The 2020 Major League Baseball postseason continues Wednesday with a packed eight-game schedule in the best-of-three Wild Card Series. There are four games in both the American League and National League sides of the bracket, and four AL teams are trying to advance to the divisional round.Because all of the Wild Card Series games are…
Month: September 2020
NASCAR Cup Series adds Bristol dirt race in major schedule shakeup
It’s dirt, baby! (Bristol Motor Speedway)That’s the slogan for the NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway next March that will see the half-mile oval converted into a dirt track in one of several shakeups coming to the 2021 schedule.Bristol covered its concrete in clay for World of Outlaws and support races in 2000…
Philadelphia 76ers to discuss coaching job with Doc Rivers
3:27 PM ETAdrian WojnarowskiSenior NBA Insider CloseHost of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017Philadelphia 76ers ownership — including Josh Harris and David Blitzer — will meet with Doc Rivers in Philadelphia on Wednesday night on the franchise’s head-coaching job, sources tell ESPN.Rivers talked earlier Wednesday with general manager Elton Brand. Other top candidates –…
YouTube TV is losing Fox regional sports networks
A number of Fox regional sports networks (RSNs) will no longer be available for YouTube TV subscribers beginning October 1st, the company announced. The move comes after YouTube and Fox first spoke publicly about Fox channels leaving YouTube TV in February, but the two companies came to an agreement to carry the rest of the…
Conor McGregor releases poster for Dustin Poirier charity match
Your move, Dana White. Perhaps in response to the UFC president announcing on Wednesday that the UFC is attempting to arrange an official rematch between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier, “The Notorious” took to social media to share a poster for a previously proposed charity bout between him and Poirier apparently in the works for…
The Detroit Lions’ special teams are absolutely killing it
ALLEN PARK — Matt Prater was just named the NFC’s special teams player of the week for the 11th time, and you can make a convincing case he wasn’t even Detroit’s best specialist in Arizona.Jack Fox sent another 65-yard punt into the stratosphere, becoming the first Lions player ever to have 65-yard punts in back-to-back…
Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz calls reporting of COVID-19 testing in SEC ‘kind of a free-for-all’
2:21 PM ETAlex ScarboroughESPN Staff Writer CloseCovers the SEC.Joined ESPN in 2012.Graduate of Auburn University.Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz said there’s no uniform SEC policy for public reporting of COVID-19 test results, and no sharing of that information among the 14 member programs.Drinkwitz told reporters on Wednesday that he has “no idea” what’s going on…
What’s next for Henrik Lundqvist? Potential NHL landing spots
September 30, 2020 | 2:25pm This is not something Henrik Lundqvist necessarily wished for, but the former Rangers franchise goaltender — too soon? — has the opportunity for the first time to test the open market as a free agent. He is 38, though, there is a star-studded goaltending carousel about to go ‘round and…
Brewers won’t have top reliever Devin Williams, Brett Anderson in Wild Card Series vs. Dodgers
2:04 PM ETAlden GonzalezESPN Staff Writer CloseJoined ESPN in 2016 to cover the Los Angeles Rams Previously covered the Angels for MLB.comLOS ANGELES — Devin Williams, arguably the best reliever in baseball this season, has been left off the Milwaukee Brewers’ Wild Card Series roster with what the team identified as soreness in his right…
What I’m hearing about the NHL offseason: Lundqvist, goalie deals, RFAs and more
It’s about to get crazy in the NHL.“Oh geez, it is crazy,” said one NHL general manager on Tuesday. The Stanley Cup has been awarded. The draft is less than a week away and teams still have to completely reshape their rosters. The problem, lamented the GM, is it’s hard to establish pricing right now.…