12:46 PM ET Justin Gaethje has moved up to No. 2, right behind Khabib Nurmagomedov. That rise in the ESPN lightweight division rankings, prompted by Gaethje’s May 9 TKO victory over the previously second-ranked Tony Ferguson, sets up a forthcoming matchup between the champ, Nurmagomedov, and the new interim champ, Gaethje, on a date still
2:05 PM ET The NCAA announced its Academic Progress Rate results on Tuesday, with 15 Division-I programs not reaching the threshold needed to compete in the postseason. The standard to avoid penalties and play in the postseason is an overall four-year rate from 2015-16 through 2018-19 of 930, a score which predicts a 50% graduation
7:15 AM ET Two weeks into the season, we have a new team atop our Korean Baseball Organization Power Rankings. Plus, we had a continuing surge in home runs (including one that won a player new car!), which means we also had a continuing surge of bat flips. On to the latest in KBO …
11:36 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN LOS ANGELES — When the lifeguard arrived, between 50 and 75 yards off Venice Beach, the boy and his father were caught in the rip current, enveloped in what’s called an “impact zone.” “The best way I can describe it,” said Kenichi Haskett, Section Chief of the LA County Fire
7:44 PM IST Lancashire have expressed hopes that some fans will be able to attend matches this summer as they prepare for the “green light” to stage England fixtures behind closed doors at Emirates Old Trafford. Extensive plans have been drawn up to play international cricket in ‘bio-secure’ conditions in recent months, with the ECB
9:36 AM ET Steelers running back James Conner is scheduled to be a free agent after this season and says it “would be hard” to play for another team because of how connected he is to the city of Pittsburgh. “It would be hard, it would be hard to put another helmet on. Just because
11:31 AM ET The Belmont Stakes will take place “in the month of June” and be shortened from its traditional length of 1 1/2 miles, Michael Dubb, a member of the New York Racing Association’s board of director says. Dubb made the announcement on ESPN Audio’s “In The Gate” podcast, which is likely to be
7:00 AM ET YEARS AGO, AFTER a bad hurricane hit Wilmington, North Carolina, Michael Jordan came back to help the recovery effort. Jordan doesn’t go home very often, but he had some friends with him on that trip and wanted to show them where he’d grown up while they were in town. The house, a
8:51 AM ET Kevin Matz The NASCAR Cup Series heads back to Darlington Raceway on Wednesday (7:30 p.m. ET), just three days after Kevin Harvick found victory at that very track. The rare weekday race will see an altered format that includes no practice or qualifying and a starting grid determined by inverting the top
8:00 AM ET The right head coach can change a program’s trajectory, and so can the right coordinator. Just ask national champion LSU, which got over the hump last season after reshaping its passing game under innovative assistant Joe Brady. Ed Orgeron’s brilliant hire of Brady, a little-known, 29-year-old offensive assistant for the New Orleans