After 66 scrimmages, 88 seeding games, one play-in, the 2020 NBA Playoffs have finally arrived! Starting August 17, sixteen teams — eight from each the Eastern and Western conferences — will begin their route for the NBA championship and the coveted Larry O’Brien trophy, to be rewarded in October. The next two months of playoff […]
The 2020 Major League Baseball (MLB) regular season is tentatively scheduled to begin on Thursday, July 23rd with a doubleheader on ESPN in prime time — first, the New York Yankees at the defending 2019 world champion Washington Nationals, followed by longtime rivals San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers. The entire slate has been […]
All 2019-20 NBA season restart games are played across three venues at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida and will begin on July 30. Based on a competitive format approved by the NBA Board of Governors and the National Basketball Players Association, 22 teams will return to play during the 2019-20 […]
The National Football League (NFL) announced on Thursday, May 7 its 17-week, 256-game regular-season schedule for 2020, which (tentatively) runs from September 10, 2020 through January 3, 2021. Jump to: Thursdays, Sundays, Mondays Jump to: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, […]
March 11th, 2020. It was the date when the entire sports landscape in the United States first took official drastic action due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An NBA player — later to be revealed as star Jazz center Rudy Gobert — was discovered to having the virus just minutes before tip-off of a Utah Jazz-Oklahoma […]
The highly-anticipated documentary The Last Dance finally hit the ESPN airwaves on April 19 with the first two parts of the 10-part miniseries. Produced by Michael Tollin and directed by Jason Hehir, “The Last Dance” chronicles the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls — the final season the franchise had won the NBA championship and the last season […]
Yet another reboot comes to television when this spring, the revival of Vince McMahon’s XFL, short for the Extreme Football League, begins action. It first debuted back in Feb. 2001 to big TV audiences, but its viewership had quickly eroded and the league folded after one season. This time around, the XFL had more time […]
The Australian Open, tennis’ first major tournament of a new decade, will be broadcast on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPN+ and streaming on the ESPN app beginning Sunday, Jan. 19. There’ll be more than 100 hours of television plus 1,400 hours of streaming of tournament coverage, culminating with the Women’s and Men’s Championships on February 1 […]
The National Football League announced its postseason television schedule on Sunday, December 29. Wild Card weekend marks the kickoff to the NFL postseason on Jan. 4-5. ESPN and ABC will simulcast the first game of these playoffs on Saturday, Jan. 4 at 4:35 p.m. ET: AFC South division winner Houston Texans make their sixth playoff […]
