Jul 18, 2020 If the NBA is going to determine its awards for the 2019-20 season based on games played up to when it went on hiatus March 11, Los Angeles Lakers coach Frank Vogel thinks L.A.’s final weekend before the break should be seriously considered. The Lakers beat Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks,
1:37 PM ET A 2003-04 LeBron James Upper Deck rookie Patch Parallel card sold at auction for $1.845 million on Sunday at Goldin Auctions to Lob.com CEO Leore Avidar. The price tag on the rare card sets a record for modern-day cards (recognized as cards produced in 1980 or later) and is the most any
3:59 AM IST Not long after tea on the fourth day, it looked as if this Test was heading, as Stuart Broad put it, for a “bore draw”. West Indies required only 38 more runs to avoid the follow-on and had six wickets in hand. On a slow surface, it looked as if they could
3:15 PM ET Alabama has been one of the hottest teams on the recruiting trail since May, and that momentum continued Sunday when ESPN 300 offensive lineman T.J. Ferguson, ranked No. 78 overall, committed to the Crimson Tide. Ferguson is a 6-foot-4, 290-pound offensive lineman from Peach County High School in Fort Valley, Georgia, and
2:30 PM ET ESPN News Services Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby did not practice Sunday, a day after leaving a team scrimmage with an undisclosed health issue. The team captain and two-time NHL MVP scored during an organized scrimmage Saturday. Coach Mike Sullivan declined to offer specifics on what happened to Crosby in the immediate
12:20 PM ET ESPN 300 cornerback Jordan Hancock announced his commitment to Ohio State on Sunday. The No. 102-ranked prospect decommitted from Clemson on July 14, and is now a part of the Buckeyes’ class. Hancock, a 6-foot, 170-pound corner from North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, Georgia, originally committed to Clemson in March over
1:05 PM ET NFL players took to Twitter on Sunday in a coordinated effort to urge the NFL to listen to its experts’ guidelines on safely opening training camps amid the coronavirus pandemic. Many of the players used the hashtag #WeWantToPlay to accompany their tweets. NFL Players Association president JC Tretter tweeted: “What you are
1:24 PM BST England coach Eddie Jones has called on rugby union’s lawmakers to implement measures to speed up the game and increase fatigue, including reducing the number of permitted replacements in matches from eight to six. Jones said lengthy television reviews and debates with referees have provided players with extended breaks and prevented them
12:26 PM ET Associated Press Sidney Crosby was two months removed from lifting the Stanley Cup when he turned his attention to winning another championship. It was early September 2016, and the Pittsburgh Penguins captain stepped on the ice in Ottawa for Canada’s training camp ahead of the World Cup of Hockey. Players had gone
1:32 PM ET Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The first exhibition games of the NBA restart will go a little more quickly than usual. The NBA is tweaking the rules for those initial matchups, going with 10-minute quarters instead of the usual 12 minutes. The change is for several reasons, including not wanting