6:17 AM ET NBA Insiders How well will the top teams in the NBA restart answer their big questions heading into the postseason? We polled the ESPN Forecast panel of 40 NBA experts for their confidence level in one key unknown about each of the top 10 teams in our latest round of power rankings.
6:40 AM ET Britain’s most decorated road cyclist Chris Froome will leave Team Ineos at the end of the season, ending a long association with the British outfit with whom he won the Tour de France four times. In a statement team boss Dave Brailsford, the mastermind of Froome’s Tour wins in 2013, 2015, 2016
5:55 AM ET Kevin Magnussen thinks Racing Point and McLaren could challenge Ferrari for ‘best of the rest’ behind Mercedes and Red Bull. The reaction to Fernando Alonso’s sensational return to Formula One, set to take place in 2021 with Renault. Haas driver Kevin Magnussen also joins the show to talk through his Austrian GP.Listen
5:31 AM BST Passion. Determination. Community. They’re three words associated with rugby clubs all over Australia, particularly when you consider the shambolic nature of how the game has been run in recent years. With the game slowly starting to emerge from the hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Super Rugby AU kicking off last
7:35 PM ET Ohio State has paused all voluntary workouts on campus following the results of its most recent COVID-19 testing of student-athletes, the school announced Wednesday, but it didn’t release the number of positive tests, citing a concern that it could “lead to the identification of specific individuals and compromise their medical privacy.” The
8:33 AM ET Jorge Masvidal said in an interview Sunday night with ESPN’s Ariel Helwani that he has signed a new multifight contract with the UFC ahead of his bout against Kamaru Usman at UFC 251. Masvidal said the UFC didn’t give him every single thing he asked for, but the deal came “very, very
12:14 AM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Giants first baseman Brandon Belt has been using a walking boot as he nurses a sore right heel that will keep him out at least a week. Manager Gabe Kapler said Belt would be re-evaluated in 5-to-7 days but wasn’t ready to put in doubt Belt’s availability
4:58 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Bruno Fernandes is getting sick of Paul Pogba. Not the fact that he gets to play alongside him — that part is going well. It’s the questions about the Frenchman that are driving him mad. Pogba doesn’t do a lot of interviews — especially at the moment — for fear
11:25 PM ET The tentative date for one of boxing’s biggest fights is on the move. The lightweight unification title fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez Jr. might now take place on Oct. 3 in Las Vegas, Top Rank president Todd duBoef confirmed to ESPN’s Steve Kim on Wednesday night. Recently, Top Rank chairman
5:41 PM ET Running back Raheem Mostert is requesting a trade from the San Francisco 49ers, his agent announced Wednesday. Agent Brett Tessler tweeted that the trade request comes after “months of unproductive talks” with the 49ers on adjusting his contract. After months of unproductive talks with the 49ers about fairly adjusting Raheem Mostert’s contract