8:03 AM ET Roosevelt Taylor, who made two Pro Bowls as a safety with the Chicago Bears during a 12-year NFL career, died Friday at the age of 82. Today we lost a Bears great with the passing of Roosevelt Taylor. Our thoughts are with Rosey’s family and loved ones. — Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) May
May 27, 2020 Playing baseball is hard. Drafting baseball players might be even harder. To call the MLB draft a crapshoot isn’t exactly accurate because scouts and front offices actually do a really good job. It’s just that invariably there are going to be a lot of misses along the way. What follows is a
7:00 AM ET The 2020 MLB draft, to be held June 10 and 11, will be unlike any other. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the draft will be conducted remotely and limited to just five rounds, down from 40 in 2019. Teams will be able to sign an unlimited number of undrafted players, at a
May 29, 2020 ESPNcricinfo staff Kent and Mohammad Nabi have mutually agreed to cancel the Afghanistan allrounder’s contract for the 2020 Vitality Blast, due to uncertainty around the English summer caused by Covid-19. Nabi had been due to return for his second season at Canterbury, having made an impact with bat and ball in 2019.
12:57 PM ET The UFC’s first main event back in its hometown is now official. Former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley and Gilbert Burns made weight Friday morning at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Woodley and Burns each weighed in at 170.5 pounds. The UFC Fight Night card will take place Saturday night at the
11:04 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket West Indies has decided to temporarily slash salaries and funding across the entire regional cricket system by 50% starting July to deal with the “debilitating” impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has left the board facing a major loss of income in the absence of regular cricketing activities. According
7:59 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Hundreds of minor league baseball players were cut Thursday and hundreds more are expected to lose their jobs as the sport grapples with the near certainty that the minor league season will
6:00 AM ET Kevin Stefanski got his first head-coaching job with the Cleveland Browns just as the world was about to change. The coronavirus pandemic shuttered NFL facilities and forced teams into an unprecedented virtual offseason. Stefanski wasn’t even able to move to the Cleveland area from Minnesota until recently. His offensive and defensive coordinators,
7:09 PM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup series heads to Bristol, Tennessee on Sunday for the Food City presents the Supermarket Heroes 500. Chase Elliott took home an elusive checkered flag in Thursday’s Alsco Uniforms 500 in Charlotte. Who will win Sunday’s event (3:30 p.m. ET) at Bristol Motor Speedway? ESPN.com NASCAR senior
2:59 PM ET ESPN News Services Former NBA player Stephen Jackson spoke at a rally Friday afternoon in Minneapolis in remembrance of his friend George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in police custody after pleading that he could not breathe. “I’m here because they’re not gonna demean the character of George Floyd, my