8:38 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1995, Giants infielder Mike Benjamin went 6-for-7. In his previous game, Benjamin had gone 4-for-5; the 10 hits
10:06 PM IST Valkerie Baynes There will be no place for friendship when West Indies take on England belatedly this summer, Kemar Roach has warned fellow Barbadian fast bowler Jofra Archer. While no one will be happier to see each other on a cricket pitch than the combatants when their long-awaited three-Test series gets underway
Jun 9, 2020 Four long years have passed since ESPN+ attempted to rank the college football coaching jobs. Since then, some programs have upgraded facilities, coaching, recruiting operations and on-field play, while others have backslid in key areas. The goal here is to assess which Power 5 jobs are most coveted by coaches (a Group
11:11 AM ET Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Austin Dillon announced Sunday morning that he and his wife Whitney are now parents. The NASCAR driver said in a post on Instagram that Whitney Dillon gave birth to a boy named Ace. Austin Dillon is scheduled to start 16th in the No. 3 car in Sunday’s
7:33 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The Major League Baseball Players Association asked MLB to set a schedule for the 2020 season rather than counter the latest return-to-play proposal by the league, setting the stage for MLB to
7:45 AM ET Editor’s note: This story was originally published on April 8. Sunday marks the 22nd anniversary of Michael Jordan’s game-winning shot in Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals. The NBA’s grandest stage, the NBA Finals, has also produced some of the greatest shots in NBA history. We polled our experts on the
6:00 AM ET Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. Backfield depth: In describing why the Patriots invested a significant asset to bring aboard a backup, coach Bill Belichick once said, “Nobody needs insurance until you need insurance.” At the time, he was speaking of No. 3 quarterback Jacoby Brissett
9:41 AM ET Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane has said the frantic end to the La Liga season — with matches being played every three days — is like a World Cup tournament, and that suits the big-game experience of his squad. “I like the comparison,” he said at his first news conference in over
5:36 PM IST Cricket South Africa has terminated the contract of Clive Eksteen, its former head of sales and sponsor relations, after finding him guilty of “transgressions of a serious nature”. Eksteen was suspended in October last year, alongside then interim director of cricket Corrie van Zyl and COO Naasei Appiah and faced charges of
4:15 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The actor Sushant Singh Rajput, whose portrayals included the title role in MS Dhoni’s biopic M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, has died in Mumbai at the age of 34. Police said it was a case of suicide. “He has committed suicide at his residence in Bandra,” Manoj Sharma, additional commissioner