10:26 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN COLUMBUS — The cannon is a lie. There’s a hand-crafted replica of a 1857 Napoleon cannon, once called “the best gun for all round field service” in the Civil War, that rests on two large wheels in Section 111 of Nationwide Arena. It fires at the start of Columbus Blue
8:20 AM ET Associated Press The NFL draft drew record numbers both on site and on television. The league said Monday that more than 600,000 attended over the three days in Nashville, easily eclipsing the 250,000 that came to watch two years ago in Philadelphia. Nielsen reports that the draft on ESPN, ABC and NFL
3:00 AM ET Big picture It’s the final week of league matches, and it’s fourth-placed Sunrisers Hyderabad taking fifth-placed Kings XI Punjab at home, with only net-run-rate separating them. It means that the match could retrospectively be viewed as a potential quarter-final, with the winner enjoying a two-point gap between them and the bottom four
A small weekend loss for the column even though our banker bet landed again. The Champions League has reached the semifinal stage with two cracking games this week, including Barcelona against Liverpool. Running total: -£56.25 The Banker Barcelona have secured another La Liga title with three matches to spare and can now focus entirely on
Napoli cruised to a 2-0 victory at Frosinone to leave the Serie A strugglers 10 points from safety. Napoli midfielder Adam Ounas suffered a cut knee during an attempted mugging following his side’s 2-0 victory away at Frosinone. Ounas was reportedly approached by a group of Frosinone supporters outside the Benito Stirpe stadium, who unsuccessfully
7:09 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Carolina Hurricanes are bruised and battered. They’re also two wins away from reaching the Eastern Conference final. Plus, the Colorado Avalanche got even with the San Jose Sharks — but not without some controversy. Here’s what happened in the NHL last night (check out replays of every playoff game
9:59 AM ET It’s Monday, time for another edition of Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show, which airs live starting at 1 p.m. ET on Twitter and YouTube. Following the show, the entirety can be heard via the ESPN podcast center. Boy, that was some kinda weekend in MMA. From UFC to Bellator to KSW to Cage
1:23 AM ET The UFC is officially headed to Abu Dhabi for the first time since 2014. A UFC 242 pay-per-view event has been scheduled for Sept. 7 in Abu Dhabi, the promotion announced Sunday. The event is part of a new five-year partnership with the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism, that will
11:51 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN SAN JOSE — Hopefully the cleanup crew at SAP Center has some extra mop buckets. It’s going to take a few to soak up the sarcasm that dripped from San Jose Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic in discussing an icing call that wasn’t whistled by the officials and led to a
11:37 PM ET PHOENIX — Perhaps Chicago Cubs pitcher Tyler Chatwood knew what was coming from his good friend when he doubled off of Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Matt Andriese to start a 15th-inning rally in the Cubs’ wild win over Arizona on Sunday. The game was tied 3-3 until Ben Zobrist drove home Chatwood not