8:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of "The Only Rule Is It Has To Work" The World Series is a story, and stories produce heroes. But while we all love clear, obvious heroes -- the Aryas and the T'Challas, the…

6:51 AM ET Former Atlanta Braves great Tom Glavine has a word of warning to baseball players expressing concern about their salaries for a potential coronavirus-affected 2020 season: You might take the blame for the sport not resuming. Glavine, who served a players' union representative during the baseball…

2:27 AM ET South Korea's FC Seoul could be fined or docked points for using sex dolls instead of mannequins to fill empty seats during a league match after the K-League said its disciplinary committee is to look into the incident, Yonhap news agency reported. The club placed around 20 dolls, some of…

12:19 AM ET When Timberwolves president Gersson Rosas set about assembling a front office staff in Minnesota in 2019, he was insistent that the group include a doctor that specialized in medicine and technology. Rosas was looking for someone analytical, who could help the Timberwolves use data to optimize…

9:32 PM ET Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, the father of undefeated UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, has been put into a medically induced coma in Moscow, the fighter's manager, Ali Abdelaziz, confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. Abdelaziz confirmed Abdulmanap was transported to Moscow from his native…

8:18 PM ET The Big 12 conference doesn't have a date yet for its sports to resume, but commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Tuesday the league needs to be "up and running" by mid-July if the college football season is going to start on time. "If we're not, we're looking at probably having to delay the season…

2:05 PM ET The NCAA announced its Academic Progress Rate results on Tuesday, with 15 Division I programs not reaching the threshold needed to compete in the postseason. The standard to avoid penalties and play in the postseason is an overall four-year rate from 2015-16 through 2018-19 of 930, a score…

6:20 PM ET Steve KimESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez want to next fight each other in a high-stakes lightweight unification bout, Top Rank's Bob Arum told ESPN on Tuesday after talking to both camps. "In talking with Lomachenko and Lopez, neither of them want an interim fight," Arum said. "So…

5:09 PM ET As it plans for what it hopes is a full 2020 season, the NFL has acknowledged the inevitability that a number of its personnel will be infected by the coronavirus. Sustaining the season throughout the fall will require the effective use of testing and isolating procedures currently under…

4:33 PM ET Former Chicago Bulls forward Horace Grant has fired back at claims Michael Jordan made against him during "The Last Dance" documentary series on ESPN. In a radio interview with Kap and Co. on ESPN 1000 in Chicago on Tuesday, Grant said it "is a downright, outright, completely lie" that he…