5:08 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — His opening tee shot suggested it was not going to be a fun day for Rory McIlroy. Set up to cut his drive into the 10th fairway — his first hole of the Players Championship — McIlroy hit what pros call a “double-cross” and instead hooked his
6:15 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball on Thursday outlined a litany of experimental rules it plans to implement at different minor league levels this season, including banning some forms of defensive shifts, more games governed
4:05 PM ET Former Baltimore Ravens running back Mark Ingram has reached agreement on a one-year deal worth up to $3 million with the Houston Texans, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Ingram will join a Texans backfield led by starter David Johnson, who agreed to a restructured contract to remain with the team. The
1:17 PM ET Associated Press DOHA, Qatar — Roger Federer failed to convert a match point before losing 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 to Nikoloz Basilashvili in the Qatar Open quarterfinals on Thursday, his second match back on tour after a 13-month injury layoff. Basilashvili saved a match point at 5-4 in the deciding set and then
Simon Yates lost more than a minute to his rivals, including fellow Briton Geraint Thomas, on stage two of Tirreno-Adriatico. Last year’s winner Yates (Team Bike Exchange) was part of a breakaway but lost time late on as Ineos Grenadiers’ Thomas surged up the final climb. But the Welshman was overhauled by faster finishers, as
4:19 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — In a week that has seen a sharp focus on how Manchester United buy their players, it looks like they have pulled off a coup in signing Amad Diallo. A day after the club appointed John Murtough as football director and Darren Fletcher as technical director in
Alfa Romeo team principal Frederic Vasseur is to miss this weekend’s Formula 1 pre-season test in Bahrain after a positive test for coronavirus. A statement by the Swiss-based team said Vasseur, 52, had isolated at home following the result. A second test two days later came back negative. The former Sauber boss will work from
12:51 PM GMT Centre Virimi Vakatawa is back in the starting line-up as France gear up for their Six Nations clash against England at Twickenham on Saturday. Vakatawa, who missed Les Bleus’s opening wins against Italy and Ireland with a knee injury, features alongside Gael Fickou while Matthieu Jalibert starts again at fly-half despite the
TV presenter Sanjana Ganesan is set to marry cricketer Jasprit Bumrah.© Sanjana Ganesan/Instagram India cricketer Jasprit Bumrah is set to marry Sanjana Ganesan, a TV presenter who has hosted several shows on sports broadcast. Ganesan has also hosted shows for Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders and pre-match and post-match shows on Team India
11:00 AM GMT England have made three changes for Saturday’s Six Nations match against France at Twickenham, with Max Malins starting at fullback. Malins has six caps for England, but this is his first Test start as he replaces Elliot Daly in the starting XV at No. 15. Daly drops to the bench while Luke
Tao Geoghegan Hart has returned home for further monitoring following his crash at Paris-Nice on Wednesday. The Ineos Grenadiers’ rider was assessed by the team’s medical staff but he will be monitored at home in Andorra for symptoms of concussion. He was in only his second race since winning last year’s Giro d’Italia. Geoghegan Hart
9:00 AM ET In 2020, during one of the strangest, most unpredictable seasons of college football, another twist occurred in the midst of the chaos of playing during the pandemic. Big 12 defenses were good. Yes, the Big 12 — the conference that produced Patrick Mahomes and earned a reputation as having high-flying offenses and
6:55 AM ET One of the many criticisms about New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau was that he would be unable to adapt his eat-breathe-sleep basketball ways to a new wave of young players. But after being fired by the Minnesota Timberwolves in January 2019, Thibodeau is at the start of a third basketball
8:44 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Anthony Pettis has been a champion in two MMA promotions, most notably the most star-studded in the world, the UFC. He has defeated many of the greatest lightweights in the sport, including others who also have worn the gold. The man has been on the cover of a Wheaties box!
10:17 PM ET The Detroit Red Wings‘ most recent Stanley Cup championship was 13 years ago, even if their multiyear residency in the NHL’s basement makes that memory feel protractedly distant. There were 23 players who appeared for Detroit in the 2008 playoffs. Twenty of them are retired, with three having been subsequently enshrined in
Akshdeep Nath’s tight seam-up stuff along with a useful half-century helped Uttar Pradesh defeat Gujarat by five wickets to reach the Vijay Hazare Trophy final after 16 long years. They will meet Mumbai in the final at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Sunday. Opting to bat at the Ferozshah Kotla, Gujarat top-order put up an
8:30 AM ET Jurgen Klinsmann Jurgen Klinsmann won the World Cup and European Championship with Germany during a glittering career in which he played for Inter, Tottenham and Bayern, among others. As a coach, he led Germany to a third-place finish at the 2006 World Cup and managed the U.S. men’s national team from 2011-16.
7:00 AM ET Deshaun Watson’s emergence at Clemson catapulted the Tigers to the top of college football. Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports One could easily make the case that, as with the UEFA Champions League in soccer, the creation of the College Football Playoff took a sport already defined by its haves-versus-have-nots divisions and increased them.