6:33 AM ET Wisconsin plays Wisconsin football. Iowa is Iowa. Northwestern does Northwestern things. Minnesota is increasingly Minnesota. The Big Ten West might have more proven entities than any other division in college football. But for such a reliable division, the West has been pretty difficult to forecast of late. In 2018, defending champion Wisconsin
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During a warm-up game in England on Tuesday, India cricketers paid tribute to the late Yashpal Sharma by wearing black armbands. Yashpal Sharma, a member of the 1983 World Cup-winning Indian team, passed away on July 13 at the age of 66 after suffering a cardiac arrest. Team India is playing a three-day warm-up match
7:00 AM ET The Seattle Kraken will stretch their tentacles and pluck players from 30 teams on Wednesday night in the NHL expansion draft, starting at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2. Every team except the Vegas Golden Knights, the 2017 expansion franchise that was exempt from this draft, submitted lists of protected players to the
5:00 AM ET Kathleen McNamee While the men’s football competition at the Olympics is often an opportunity to get a sneak peek of some up-and-coming talent, the women’s competition is stacked with both new and recognisable names. With no age limits in the women’s comp and with squads being expanded this year thanks to COVID-19
9:26 PM ET Eight Oakland City Council members will cast non-binding votes for a proposed $12 billion development and ballpark plan on Tuesday morning. An affirmative vote will simply keep the ambitious project alive, but a dissenting vote, the Oakland Athletics say, will kick-start the team’s relocation efforts. Speaking roughly 22 hours before that crucial
Fernando Alonso is on course to secure a seat at the Alpine team next season, their chief executive officer Laurent Rossi says. Rossi revealed that Alonso is on a “one-plus-one” contract this season, with an option the team can take up for 2022. “He is doing great,” Rossi told BBC Sport. “He is as fast
English cricket takes a step into the unknown with the launch of The Hundred, a brand new 100 balls per side format, on Wednesday. Cricket already has several established professional formats at domestic and international level, first-class games, which includes five-day Tests, 50 overs per side one-dayers and Twenty20 matches. But even though Twenty20 was
8:23 PM ET Las Vegas Raiders president Marc Badain, instrumental in the team’s move from Oakland and a key member of the organization for 30 years, resigned on Monday. The issued a news release with a statement from owner Mark Davis, calling Badain “an integral part of the Raider Family,” spanning a tenure that saw
4:21 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN MILWAUKEE – For eight years, Giannis Antetokounmpo has worked toward the moment he and the Milwaukee Bucks find themselves in right now: one win away from an NBA championship. So it should come with little surprise that Monday afternoon, a little more than 24 hours before playing the biggest game
5:29 PM ET ESPN News Services New York Mets manager Luis Rojas was handed a two-game suspension and an undisclosed fine by Major League Baseball on Monday for “excessive arguing” with umpires during Sunday’s 7-6 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Rojas will begin serving the suspension during Monday’s game at Cincinnati. Rojas was ejected in
4:05 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — LSU coach Ed Orgeron hasn’t made a decision between starting Myles Brennan or Max Johnson, but he said he believes in both players and sees them as “championship quarterbacks.” Brennan, a senior, started LSU’s first three games last season, throwing for 1,112 yards and 11 touchdowns, before an abdominal
5:22 PM ET NCAA president Mark Emmert made $2.9 million during the 2019-2020 fiscal year, a time period when pandemic-related closures caused the organization’s revenue to drop by more than 50 percent. The organization brought in $521 million between Sept. 1, 2019 and Aug. 31, 2020, down from more than $1 billion in revenue the
6:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — On Tuesday, a portion of the Dallas Cowboys‘ team will fly to California for the start of training camp. On Wednesday, owner and general manager Jerry Jones, executive vice president Stephen Jones and coach Mike McCarthy will hold a state of the team news conference. On Thursday, the players
10:40 AM ET What a dramatic weekend in Major League Soccer. Gabriel Heinze? No longer the manager of Atlanta United. The Seattle Sounders‘ league-record 13-game unbeaten run? Snapped. Two of the league’s Canadian clubs returned home to play in front of fans for the first time in more than a year, with CF Montreal welcoming
2:40 PM ET As the Seattle Kraken select their first roster of players in Wednesday’s expansion draft, some of the city’s most famous athletes will be announcing their names. Scheduled to reveal players selected by the Kraken in the expansion draft (8 p.m. ET Wednesday, ESPN2) are Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird, Seattle Sounders FC
12:23 PM ET The NHL’s 2021-22 regular-season schedule will include a break for the Winter Olympics in Beijing, sources with knowledge of the schedule confirmed on Monday. The Olympic break is reportedly scheduled from Feb. 5-22, 2022. The schedule, which will be released on Thursday, is expected to include a caveat that NHL participation in
12:00 PM ET On Monday, Nashville Predators prospect Luke Prokop became the first active player under NHL contract to come out as gay. Prokop made the announcement on Instagram, saying, “From a young age I have dreamed of being an NHL player, and I believe that living my authentic life will allow me to bring
8:09 AM ET SANDWICH, England — Like it did with everything else, COVID-19 turned golf upside down. In 2020, there was no Open. The Masters was in August. The PGA Championship was back in August, where it normally fell before being moved to May the year before. The U.S. Open was in September. Instead of