8:00 AM ET The 2020-21 Premier League title race has now become a battle for second place with Manchester City stretching their lead at the top to 12 points over the weekend. A win at home to Wolves on Tuesday would take City 15 points clear of the pack and register their 21st consecutive victory
7:00 AM ET “Nobody knows what I’ve been doing since I left the game,” Theo Fleury says. “Everyone thinks I’m still this crazy person with problems and issues, but I’ve actually been trying to figure it out.” Fleury last played in the NHL in 2003; he was suspended by the league for violating its substance
12:17 PM ET Macklemore (aka Ben Haggerty) has fallen hard for golf. Now, when he sits up straight in bed, it isn’t because he thought of new rap lyrics: It’s about golf. But don’t get things twisted. He didn’t always feel this way. And that’s how this conversation starts, with me calling him out! Collins:
6:54 AM ET IT WAS OCT. 25, 2020, and Daniel Cormier was in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, talking to UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, who had shocked the MMA world the previous night by tearfully announcing his retirement in the Octagon after defeating Justin Gaethje. There was plenty for the old friends to talk
9:00 AM ET College football recruiting remains a marathon and not a sprint. Over the coming months, rankings will change, especially with challenges that continue to be presented because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One thing is clear, though: There is no one path to success on the recruiting trail. Alabama‘s 2021 class, for example, finished
Feb 1, 2021 It wasn’t close on Saturday night, and as expected, Canelo Alvarez took care of WBC mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim to retain his titles. Immediately after the fight, Alvarez’s next fight was announced — a unification bout against Billy Joe Saunders. Will Alvarez achieve his goal of unifying the super middleweight division in
7:10 AM GMT Waratahs assistant coach Chris Whitaker says it’s the COVID pandemic and not the lack of player development that has thrust his franchise into arguably its deepest hole of the professional era. The Waratahs were on Saturday night hammered 61-10 by the Brumbies in Canberra, the record margin against their southern rivals coming
Briton Jamie Chadwick will continue as Williams’ development driver for a third season in 2021. The team said the 22-year-old would increase her programme in the simulator and be “fully immersed” both trackside and at the factory at grands prix. Chadwick, whose target is to race in F1 one day, said: “I have absolutely loved
Shahid Afridi played in 27 Tests, 398 ODIs and 99 T20Is for Pakistan.© Twitter Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi took to social media to thank his fans for their birthday wishes, and once again created confusion regarding his age. According to ICC’s official website, Afridi was born on March 1, 1980, which makes him
1:03 AM GMT Super Rugby Aotearoa roared into life over the weekend, with wins for competition favourites the Crusaders as well as the team that might finally be able to push them, the Blues. Super Rugby AU was into its second week and again it was the title fancies, the Reds and Brumbies who triumphed,
10:10 PM ET With 24 seconds left in a 1-point game, the Milwaukee Bucks came out of a timeout and passed the ball five times, moving it around until it returned to Giannis Antetokounmpo‘s hands. With the LA Clippers defense in full scramble mode and leaving the paint as wide open as a runway, Antetokounmpo
12:55 PM ET BRADENTON, Fla. — Several players showed up wearing a red shirt and black pants Sunday in honor of Tiger Woods for the final round of the WGC-Workday Championship. Tony Finau probably handled it the best, wearing a red mock golf shirt, black pants and his Nike hat backwards — as Woods has
4:44 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Nelly Korda seized control with three early birdies and finished with 12 straight pars for a 3-under 69 to win the Gainbridge LPGA on Sunday, giving the Korda family two victories to start the season. Her older sister, Jessica, won the season-opening Tournament of Champions last month
10:46 PM ET ESPN News Services PHILADELPHIA — Irv Cross, the former Pro Bowl defensive back who became the first Black man to work full time as a sports analyst on national television with CBS, died Sunday. He was 81. The Philadelphia Eagles, the team Cross spent his six of his nine seasons with, said
10:08 PM ET The U.S. Soccer Federation Athletes’ Council, which represents the interests of athletes within the USSF, announced that it has removed Seth Jahn from the council after he made racially charged comments at the USSF Annual General Meeting on Saturday. At a meeting on Sunday, the Athletes’ Council determined that Jahn, who previously
9:37 PM ET ESPN News Services ABERDEEN, Md. — Vi Ripken, matriarch of the famed Orioles family that includes Hall of Fame son Cal Ripken Jr., has died. She was 82. Family spokesman John Maroon said Sunday that she died on Friday, a day before her birthday, in Aberdeen, where a youth stadium carries the
7:43 PM ET Associated Press HOMESTEAD, Fla. — William Byron gave NASCAR its third surprise winner in three weeks, this one not quite as stunning as the first two at Daytona International Speedway. Byron controlled most of the final two stages at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday and won for the second time in 111 Cup
7:54 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Kevin Sutherland was not really hitting it well, not making a whole lot putts, yet kept hanging around. A chip-in birdie on Tucson National’s 16th hole changed everything. The only birdie of the final round on the par-3 not only put Sutherland in a tie for the