4:37 PM ET In November 2018, Kansas hired Les Miles to win the news conference, among other things. Not 28 months later, the school cut ties with the coach during a late-night news dump on a Monday in March. The abrupt and embarrassing end to Miles’ tenure this week shouldn’t be dismissed because KU lives
5:59 PM ET ESPN News Services RALEIGH, N.C. — The Nashville Predators‘ injury bug now has hit captain Roman Josi, who is week to week with an upper-body injury after being placed on the injured reserve list. The Predators announced the update on their defenseman Tuesday shortly before a game at Carolina. Josi took a
5:32 PM ET The NBA said Tuesday that it is looking into Miami Heat center Meyers Leonard‘s use of an anti-Semitic slur during a video game livestream. In a video that surfaced Tuesday, Leonard can be heard saying: “F—ing cowards; don’t f—ing snipe me, you f—ing k— b—-.” “We just became aware of the video
5:22 PM ET Three-time champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga fought back to beat Feliciano Lopez on Tuesday in Marseille to win his first ATP Tour victory since 2019. Tsonga, 35, managed to secure a 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 victory over Lopez after coming back from a set down. “This is probably one of the best victories of my
4:42 PM ET Associated Press DOHA, Qatar — Roger Federer will face Britain’s Daniel Evans in the second round of the Qatar Open on Wednesday as the Swiss great makes his comeback after a 13-month break. Federer, who has had two operations on his right knee since playing at the Australian Open last year, is
4:51 PM ET Duke has paused football activities indefinitely after identifying a cluster of 10 positive COVID-19 cases within the team, the school announced Tuesday. In a statement, the school said the 10 individuals attended team activities together and are currently in isolation. Contact tracing also identified close contacts, who are now in quarantine. Duke
4:21 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Packers did not use the franchise tag to retain Pro Bowl running back Aaron Jones, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter, but they still have one more shot to retain him before he hits free agency. The source told Schefter that the Packers are still attempting to
2:57 PM ET Associated Press The Texas Rangers will be without one of their top relievers to start the season after hard-throwing Jonathan Hernandez was shut down from pitching for at least four weeks because of a ligament sprain in his right elbow. Rangers general manager Chris Young said Tuesday that an MRI revealed a
3:57 PM ET Former Masters champion Danny Willett had to withdraw from the Players Championship on Tuesday due to a positive COVID-19 test taken as part of the PGA Tour weekly protocols. Willett, who tied for 31st last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, is the first player since Padraig Harrington at the AT&T Pebble
3:32 PM GMT Lock Cory Hill and scrum-half Gareth Davies have been included for unbeaten Wales as they face struggling Italy in a Six Nations clash in Rome on Saturday — the only changes to the team that defeated England last month. Davies will replace the injured Kieran Hardy, while Hill comes in for Adam
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1:46 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Rory McIlroy is the defending champion of a tournament that wasn’t played last year. That’s strange enough, but McIlroy actually shot a 72 on the first day of the Players Championship that was later canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic a year ago this week. “I think
Geraint Thomas is looking forward to testing himself against a stellar line-up at the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race, which starts in Italy on Wednesday. But he will play a supporting role in Italy to team-mate Egan Bernal, Ineos’ leader at the Giro d’Italia in May. “There’s no expectation to go and win. I’ll try for sure
The huge financial windfall that comes with an IPL contract can’t be ignored, admitted Jos Buttler as the England cricketer on Tuesday asserted that the ECB never gave him the option of skipping the popular T20 League to be available for the Test series against New Zealand. Buttler has been in the eye of storm
India face England in the first T20I of the five-matches series on Friday.© Instagram England star batsman Jos Buttler feels that the Virat Kohli-led side are favourites for the ICC T20 World Cup scheduled to be played later this year in India. Buttler feels as a host nation, Team India will have an advantage in
7:14 AM ET Kathleen McNamee This article is part of ESPN’s coverage of Women’s History Month. When Natasha Jonas met Ireland’s Katie Taylor at the 2012 London Olympics, the stadium was quite literally rocking. At 113.7 decibels the noise was as loud as a rock concert, which happens to be four decibels greater than the
8:30 AM ET Saturday night’s superfight at UFC 259 did not produce a double champion, but it did provide one of the fighters with a ticket to the ESPN pound-for-pound MMA rankings. Jan Blachowicz came away from the weekend still in possession of the UFC light heavyweight championship and as a new entrant in the
6:38 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots will be acquiring offensive tackle Trent Brown from the Las Vegas Raiders in a trade after agreeing to a restructured one-year contract worth up to $11 million with him, sources tell ESPN’s Field Yates. Brown, 27, previously played for the Patriots in 2018, starting every