May 1, 2020 Jeff Wagenheim FALL RIVER, Mass. — The heavy bag was taking a beating. Thump. Thump. The assault of low kicks from the tree-trunk legs of Yorgan De Castro was unrelenting, as ominous as an approaching thunderstorm. Thump. Thump. He looked like he could continue like this for days. But seconds later De
5:19 PM ET Universal Tennis Rating has created two new events to help kickstart live tennis during the coronavirus shutdown, both of them four-player round-robin exhibitions that will be played on a private court West Palm Beach, Fla.,with a skeleton staff and enhanced safety precautions — but no spectators. The UTR Pro Match Series exhibition
4:55 PM ET The NBA has postponed the draft lottery and draft combine, the league announced Friday. Both events had been set to take place in Chicago, with the lottery scheduled for May 19 and the combine May 21-24. Sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that the NBA held off on pushing back the June 25
4:20 PM ET Tennessee quarterback Brian Maurer, hoping to bring awareness to the importance of mental health, on Friday detailed in an Instagram post that he was planning to kill himself on Jan. 22 before receiving a phone call from his mother that day. “I thought I lost my battle with depression and my pain
4:25 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — No one knows for sure how, when and where — or, truly, even if — Major League Baseball will play games in 2020. Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez feels certain of this much: His team will wait to properly mark its World Series championship with spectators in the
4:06 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Indians reliever Emmanuel Clase has been suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball for testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug. Clase was acquired from the Texas Rangers this winter in Cleveland’s trade of two-time Cy Young winner Corey Kluber. The commissioner’s office said the 22-year-old Clase tested
8:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN Tyson Fury’s team might be hard at work trying to make a late 2020 fight against Anthony Joshua a reality, but Fury, the lineal heavyweight champion and WBC titleholder, has had his focus centered on home. He’s been making the most of his time the past six-plus weeks as the
3:11 PM ET Jeremy Lin says he was surprised, humbled and ultimately grateful after the New York Knicks reached out to him to propose taking a week on MSG Network to showcase interviews and 2012 games related to the brief but memorable phenomenon that was “Linsanity.” In an interview with Rachel Nichols for ESPN’s The
11:32 AM ET Kevin Matz The eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series travels to virtual Dover International Speedway this weekend. The action will take place on iRacing, a motorsports simulation service that replicates the cars, tracks and physics of auto racing. The Pro Invitational Series is a competition between professional NASCAR drivers using computer racing wheels
2:58 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN After a long, extensive hiring process of diverse candidates in the wee hours of Sunday, April 26, Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas ultimately decided on his new general manager: Marc Eversley. With ESPN re-airing the third and fourth episodes of the “Last Dance” docuseries to chronicle