Tani Adewumi, 9, fled Nigeria with his family and later settled into a New York homeless shelter. Today he dreams of becoming the world's youngest chess grandmaster.  7:00 AM ET IT'S 9 P.M., and 8-year-old Tani Adewumi is wired, like he'd just swallowed a bag of sugar. He had played chess all day,…

4:25 AM ET Editor's note: This story has been updated since it was first published on April 16 as leagues make revisions to their existing plans or introduce new ones following consultation with government and health officials in their respective countries. The coronavirus pandemic has changed regular…

4:00 AM ET As the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact the football world, the transfer market will change radically. Clubs are likely to turn to loan and swap deals rather than paying up front for a player, so we look back at some of the best and worst loan moves ever in Europe. THE BEST 10. Romelu…

10:33 PM ET The National Hockey League Players' Association executive board voted to approve a 24-team, conference-based playoff format for a potential restart of the 2019-20 NHL season this summer. "The Executive Board of the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) has authorized further…

9:31 PM ET Caylin Newton is going to follow in the footsteps of his brother and play football at Auburn after all. Newton, whose older brother Cam won the Heisman Trophy and led Auburn to a national championship in 2010, announced Friday that he'll be heading to The Plains as a graduate transfer. The…

2:39 PM ET Jerry Sloan, a player known as "The Original Bull" in Chicago before becoming a legendary head coach of the Utah Jazz, died Friday. He was 78. Many in the NBA community took to social media to pay tribute to Sloan, who retired in 2011 as the longest-tenured head coach with one franchise in…

4:34 PM ET Don Nelson, the winningest coach in NBA history, had just finished a stroll on the beach in his beloved Hawai'i on Friday when a reporter informed him that his coaching contemporary Jerry Sloan had died from complications of Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia at age 78. "Oh, he was…

3:49 PM ET Acclaimed film director and multiple-time Academy Award nominee Christopher Nolan debuted a trailer on Thursday for his newest movie, "Tenet," in Fortnite. Nolan's action thriller is scheduled to be released on July 17 and stars John David Washington, who appeared in "BlacKkKlansman" and…

7:13 PM ET Georgetown coach Patrick Ewing has tested positive for the coronavirus, the school announced Friday. The Hall of Famer is under care and isolated at a local hospital "I want to share that I have tested positive for COVID-19. This virus is serious and should not be taken lightly," Ewing said…

7:19 PM ET Among marketplaces where governmental restrictions are keeping practice facilities shuttered, teams are asking the NBA whether players can bypass returns to those cities and report directly to the league's proposed campus environment for the start of training camps, sources told ESPN. Most…