7:00 AM ET What if the Splash Bros. had Wilt Chamberlain playing center? How many titles would the Lakers have won if Magic Johnson was running the break with Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal? Imagine Hakeem Olajuwon and James Harden teaming up in Clutch City. We asked our NBA writers to come up with…

7:00 AM ET Arizona Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet made news during the NHL's season pause for a painful reason. "This is when you get cocky rollerblading," Tocchet tweeted last month, along with a couple of nasty images of scrapes on his body. Since then, he has rediscovered biking. "I've explored Arizona…

11:24 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Denny Hamlin won NASCAR's first Wednesday race since 1984 when rain stopped the event with 20 laps remaining at Darlington Raceway. The Daytona 500 winner was out front but out of fresh tires and trying to hang on when he got unintended help from Joe…

11:24 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Denny Hamlin won NASCAR's first Wednesday race since 1984 when rain stopped the event with 20 laps remaining at Darlington Raceway. The Daytona 500 winner was out front but out of fresh tires and trying to hang on when he got unintended help from Joe…

3:53 PM ET Jared Gaon knew the clip had potential the moment he saw it. Sitting in his parents' New Jersey home, Gaon was watching Episode 10 of ESPN's Michael Jordan documentary series "The Last Dance." On Gaon's screen, Jordan was sitting in the back of the Chicago Bulls' bus, listening to music --…

10:08 PM ET The NHL and the NHLPA are discussing a 24-team, conference-based playoff format for a potential restart to the 2019-20 season this summer, sources confirmed to ESPN. The proposed format was first reported by Sportsnet. The NHL season has been on pause since March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…

4:31 PM ET The NCAA Division I Council voted Wednesday to allow voluntary on-campus athletic activities to resume in football and men's and women's basketball, starting June 1. After the coronavirus pandemic forced the shutdown of sports across the country, the council banned all on-campus athletic…

6:41 PM ET Renovation of Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium resumed Monday after an undisclosed number of workers at the construction site tested positive for the coronavirus. According to a statement provided by the university to ESPN, the construction company, Caddell Construction, immediately "adapted…

6:15 PM ET The PGA Tour is set to return to action next month in Texas, but the plight of international players residing overseas makes their involvement in the scheduled tournaments problematic. Veteran Lee Westwood highlighted those obstacles in an interview with Golf Channel on Tuesday in which he…

6:03 PM ET Just like that, life feels a little more normal, right? Three UFC events in eight days will certainly do that. After two months of uncertainty, we're back to arguing about late/early stoppages, title shots and all the wacky, fun stuff that makes being an MMA fan so much fun. It also means…