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9:00 AM ET Considering the way the 2020-21 NHL season has gone — or more accurately hasn’t gone — we have to look at all prospects and young players like we’re grading on a curve. Many of these players have never gone this long between games in their entire playing careers. Some are closing in

7:52 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After a year like no other, we’ve made it to the tennis offseason. With the coronavirus pandemic shutting down the ATP and WTA tours for months — including the cancellation of Wimbledon — and dramatically altering the schedule and conditions at the events that did take place, it is hard

7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN In a normal year, baseball’s winter meetings are a gathering of team executives of all stripes, player agents and journalists where the hot stove starts gaining steam and the trade and free-agent markets start buzzing. This, of course, is not a normal year. Instead of crowding into the lobby of

5:02 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR already has started adjusting the 2021 calendar. The first three races of the season, which begins Feb. 14 with the Daytona 500, all will be held in Florida now. NASCAR shifted the February race scheduled for Fontana, California, to the road course at Daytona International Speedway. It swapped the

12:39 PM ET What a weekend in soccer! Tottenham put their north London rivals Arsenal in a tailspin with a derby win, Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig served up a treat in the Bundesliga, Liverpool‘s tired squad racked up another big win and Man United turned in the ultimate “tale of two halves” in beating

6:50 PM GMT The sight of Owen Farrell handing out winners’;; medals to his England teammates — having taken 95 minutes and two halves of extra time to put a hugely inexperienced France to bed — was a fitting, surreal end to the most bizarre of years. This match between England and France saved the

1:46 AM ET ESPN’s panel of Ariel Helwani, Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim breaks down the biggest stories coming out of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night, including Marvin Vettori‘s thrilling unanimous-decision win over Jack Hermansson, and whether the type of violent slam Jordan Leavitt executed to beat Matt Wiman should remain legal. Marvin Vettori

2:04 AM ET Errol Spence Jr. is back. He was aggressive and effective in his unanimous decision win over Danny Garcia on Saturday — erasing all questions that lingered about how he would respond in his first fight since his car accident in October 2019. “I was smiling because it was a long, long road

7:24 PM ET Associated Press THE COLONY, Texas — Yealimi Noh closed with a double bogey Saturday in the Volunteers of America Classic, dropping the 19-year-old American into a tie with major champions Inbee Park and So Yeon Ryu with one round left. Two strokes ahead after a birdie on the par-5 17th, Noh took

4:21 PM ET The NBA schedule has been released for the first half of the 2020-21 season. The regular season tips off on Dec. 22, 72 days after the Los Angeles Lakers hoisted the Larry O’Brien Trophy inside the NBA’s Orlando bubble. Since then, we’ve had the NBA draft, a flurry of coaching changes and

7:15 AM ET ESPN staff The Week 13 NFL schedule is stacked with great matchups. Our NFL Nation reporters bring us the keys to every game, a bold prediction for each matchup and final score picks. Additionally, ESPN Stats & Information provides a stat to know for each game, and the Football Power Index (FPI)

7:30 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Ukrainian tennis player Stanislav Poplavskyy has been given a lifetime ban for participating in match-fixing activities, the Tennis Integrity Unit said Friday. The TIU said Poplavskyy took part in match-fixing and “courtsiding” activities on multiple occasions between 2015 and 2019. Courtsiding involves transmission of live scoring data from

8:33 PM ET ESPN News Services ALBANY, Calif. — Golden Gate Fields has extended its suspension of live horse racing until Dec. 26, when its winter meet is scheduled to begin. The San Francisco Bay area track has been closed since Nov. 13 because of a COVID-19 outbreak. Initially, the track was closed for a

5:35 AM ET I began covering college football in 1987. Nick Saban wouldn’t be a head coach for another three years. Mack Brown had 11 career victories. The first story I wrote about the lack of racial diversity among major college football head coaches ran in 1992. The number of Black head coaches in major

9:25 AM ET The Angry Beaver has endured a lot. Perhaps that’s why it’s so angry. Billed as Seattle’s only hockey bar, the Angry Beaver has been operating in the Greenwood neighborhood since 2012. On busy nights, it looks like a hockey quilt: different fans in different jerseys, clustered together, watching their NHL teams, never

1:56 PM ET The New York Yankees plan to tender a contract to catcher Gary Sanchez on Wednesday, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney. Wednesday is the deadline for teams to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players for the 2021 season. Sanchez was replaced by Kyle Higashioka as the Yankees’ primary catcher in the playoffs after hitting