8:09 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Indiana Pacers find themselves on the verge of elimination after losing 124-115 to the Miami Heat on Saturday afternoon to fall behind 3-0 in their best-of-seven first-round series. A major factor in the defeat was that the Heat went to the free throw line
6:41 PM ET Mike Milbury will not appear on NBC Sports’ coverage for the rest of the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs, he said Saturday. The news comes one day after the NHL condemned Milbury’s on-air comments that players aren’t as distracted because there are no women in the league’s bubble as “insensitive and insulting.” “In
7:16 PM ET NORTON, Mass. — Go ahead and try to figure out Dustin Johnson‘s play since golf returned from its three-month layoff because of the coronavirus pandemic. Fair warning: it might take you a while. He’s had a win and stunningly low rounds. He’s had missed cuts and head-scratching blow-up rounds. This week, he
Aug 21, 2020 The NCAA Division I board of directors voted Friday to give all fall sport student-athletes an additional year of eligibility and an additional year to complete it through a blanket waiver. The move eliminates a cloud of uncertainty for athletes in fall sports whose seasons have been postponed or could be disrupted
5:41 PM ET Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina has cleared football and multiple other sports to resume workouts after temporarily pausing all athletics activities earlier this week. The school announced the move Saturday, allowing some programs to resume activities Sunday. That list includes the men’s and women’s basketball teams, cross country, field
3:09 PM ET Associated Press DOVER, Del — Justin Allgaier held off a streaking Austin Cindric to win his first Xfinity Series race of the season Saturday at Dover International Speedway. Cindric had been the driver to beat, coming into Dover with a staggering five wins in the last six races, and he seemed in
4:00 AM ET When the Champions League returned post-lockdown, the one-legged format and general 2020 uncertainty suggested we were ripe for a string of upsets. And while some heavyweights — Manchester City, Juventus, Atletico Madrid — did fall to less illustrious opposition, we ended up with two super clubs in the final: Paris Saint-Germain and
2:00 PM ET NHL Insiders The 2020 NHL playoffs have been one of the more unique postseasons in recent history. From the eight extra teams vying for spots during the qualification round, to the fact that the games are being played in fanless arenas in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been quite the
1:38 PM ET NORTON, Mass. — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy walked off the 18th green early Saturday afternoon at The Northern Trust and looked like two men happy the day was done. After all, they had just spent a little less than five hours wandering around all parts of TPC Boston as Woods shot
11:23 PM ET It was a frigid winter December night in Boston and the Celtics had just polished off another division opponent behind the spirited efforts of their rejuvenated wunderkinds, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Two lockers over, Kemba Walker was beaming like a proud father. Boston’s prized free-agent acquisition, who managed to somehow transform