9:44 AM ET METAIRIE, La. — Drew Brees will return to the New Orleans Saints‘ starting lineup in time for Sunday’s marquee matchup against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Saints believe Brees is fully healthy and doctors have cleared him to play, the source told Schefter.
2:32 PM ET The UFC is finalizing an important bantamweight fight for early 2021, as Cory Sandhagen and Frankie Edgar have verbally agreed to meet on Feb. 6, sources told ESPN on Friday. The fight represents a meeting between two of the best 135-pounders in the world. Sandhagen (13-2) is coming off a second-round TKO
1:53 PM GMT Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones faces a race against time to be fit for the start of next year’s Six Nations after he was ruled out for up to 10 weeks with a knee problem. Ospreys lock Jones, who is test rugby’s most capped player and has played 143 internationals, suffered the
1:53 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Stan Bowman has a new job title and the same goal to set the Blackhawks back on a championship course. He insists no one is hungrier than he is to see it happen. “I’m very determined, very focused and extremely competitive,” Bowman said Friday. “The challenge is what’s
7:00 AM ET IT WAS THE middle of September, and Shaun Wade sat at his kitchen table in Jacksonville, Florida, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Again. He wasn’t at Ohio State, for one. He wasn’t playing football at all, for another. This being 2020, football in the Big Ten, like so much
2:06 PM GMT England fly-half Katy Daley-Mclean, who led the women’s team to World Cup victory in 2014, announced her international retirement on Friday. Daley-Mclean played 116 times for England and became the third-most capped English player after Sarah Hunter and Rochelle Clark when the Red Roses beat France in their November internationals. Her decision
UK Sport decisions on funding for Paris 2024 signal a move towards greater diversity and winning “the right way”, says chair Dame Katherine Grainger. British sports will receive £352m for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, split across 43 sports. New additions like surfing and skateboarding have been funded while some traditional sports have
2:52 AM ET Associated Press ESPN will open its Sunday Night Baseball schedule on April 4 when the Los Angeles Angels host the Chicago White Sox. The game will feature the past two American League MVPs, with the Angels’ Mike Trout facing reigning MVP and White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu at 8:30 p.m. ET.
The South Africa team will assemble in Pretoria for preparations on Saturday.© Twitter Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Friday announced that two members of the Proteas squad have tested positive for coronavirus, ahead of the team’s entry into the Bio-Secure Environment for the Test series against Sri Lanka. “Cricket South Africa (CSA) can confirm that
12:00 PM ET Juventus midfielder Weston McKennie has been named U.S. Soccer’s Male Player of the Year for 2020. McKennie, 22, received 44% of the tabulated votes, followed by Christian Pulisic (27%) and Sergiño Dest (14%). – Connelly: Why Pulisic & Co. are on course to make a run in ’22– Stream ESPN FC Daily
5:47 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Alex Cora is expecting to see the J.D. Martinez of old again in 2021. And the Red Sox manager wouldn’t be surprised if Andrew Benintendi and Eduardo Rodríguez bounce back with him. Cora predicted better things from some of the Boston players who had an off year during
10:00 AM ET ESPN News Services The Tampa Bay Rays have signed right-hander Michael Wacha to a one-year, $3 million contract, the team announced Friday. Wacha spent the 2020 season with the New York Mets, going 1-4 with a 6.62 ERA in eight appearances (seven starts). The 29-year-old Wacha shined as a rookie for the
Ravichandran Ashwin is forever ready to learn from his peers but has his own way of finding the formula for success as he believes that there are “many ways to skin a cat”. Ashwin’s fine figures of 4 for 55, including the big wicket of Steve Smith, helped India gain a foothold on the second
9:00 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Callum Smith is not the first English boxer to face Canelo Alvarez. In fact, he’s not even the first person in his family to
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says there is no rush to finalise Lewis Hamilton’s new contract and it could wait until well into the new year. Hamilton’s deal runs out at the end of 2020 and talks are at an early stage. Wolff said: “We are not worried about eventually getting it done. We
9:00 AM ET Major League Baseball’s decision to alter the status of the Negro Leagues to major league and incorporate Negro Leagues statistics into a historical record in which they did not participate is consistent with two opposing but defining forces of our time. One is the racial reckoning that has defined America post-George Floyd’s
Sergio Perez has signed to race for Red Bull alongside Max Verstappen in 2021. The 30-year-old Mexican, who took his maiden Formula 1 win in the Sakhir Grand Prix this month, replaces British-Thai Alex Albon, who will stay with the team as reserve driver. Red Bull decided Albon had not performed strongly enough in his
8:50 AM ET The UFC’s final event of 2020, which takes place Saturday in Las Vegas, was originally supposed to feature one of the scariest unranked welterweights on the planet against an established, veteran opponent. Well, even though the main event did change, the storyline around it remained the same. Two-time 170-pound title challenger Stephen