The 2021 Formula 1 season is nearly upon us, but first there is the small matter of car launches and pre-season testing to look forward to. Testing for the new campaign looks a little different this year, with just one three-day session starting on 12 March for teams and drivers to fine-tune their new cars.
9:50 AM GMT England centre Jonathan Joseph has been handed a two-week suspension for breaching COVID-19 government rules. Joseph and his Bath teammate Elliott Stooke, alongside Wasps’ Gabriel Oghre were all charged by the RFU for “off-field infringements of the Government’s National Covid-19 Rules and related to mixing of multiple households, with two players travelling
8:10 AM ET A new main event was set late on Thursday as the light heavyweight title fight between Joe Smith Jr. and Maxim Vlasov was canceled due to COVID-19. There won’t be a title on the line, but heavy punchers will seize the main event spotlight as Richard Commey and Jackson Marinez (ESPN+, Sat.,
Shannon Gabriel claimed two wickets and Alzarri Joseph complemented his brilliant batting with a prized scalp, to put the West Indies firmly on top in the second Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka on Friday. The West Indies reduced Bangladesh to 105-4 at stumps on the second day after posting 409 runs in their first innings,
7:00 AM ET This is the final installment of a four-part series on the life, death and safety legacy of Dale Earnhardt, 20 years after his fatal crash at the 2001 Daytona 500. THE WORLD HAS not seen Ryan Newman‘s 2020 Daytona 500 race car in nearly a year. The last time any of us
7:00 AM ET One day after ranking the top 100 individual prospects in baseball heading into the 2021 MLB season, it’s time to turn our attention to each team’s farm system as a whole. These rankings of all 30 organizations were done, for the most part, the same way last year’s were. In short, while
7:00 AM ET As high-level hockey tries to trudge through the COVID-19 pandemic, its players have been forced to adapt — and accept isolation as a lifestyle. One player who knows this well is Winnipeg Jets prospect Cole Perfetti. The 19-year-old has spent 34 days quarantining over the past three months, and since Nov. 15,
7:00 AM ET HE SHOULD HAVE been a priority for SMU. In 2013, Ra’Shaad Samples was a four-star receiver at Dallas’ Skyline High School. Playing for his father, Reginald, a Dallas-area football legend, he had an encyclopedic knowledge of Texas football and grew up with a love of the city’s football culture. While Samples fielded
5:31 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer is defending his hiring of Chris Doyle, a former strength coach at the University of Iowa who was accused of making racist remarks, belittling and bullying players. Meyer’s decision to hire Doyle as the team’s director of sports performance came to light Thursday when
2:50 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors star guard Stephen Curry is happy to let his game do the talking as it pertains to the MVP race this season. Curry, 32, is in the midst of one of the best stretches of his career, averaging 35.3 points a game and shooting 53-for-101 from
2:14 AM ET Alexander Zverev needed just 1 hour, 43 minutes to defeat Adrian Mannarino on Friday at Rod Laver Arena and move on to the fourth round of the Australian Open. Zverev, the No. 6 seed who made the semifinals of last year’s tournament, had 19 aces and 35 winners en route to a
6:55 AM ET IT WAS SEPTEMBER 2020, and UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman raised some eyebrows as he entered the Sanford MMA gym in Deerfield Beach, Florida. It was his first visit since he changed teams in the spring. There was talk of Usman defending his title in December against former training partner and current
Questions were raised over Rohit Sharma’s form after he scored six and 12 runs in the first Test match against England, but India Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane has backed the opener to come good in the upcoming games. Rahane on Friday said that one or two bad games don’t define Rohit’s form. The vice-captain praised
Fernando Alonso sustained a fracture of his upper jaw in his cycling accident on Thursday, his Alpine team say. The 39-year-old two-time world champion had a “successful corrective operation” on Thursday and will remain in hospital for observation for 48 hours. The team added: “The medical team are satisfied with his progress. After a few
3:38 AM ET Manchester United are targeting Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane, among others, to sort their leaky defence — ESPN’s Insider Notebook has the latest. PLUS: Barcelona search for the next Christian Pulisic. Jump to: Barca step up attempts to find next Pulisic, Hoppe | Man Utd starlet Shoretire wanted by Barca | Font’s election
8:48 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — What should have been a tune-up for the Daytona 500 might have cost Hendrick Motorsports the front row for NASCAR’s season-opening spectacular. Alex Bowman and William Byron were slated to lead the the Daytona 500 to the green flag but that’s in trouble following Thursday night’s
10:44 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge grew up in Eugene, Ore., and after a stellar four-year career at BYU, made his living over his 14-year NBA career as a tough, hard-nosed guard who could shoot. Decades later, Ainge fell in love during the draft process with another Oregon
9:15 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Tennis fans will be locked out of the Australian Open from 11:59pm Friday [AEST] as the state of Victoria prepares for a five-day lockdown amid a growing COVID-19 cluster in the city’s suburbs. The state’s outbreak began at Melbourne Airport’s Holiday Inn last week and has now risen to