final, lifting their first silverware since 2006. A try and penalty late on from South African brothers Dan du Preez and Robert du Preez put Sale ahead, with back row Faf de Klerk sealing the winner
7:45 AM ET A dear friend, a baseball purist in his late 70s, called recently. He was distressed. “For the first time in 70 years,” he said, “I don’t care about baseball.” He wasn’t angry. He was hurt and sad that the game he loves wasn’t delivering — it had somehow let him down. I