12:17 PM ET Macklemore (aka Ben Haggerty) has fallen hard for golf. Now, when he sits up straight in bed, it isn’t because he thought of new rap lyrics: It’s about golf. But don’t get things twisted. He didn’t always feel this way. And that’s how this conversation starts, with me calling him out! Collins:
Month: March 2021
Former Australia skipper Steve Waugh feels India captain Virat Kohli‘s “new attitude” has instilled in his team the habit of taking on every hurdle and then getting over it rather than be intimidated by the opposition. Waugh made these comments on his latest documentary “Capturing Cricket: Steve Waugh in India” which captures the very essence
7:00 AM ET If the season ended today, the New York Knicks would be hosting a first-round playoff series. Backed by three straight wins, the Knicks are one of only four Eastern Conference teams — the Philadelphia 76ers, Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks being the others — with records greater than .500. But the Miami
9:00 AM ET College football recruiting remains a marathon and not a sprint. Over the coming months, rankings will change, especially with challenges that continue to be presented because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One thing is clear, though: There is no one path to success on the recruiting trail. Alabama‘s 2021 class, for example, finished
7:00 AM ET “Nobody knows what I’ve been doing since I left the game,” Theo Fleury says. “Everyone thinks I’m still this crazy person with problems and issues, but I’ve actually been trying to figure it out.” Fleury last played in the NHL in 2003; he was suspended by the league for violating its substance
Feb 1, 2021 It wasn’t close on Saturday night, and as expected, Canelo Alvarez took care of WBC mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim to retain his titles. Immediately after the fight, Alvarez’s next fight was announced — a unification bout against Billy Joe Saunders. Will Alvarez achieve his goal of unifying the super middleweight division in
8:00 AM ET The 2020-21 Premier League title race has now become a battle for second place with Manchester City stretching their lead at the top to 12 points over the weekend. A win at home to Wolves on Tuesday would take City 15 points clear of the pack and register their 21st consecutive victory
7:10 AM GMT Waratahs assistant coach Chris Whitaker says it’s the COVID pandemic and not the lack of player development that has thrust his franchise into arguably its deepest hole of the professional era. The Waratahs were on Saturday night hammered 61-10 by the Brumbies in Canberra, the record margin against their southern rivals coming
7:00 AM ET My least favorite thing of late February: Shoveling snow for the seventh time in the month. My favorite thing: My annual scroll through all the non-roster invitees to spring training. While every team brings many of its top prospects to major league camp, it’s the veterans who make these lists interesting. You
2:07 PM ET The Houston Texans have released running back Duke Johnson, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday. The Texans acquired Johnson from the Cleveland Browns during training camp in 2019 for a third-round pick. In 11 games for the Texans last season, Johnson rushed for 235 yards and a touchdown on 77
6:54 AM ET IT WAS OCT. 25, 2020, and Daniel Cormier was in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, talking to UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, who had shocked the MMA world the previous night by tearfully announcing his retirement in the Octagon after defeating Justin Gaethje. There was plenty for the old friends to talk
Briton Jamie Chadwick will continue as Williams’ development driver for a third season in 2021. The team said the 22-year-old would increase her programme in the simulator and be “fully immersed” both trackside and at the factory at grands prix. Chadwick, whose target is to race in F1 one day, said: “I have absolutely loved
Amid debate over the third Test pitch, West Indies great Vivian Richards slammed England for complaining about the spinning wicket and added that he wants to see a similar track in the final Test of the series. India had managed to defeat England within two days in the pink-ball Test. The match saw both India
1:03 AM GMT Super Rugby Aotearoa roared into life over the weekend, with wins for competition favourites the Crusaders as well as the team that might finally be able to push them, the Blues. Super Rugby AU was into its second week and again it was the title fancies, the Reds and Brumbies who triumphed,
10:10 PM ET With 24 seconds left in a 1-point game, the Milwaukee Bucks came out of a timeout and passed the ball five times, moving it around until it returned to Giannis Antetokounmpo‘s hands. With the LA Clippers defense in full scramble mode and leaving the paint as wide open as a runway, Antetokounmpo
3:05 PM ET What began as a much-anticipated clash in the battle for the top four ended up as a 0-0 draw that served as a 90-minute advert for why Chelsea and Manchester United are expected to fight for Erling Haaland’s signature this summer. That particular off-field battle might prove more of a spectacle than
9:37 PM ET ESPN News Services ABERDEEN, Md. — Vi Ripken, matriarch of the famed Orioles family that includes Hall of Fame son Cal Ripken Jr., has died. She was 82. Family spokesman John Maroon said Sunday that she died on Friday, a day before her birthday, in Aberdeen, where a youth stadium carries the
10:46 PM ET ESPN News Services PHILADELPHIA — Irv Cross, the former Pro Bowl defensive back who became the first Black man to work full time as a sports analyst on national television with CBS, died Sunday. He was 81. The Philadelphia Eagles, the team Cross spent his six of his nine seasons with, said