7:00 AM ET John Tortorella gathered around his Columbus Blue Jackets for their first day of training camp in the NHL’s restarted season. The famously direct coach explained what he expected from them under the league’s COVID-19 “return to play” protocols. “We don’t want a bunch of drama. We’re trying to win a Stanley Cup,”
9:35 PM ET The Sacramento Kings will be without Marvin Bagley III for the remainder of the season after an MRI revealed a lateral right foot sprain. The second-year forward out of Duke was hurt during an intrasquad scrimmage on Sunday, landing on a teammate’s foot after going up for a rebound. The team says
6:00 AM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — To say the past year has been a whirlwind for San Francisco 49ers running back Raheem Mostert would be quite the understatement. In roughly 12 months, Mostert signed a three-year contract extension with the Niners, welcomed his first son, returned from a forearm injury, became the team’s best
8:50 AM BST Rugby Australia boss Rob Clarke has taken another shot at sections of Australia’s rugby league media amid the contract tug-o-war for Joseph Suaalii, as the code attempts to keep the talented multi-sport athlete in the 15-man game. Reports that Suaalii had changed his mind and rejected a three-year deal from South Sydney
8:00 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn wants to stage the UK’s first professional boxing show with fans for six months on Sept. 12. Hearn is planning
8:38 AM ET Lewis Hamilton leads the Formula One world championship after three races and Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas already looks like the only man who can deny the Briton a record-equalling seventh title. That at least is the view of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc, whose own hopes of building on last
10:33 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Kansas City, Kansas, on Thursday for the Super Start Batteries 400 Presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts. Austin Dillon held on for his first Cup series victory of the season on Sunday in Fort Worth, Texas. Who will take the checkered flag under the
1:50 AM ET Former UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker is confident of silencing his critics this weekend when he makes his long awaited return to the Octagon. On Saturday night [Sunday afternoon AEST], the Australian will face Britain’s Darren Till [18-2-1] — who is making just his second appearance at 185 pounds — on Fight
7:29 AM ET MIKE BROWN WAS sitting at a desk in Jorge Masvidal‘s Las Vegas hotel room. It was July 5, hours before Brown was scheduled to accompany Masvidal on a flight to “Fight Island” for UFC 251. While Brown, one of American Top Team’s head MMA coaches, was on his laptop, Masvidal’s manager, Abe
3:30 AM BST ESPN staff South African rugby will not be left without high-level provincial and international competition because of coronavirus-related concerns, national union chief executive Jurie Roux says. Roux was asked on a media call if New Zealand Rugby’s plans for an eight- or 10-team Super Rugby 2021 competition without Argentina’s Jaguares and the