8:00 AM ETSteve WulfESPN Senior Writer CloseSenior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine Around long enough to have written about athletes from Hank Aaron to Ben Zobrist and Super Bowls from VII to XLVI. Joined ESPN The Magazine as a founding editor in 1998. Also wrote for Time, Sports Illustrated, the Fort Lauderdale News…
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BBC Sport’s five things to do today
Read this…He’s the second-fastest man in British history and he’s targeting a place at next year’s rearranged Tokyo Olympics, but you may not even have heard of him.Meet James Dasaolu, the part-time personal trainer and part-time professional athlete who has overcome injury and crowdfunded his way back on to the 100m stage.Watch this…Left foot, right…
Big Leak Reveals the OnePlus 8’s Design and Specs Ahead of Launch
Leaks say this is what the OnePlus 8 will look like. Photo: Winfuture.de (OnePlus)Recently, OnePlus has started hyping up its next big phone—the OnePlus 8. And now, a big leak has just revealed a ton of critical info about the design and features of OnePlus’ next flagship handset. Based on official-looking product renders and specs…
Sam Tomkins: Catalans Dragons star on coronavirus lockdown in France
With much of the planet now in complete shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, people from all walks of life have had their worlds turned upside down – including sports stars who have been left with no sport to play.As part of a new BBC Sport series, England international Sam Tomkins, who joined Super League…
BBC Sport’s five things to do today
Read this…We all dream of representing our country on the international stage, right? Meet the team competing as ‘England’ in 2020… by chanceWatch this…Kids interrupting work was something of a novelty two weeks ago but now it is part of our daily routine, as Olympic gold medallist Greg Rutherford knows all too well… Media playback…
Camaraderie, confrontation & characters – life inside the dressing room
Dressing rooms are the one place at a football stadium the television cameras rarely enterThe dressing room is football’s inner sanctum, a place which can be defined by great togetherness or deep division, where games can be won or lost before a ball is even kicked.What goes on between players and managers behind closed doors…
A letter from the great quarantine: Missing football, pasta and friendship
8:00 AM ETWright ThompsonSenior Writer CloseWright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN and is executive producer of TrueSouth and co-executive producer of Backstory. He is the author of New York Times bestselling The Cost of These Dreams.OXFORD, Miss. — On Wednesday, someone sent me a video clip of a quarantined Italian man playing the…
How Belarus is fighting the coronavirus: vodka first, soccer second
11:30 AM ETArtur PetrosyanESPN.com writer Belarusian football is not something even the most fanatical game lovers across the globe have been following over the years. Belarus is ranked 32nd out of 56 UEFA member associations, between Liechtenstein and Israel, while the national team — ranked 87th, between Haiti and Zambia, in the FIFA World Ranking…
‘Too early for Tour de France decision’
Egan Bernal became the youngest rider in 110 years to win the Tour de France in 2019The Tour de France is considering the option of going ahead without fans, says France’s sports minister. The race is due to run from 27 June to 19 July but is in doubt, with most major sports events off…
Burgers, beer or the buzz: What do you miss about sport?
All forms of professional sport in the UK are suspended because of the coronavirus outbreakWe’re all getting used to days on end without live sport, without the excitement and frustration of seeing our teams or our favourite sports stars doing what they do best.But as well as the obvious gap in live action it seems…