8:45 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders After a three-month hiatus, PGA Tour golf is back. A loaded field will descend on Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, this week. The tournament has attracted the top five players in the Official World Golf Ranking, including No. 1 Rory McIlroy, and eight of the top 10.
2:21 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Atlanta Hawks general manager Travis Schlenk said Tuesday morning that the NBA has told the league’s general managers that the 2020-21 NBA schedule could be condensed in order to allow the league to remain as close as possible to its current schedule format. “Because of this circumstance, I think the
6:56 AM ET The past two quarterbacks to win a Super Bowl could have been pro baseball players. Before Tom Brady won six rings, he was chosen in the 18th round of the 1995 draft by the Montreal Expos. “He was a left-handed-hitting catcher with power. He had a good future,” the Expos’ then-director of
12:56 PM ET Associated Press Tennis players ranked outside the top 500 in singles or outside the top 175 in doubles are eligible for grants worth up to $1,000 from the International Tennis Federation to help deal with the suspension of competition because of the coronavirus pandemic. The ITF announced Wednesday specifics of a total
1:22 PM BST England prop Ellis Genge has said head coach Eddie Jones and himself suffered racist abuse during the tour to South Africa in 2018. The United Kingdom, along with several countries across the world, has seen the Black Lives Matter protests in various cities, which were sparked following the death of George Floyd,
9:59 PM IST Sophie Devine, the New Zealand captain, has advocated the use of a smaller, lighter ball in the women’s game to encourage attacking cricket. Under current regulations, the ball used in women’s cricket is fractionally smaller and lighter than that used in the men’s game. According to both the laws of the game
11:38 AM ET Reigning Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton completed his first laps of a Formula One car since February on Tuesday at a private Mercedes test at UK circuit Silverstone. 1 Related Mercedes booked a two-day test to gain an experience of the safety procedures for the behind-closed-doors races that will start the 2020
11:50 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 Promoter Frank Warren expects to announce later this week the first professional boxing show in the U.K. since sport was shut down in March
2:12 PM ET UFC president Dana White made some news Tuesday morning, and while much of the focus was on the cards he announced for the highly anticipated Fight Island, he threw in a nugget that arguably dwarfs any other fight mentioned. The trilogy bout between heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and former two-division champ Daniel
9:11 AM ET Editor’s note: This story was originally published ahead of Jessica Eye’s appearance at UFC 238. Eye lost to Shevchenko in that bout by second-round knockout. The day Jessica Eye decided she’d never go home again was her 26th birthday. She remembers that it was a warm Saturday afternoon in July, three weeks