1:44 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports CONCORD, N.C. — Chip Ganassi Racing will shut down its Xfinity Series team, which won six races with three different drivers in 2018, because of a lack of sponsorship. The team had announced
12:34 PM ET Goodbye, 2018. It’s been real. Thanks for the memories. We’ll never forget you, and stuff. Hello, 2019! There’s something intoxicating about that fresh calendar smell, isn’t there? Last year treated us to some great fights, no doubt, but it’s 2019 now, baby. And we’re looking ahead. So, in that spirit, here are
12:07 PM ET Junior lightweight world titleholder Alberto Machado and junior featherweight world titlist Rey Vargas will defend their belts on the same card next month, Golden Boy Promotions announced Friday. Machado will make his third defense when he faces Andrew Cancio in the main event and Vargas will make his fourth defense against Franklin
On that note, fights between the best fighters from the Top Rank and Premier Boxing Champions stables. Make some trades if necessary but stop depriving the fighters and the fans of many of the best fights. New announcing gigs for the great Jim Lampley and Roy Jones Jr. in the wake of HBO’s sad boxing
10:56 AM ET The Tampa Bay Rays, who ranked next to last in the majors in attendance last season, are eliminating more than 10,000 seats in an effort to create a more “intimate” experience for fans at Tropicana Field. The Rays on Friday said they would add a premium seating section in the lower level
10:38 AM GMT The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has announced England Women’s first squad of full-time professional players and has set its sights on regaining the Women’s Six Nations championship in March. The organisation revealed plans for the team to go fully professional last year, awarding full-time contracts to players for the first time. The
11:30 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Wysh List publishes every Friday. Oy, these kids today in the NHL. There’s just … so many of them. At least it seems like that. “This is a young man’s league. It’s changing every year,” said Chicago Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman. “There are more and more players …
10:20 AM ET At the midpoint of the NHL season, teams are beginning to assess their chances at making the postseason and preparing to make decisions about whether to buy, sell or stand pat at the trade deadline. While every team that is on the outside of the playoff race has some sort of shot
12:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — John Elway still has optimism, even as he looks for his fourth head coach in his tenure as the Denver Broncos‘ top football executive. As the Broncos have missed the playoffs for the third straight season, and fired coach Vance Joseph on Monday, Elway has taken plenty of blame
8:30 AM ET SPRINTING BACK AND forth between the court, weight room and visitors locker room at Staples Center on a mid-November evening, Todd Forcier keeps time. The Portland Trail Blazers‘ sports performance specialist is running players through warm-ups an hour before they face the Lakers, but his eyes are also trained on the red