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7:09 AM ET Sachin Chandan Only one game on the docket for tonight, but if it is like every other game in this series, expect some high-scoring action from the Dallas Stars and the Colorado Avalanche. A popular pick to win the Stanley Cup, the Avalanche will be fighting for their playoff lives in Game

7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN Just over a month since the 2020 MLB season began, the 60-game sprint to the finish has already raced past the halfway point and into the final month with tight races both in the standings and for awards. Now that we’ve all had a chance to see powerhouse teams such

10:44 AM ET The problem with analyzing the future of Lionel Messi is that, after 20 years, his relationship with Barcelona lies somewhere between the professional and the romantic. You can use reason and logic on the first part to come up with plausible scenarios. You can’t account for the second, partly because it’s intensely

1:39 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — D. Wayne Lukas, a four-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer, is back at his Churchill Downs barn after recovering from COVID-19. Lukas, who turns 85 on Wednesday, said he got “really sick.” “I couldn’t get any air and I felt like I was drifting away,” he said. “You just

4:07 AM BST Reuters with ESPN staff SANZAAR has dismissed reports that world champions South Africa are to join an eight-team competition in Europe later this year rather than play in the Rugby Championship. World Rugby vice-president Bernard Laporte told French newspaper Le Progres that the Springboks would replace Japan in the European tournament, which

12:35 AM ET While it’s common for fighters to call for title shots after key victories, it would be hard for observers to not at least think that Aleksandar Rakic will get one at some point after his performance on Saturday night. Rakic, who is ranked eighth by the UFC, dominated Anthony Smith throughout their

11:56 PM ET Steve Kim Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Saturday was arguably the biggest day of boxing since the sport was brought to an abrupt stop in mid-March. Two world title fights each set the

10:48 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jimmie Johnson‘s final season as a full-time driver will end without another title. The seven-time NASCAR champion missed the playoffs in the Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway after being involved in a multi-car crash with five laps to go. Johnson’s teammate at Hendrick

4:54 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — After two days of little sleep and unexpected stress, Naomi Osaka was up to the moment. The two-time Grand Slam champion returned to the court after bringing the push for racial justice to the forefront on the tennis tour, and she advanced to the finals of the

4:12 PM ET Before the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced Friday that the postseason will resume with players and the league working collectively toward social justice goals, we reached out to more than a dozen leaders to ask how they would advise NBA players to use their influence to translate political passions

4:20 PM ET If you think what happened in the NBA on Wednesday can’t happen in the NFL, you don’t know what year this is. Old rules are out the window in 2020. Long-held expectations are outdated. The Detroit Lions canceled practice Tuesday so they could stand outside of their team facility and talk about

5:38 PM ET The Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds won’t play their game on Wednesday night at Miller Park, sources confirmed to ESPN. More teams are also discussing the possibility of not playing, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Among those currently discussing: The Seattle Mariners, who have the most Black players of any team in

7:00 PM ET NORTON, Mass. – What the first week of the FedEx Cup playoffs revealed was it is not the best time to be one of the biggest names in golf. With the exception of Dustin Johnson, who a huge lead at The Northern Trust, the first event of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup

7:00 AM ET After Pat Maroon won a Stanley Cup with his hometown St. Louis Blues in 2019, his career was again at a crossroads. The 32-year-old wanted to stay in St. Louis, where, for the first time in his professional career, he was able to live in the same city as his son, Anthony.

9:05 AM ET Look big picture at Lincoln Riley’s QB résumé, and it’s close to impeccable. In each of his five seasons coaching at Oklahoma — two as a coordinator, three as head coach — his quarterbacks have finished in the top five in Heisman balloting. Of the three different starting QBs Riley has had,

10:14 AM ET It’s finally over. As Bayern Munich captain Manuel Neuer lifted the European Cup following the German club’s Champions League final victory over Paris Saint-Germain in Lisbon on Sunday, the 2019-20 season reached its delayed conclusion. Or so it seemed, anyway. Supporters of Spanish club Elche would argue that their 1-0 victory over