2:58 PM BST England players will be entitled to two weeks of rest with their clubs following the Autumn Nations Cup, as part of improved welfare initiatives after they signed an elite player squad agreement for the 2020-21 season. A statement on the Rugby Players Association (RPA) website also confirmed that England players will take
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Reverse-grid races would reduce Formula 1 to a wrestling-style “show”, Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says. Wolff said: “We should not be designing freak results where it is almost impossible to overtake just because we believe the pecking order should be different. “This is a meritocracy, it is a sport where best man and
11:25 AM ET Adam RittenbergESPN Senior Writer Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print West Virginia has suspended 11 football players for Saturday’s season opener against Eastern Kentucky. The suspensions are not coronavirus-related. All are one-game suspensions for violating team
Mayank Agarwal and Harpreet Brar gave a glimpse into KXIP team room.© Kings XI Punjab/Instagram Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) players Harpreet Brar and Mayank Agarwal, renamed as “Mayank Singh Aujla” by Brar, gave a glimpse into the “Lion’s Den” – KXIP’s team room in the UAE. A sprawling facility within the team hotel, the room
Valtteri Bottas must be starting to wonder what he has to do to beat Lewis Hamilton at all this year. Bottas has not won a race since the opening grand prix of the season. And the last time he started ahead of his Mercedes team-mate in qualifying was at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at
7:00 AM ET IT’S A FIVE-POINT game in a 1-1 playoff series and the game clock ticks inside two minutes in the first half when LeBron James goes in his bag. The sequence begins when James snags a defensive rebound and advances the ball up the left side of the court. Once past the massive
12:32 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After playing five matches in seven days, Victoria Azarenka was ready for one more. It was her first singles final in almost 18 months, and she was looking for her biggest title since 2016. The 31-year-old had been victorious against several notable opponents on her path to the championship match,
Team Sunweb’s Soren Kragh Andersen took a surprise win on stage 14 of the Tour de France with a late solo attack as Primoz Roglic maintained his lead in the yellow jersey. Andersen sprung his attack with three kilometres to go, opening up a 15-second gap to take his first stage win. Luka Mezgec was
Defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten won stage two of the Giro Rosa to take the leader’s jersey. The Dutch road race world champion, 37, won by more than a minute ahead of Boels-Dolmans’ Anna van der Breggen and Canyon-SRAM’s Katarzyna Niewiadoma. Mitchelton-Scott rider Van Vleuten was leading when she suffered a mechanical. But she worked
9:41 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — Friday night’s game between the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres was postponed minutes before the scheduled first pitch due to a positive COVID-19 test in the Giants organization, MLB announced. Both teams lined up for a moment of silence for the victims of the
10:00 AM ET We want our fantasy football and we want our fantasy, period. We need the fun-and-games escape from all of America’s problems. And our blessed medicine, our respite from months of sea-to-shining-sea sickness, arrives this weekend in an avalanche of wonderful football, God bless America. But as our country’s history records the victims
England’s Sam Billings hopes his maiden international hundred will be a springboard into tournament cricket after he missed out on last year’s World Cup triumph through injury. The 29-year-old Kent batsman made an impressive 118 against a top-class attack during England’s 19-run defeat by Australia in the first one-day international at Old Trafford on
9:30 AM ET Harry Kettle Arsenal began the 2020-21 Premier League campaign with a convincing 3-0 win against Fulham at Craven Cottage. Alexandre Lacazette poked home from close range to give the visitors an early lead with Gabriel Magalhaes and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang rounding off a really strong showing from Mikel Arteta’s men, as new signing
Mitchelton-Scott’s British rider Simon Yates remained in the Tirreno-Adriatico lead after stage six, which was won in a sprint finish by Belgian Tim Merlier of Alpecin-Fenix. Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas stayed third overall as he and Yates finished in the leading pack. Rafal Majka of Bora-Hansgrohe, remained second, 23 seconds ahead of Welshman Thomas. Michael
Lewis Hamilton took his seventh pole position in nine races this season at the first Tuscan Grand Prix. The world champion beat Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas by just 0.059 seconds on Formula 1’s first competitive experience of the spectacular Mugello circuit. Red Bull locked out the second row, Max Verstappen ahead of Alex Albon. And
7:39 AM ET Slashes, fights, and goals galore. The Eastern Conference finals are just starting to heat up. Meanwhile, the Dallas Stars can put everyone on watch tonight, with the opportunity to go up 3-1 on the favored Vegas Golden Knights. Check out ESPN NHL Playoffs Today every day of the postseason until the Stanley
8:26 AM ET NEW YORK — This time, the man on the other side of the net from Dominic Thiem in a Grand Slam final won’t be Rafael Nadal, greatest clay court player of all time, on the red dirt in the stade Roland Garros. This time, Thiem will not be facing Novak Djokovic, who
11:54 PM ET There are few people in the NBA who dislike each other more than Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge and Miami Heat president Pat Riley — and it has been this way going on four decades. They hated each other in the 1980s, when Ainge was a guard for the Celtics in the