It’s past time for NASCAR to make its approval process transparent to the public. Truck Series veteran Jennifer Jo Cobb was set to make her Cup Series debut at Talladega on Sunday. But Cobb, 47, won’t be in the race after all after NASCAR told Cobb that she didn’t meet the sanctioning body’s approval criteria
Getty Images Late last month, Indiana University hired Mike Woodson to be the new coach of its men’s basketball team, officially ending the speculation surrounding Brad Stevens. But while we’ve known for some time now that Stevens wouldn’t be leaving the Boston Celtics to go back to college, we didn’t know just how seriously Indiana
Leading up to the 2021 NFL draft, which starts April 29, Yahoo Sports will count down our top 100 overall prospects. We’ll count them down in groups of five for Nos. 100-51, followed by more in-depth reports on our top 50 players, with help from our scouting assistant, Liam Blutman. We reserve the right to
7:51 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Saturday’s UFC 261 pay-per-view will not be the first card in UFC history to have two women’s championships on the line. That distinction goes to a 2015 event in Melbourne, Australia, which is notable for two other reasons: first, for filling Etihad Stadium with 56,214 fans, the most ever to
Charli Collier’s basketball career was fast-tracked in college because everyone knew she would be draft-eligible after her junior year and started talking about her as a potential No. 1 pick in the WNBA Draft. It was fast-tracked in high school, too, with the star player earning recruiting letters from all over and winning a bronze
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Time to wake up and smell the sports, my friend. It’s Tuesday and we’ve got things to catch you up on, so rub those sleepies away and give me a few minutes of your time. Here’s to hoping your Monday was nearly as good as Gonzaga’s after the Zags landed the top college hoops prospect
6:54 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. For weeks, it appeared that the East Division playoff slots were all but secured, but the New York Rangers have continued to lurk in that fifth position. Tonight, they’ll look to claw one
7:00 AM ET As the globe comes to terms with the inevitably of a Super League upending the structure of European soccer, it’s not hard to imagine a series of events that leads to a similar shift in an American sport similarly steeped in more than a century’s worth of tradition. With its best teams
7:55 AM ET Georgia sophomore Sahvir Wheeler, one of the best passers in the college game, announced Tuesday that he will enter the NCAA transfer portal and will also declare for the NBA draft while maintaining his collegiate eligibility. “I decided to declare for the NBA draft because of the success I had individually this
(Reuters) – Karolina Pliskova has yet to taste much success under Sascha Bajin since hiring the German coach at the end of last season but the Czech former world number one said they are working well together. Pliskova, who is ranked ninth in the world, split with Daniel Vallverdu at the end of her 2020
The National Hockey League had a total of eight games on Monday, and we had an entertaining bunch of games with a slice of history, too. San Jose’s Patrick Marleau was the big story at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, as he moved past Gordie Howe for the NHL’s all-time games played top spot. Marleau
10:30 PM ET San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau played in his 1,768th career game on Monday night at the Vegas Golden Knights, breaking Hall of Famer Gordie Howe’s record for the most in NHL history. Marleau, 41, began his career with San Jose in the 1997-98 season. Marleau set the games played record in
12:50 AM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU has added transfer guard Micah Peavy, the 2020 Texas high school Class 6A player of the year who started 25 games for Big 12 rival Texas Tech as a freshman this past season. Peavy is at least the fourth Division I transfer who has joined
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Indiana and Notre Dame will end a nearly a 40-year series hiatus after school officials announced Monday they would open the next decade with a two-game football series. Notre Dame will host Indiana on Aug. 31, 2030, the first contest between the in-state programs since September 1991. On Sept. 27, 2031, the
STUTTGART, Germany (AP) Eighth-seeded Belinda Bencic had to face down a stubborn performance by a 17 year old on tour debut to reach the second round of the Porsche Grand Prix on Monday. Bencic was broken once in the first set and needed six match points against Nastasja Schunk to finish a 6-4, 6-2 win.
San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau passed Gordie Howe for the most NHL games played all-time on Monday night. After tying Howe’s all-time mark over the weekend, Marleau played his 1,768th contest on Monday night in Vegas as the Sharks faced off against the Vegas Golden Knights. “I’ll try to take it all in as
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ESPN college basketball analyst Bob Valvano, the brother of late North Carolina State men’s basketball coach and broadcaster Jim Valvano, says on social media that he has leukemia, an aortic aneurysm and some kidney damage. Jim Valvano, who died in April 1993 from adenocarcinoma, a glandular cancer, led heavy underdog N.C. State