7:45 PM ET ESPN staff The college football season will look plenty different in 2021. The college football power rankings? Not quite as much. Despite new quarterbacks at Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State, those three perennial powers find themselves in the top five. They are joined by Oklahoma and Georgia, which both return quarterbacks in
7:01 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Naomi Osaka pulled out of the National Bank Open hard-court tuneup to be played in Montreal this month ahead of the US Open. The tournament announced the withdrawals of Osaka and two other top-10 players who have won Grand Slam titles, Sofia Kenin and Iga Swiatek, on Tuesday.
7:18 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN For decades, Team USA was the standard-bearer of Olympic boxing, a factory of future heavyweight champions no matter the weight class. Floyd Paterson won middleweight gold at the 1952 Helsinki Games before capturing the heavyweight championship. Eight years later, Cassius Clay claimed light heavyweight gold in Rome and went on
2:31 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Trackhouse Racing has signed Ross Chastain as its second Cup Series driver in a multiyear deal announced Tuesday. The 28-year-old Chastain currently drives the No. 42 Chevrolet for Chip Ganassi Racing. Trackhouse purchased the Ganassi operation in late June in a deal that takes effect at the
7:00 AM ET Paul Gutierrez Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered Oakland Raiders for CSNBayArea.com and Sacramento Bee for eight years Member of Pro Football Writers Association Previously worked at Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas Review-Journal and Sports Illustrated Rob Demovsky Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered Packers for Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1997-2013 Two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter
2:58 PM BST British & Irish Lions prop Kyle Sinckler has been cleared of biting a South African opponent in Saturday’s second test, World Rugby announced on Tuesday. Sinckler appeared before a hearing via video conference on Tuesday and denied that he had committed any foul play. 1 Related Sinckler was cited “for an act
5:00 AM ET The Gold Cup is complete, and after a topsy-turvy, 120-minute battle in Las Vegas on Sunday night, Gregg Berhalter’s U.S. team walked away deserving winners over rivals Mexico and made it two trophies out of two attempts over their neighbors this summer, having won the CONCACAF Nations League at the beginning of
2:05 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Xander Schauffele had the presence of mind to bring his Olympic gold medal with him to Memphis, just not enough bravado to wear it around his neck as he emerged from a two-day blur to resume life on the PGA Tour after winning the Olympic men’s tournament on Sunday.
2:13 PM BST Warren Gatland said he was disappointed the British & Irish Lions had been called out by World Rugby over alleged comments about match officials in the test series against South Africa that has been overshadowed by off-field complaints. South Africa Director of Rugby Rassie Erasmus has been called to a misconduct hearing
11:26 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens It’s been another summer of drama at Barcelona. There’s still uncertainty over the coach’s future, their star player left (and still hasn’t technically returned), LaLiga further reduced their spending limit for the upcoming season and they’ve been unable to move on a handful of unwanted big-earning players inherited
1:11 PM BST South Africa will be without key players Pieter-Steph du Toit and Faf de Klerk when they face the British & Irish Lions on Saturday in the final test of the series. Flanker Du Toit and scrum-half De Klerk both miss out through injury with former World Rugby Player of the Year Du
Dwayne Bravo played his last international match on the Caribbean soil on Tuesday.© AFP Dwayne Bravo, the two-time T20I world champion, on Tuesday announced that today’s match against Pakistan in Guyana will be his last international match on home soil. Bravo made the disclosure to his teammates in the team huddle and via Cricket West
12:26 PM ET Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. — – Former Buffalo Sabres captain Michael Peca is rejoining the organization after being hired on Tuesday to become an assistant coach of the team’s American Hockey League affiliate in Rochester, New York. The 47-year-old Peca still lives in the Buffalo area, and spent last season as a
Spinner Nasum Ahmed claimed four wickets as Bangladesh defended 131 to beat Australia for the first time in Twenty20 internationals on Tuesday in Dhaka. Nasum, a left-arm spinner, returned career-best figures of 4 for 19 to help dismiss the visitors for 108 as Bangladesh took a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. Mustafizur Rahman and
11:12 AM ET ESPN News Services Carolina Panthers receiver Keith Kirkwood was taken off the field on a stretcher and left Tuesday’s training camp practice in an ambulance after receiving a hard hit to his head/neck area by safety J.T. Ibe, who was kicked out of the workout and later waived by the team. Panthers
11:37 AM ET Free-agent forward Rudy Gay has agreed to a deal with the Utah Jazz, his agent, Raymond Brothers of Roc Nation Sports, tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The two-year deal includes a player option and reunites Gay with point guard Mike Conley Jr. The two played together for the Memphis Grizzlies for over five
12:00 PM BST The British & Irish Lions have made six changes for their series decider against South Africa on Saturday. With the series poised at 1-1, the two teams face off in Cape Town to decide who takes the 2021 tour. 1 Related Josh Adams, Liam Williams, Bundee Aki, Ali Price, Ken Owens and
10:11 AM ET GERMANTOWN, Tenn. — The PGA Tour announced significant changes to its 2021-22 schedule, collaborating with the European Tour to co-sanction three events, dropping two World Golf Championship events and relocating the first FedEx Cup playoff event to the backyard of its umbrella sponsor. For the first time outside of the World Golf