6:53 AM ET Keith LawESPN Senior Writer Close Senior baseball analyst for Insider Was special asst. to Blue Jays GM Wrote for Baseball Prospectus Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Welcome to ESPN’s annual ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. Top 100 prospects: 1-50 | 51-100 Just missed Top farm
2:24 PM ET Associated Press WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — No. 17 Madison Keys and No. 23 Danielle Collins will lead the U.S. Fed Cup team against Australia next month. Sofia Kenin and Nicole Melichar will join them on the team announced Wednesday by the U.S. Tennis Association and team captain Kathy Rinaldi. The 25-year-old Collins
1:09 PM GMT James Harrington It is now as easy to measure the countdown to the Six Nations in hours as in days, with the first match – France v Wales – kicking off in Paris on Friday evening. And that means time for you to finalise your ESPN Fantasy Rugby team is disappearing fast.
3:52 AM ET Haas driver Kevin Magnussen longs for a day when he can head to a Formula One grand prix weekend knowing he has the chance to finish near the front, rather than just targeting seventh every time. The Dane enjoyed the most impressive season of his career in 2018, finishing ninth overall. Magnussen
11:01 AM GMT ESPN staff Duane Vermeulen signed for the Bulls instead of the Stormers because “it was the right thing to do” after the Pretoria-based Super Rugby franchise were “the first team to reach out to me last year”. The two Super Rugby franchises were interested last year in signing the Springboks No.8 for
3:00 AM ET Toss South Africa opt to field v Pakistan At the ground South Africa have enjoyed more ODI success at than any other, Faf du Plessis won the toss and put Pakistan in to bat. In the fifth match of a series tied 2-2, the home captain felt the wicket might flatten out
9:52 AM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Australian Open finalist Petra Kvitova won eight straight games to take control of the match before needing a tiebreaker to finally beat Victoria Azarenka 6-2, 7-6 (3) on Wednesday in the second round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy. Kvitova, playing her opening match after a
9:41 AM ET As a possible solution to avoid the type of missed call from the NFC Championship Game, the NFL is expected to consider a plan that would allow limited coaches’ challenges for incorrect judgment calls that also could include a penalty or time run off if the coach is wrong, per a league
10:00 AM ET Relief pitchers are increasingly like NFL running backs — their performance can have high impact, sometimes for a relatively short window of time, and they are mostly compensated as if they are disposable. Teams will search for just the right bullpen piece, and when they find him, he’ll get the ball time
8:48 AM ET ESPN staff Former Toro Rosso driver Brendon Hartley has revealed that there were plans to replace him as early as the Monaco Grand Prix last year. Hartley was first drafted in as a Toro Rosso driver at the 2017 U.S. Grand Prix, seven years after being cut from Red Bull’s young driver