IND vs ENG: Umesh Yadav’s fitness test will be conducted in two days time.© Twitter Senior India fast bowler Umesh Yadav’s fitness test, which will be conducted in two days time, will determine if he can join Jasprit Bumrah and Ishant Sharma in a three-prong India pace attack for the upcoming day-night Test against England.
11:02 AM ET The Carolina Panthers have informed starting safety Tre Boston on Friday that they are releasing him, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Boston, 28, was third on the Panthers with 95 tackles last season. He also had an interception, a sack and two fumble recoveries. Boston has played seven seasons with the
11:26 AM GMT Ireland’s Caelan Doris is unlikely to return for the remainder of the Six Nations after coach Andy Farrell said the Leinster back-rower would be out for the “foreseeable future” because of concussion symptoms. Doris, 22, had been named in the initial 37-man squad for the tournament but was withdrawn after reporting symptoms
10:00 AM ET Last week, I ranked the top 100 prospects and all 30 farm systems heading into the 2021 season. Now it’s time to go deeper with my team-by-team rankings, wrapping up with the National League following Thursday’s American League lists. A quick refresher on a key term you’ll see throughout the team lists:
7:00 AM ET Brett Peterson first fell in love with hockey because of its entrances. He would sit in the stands before a college hockey game, watching the lights in the arena dim and listening to the music grow louder, as spotlights followed every player onto the ice when their name was announced for pregame
7:27 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James and Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant were named the captains for next month’s NBA All-Star Game on Thursday night. James and Durant will pick their respective teams from the remaining 22 All-Stars between now and the All-Star Game, which the NBA officially announced earlier
8:52 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — While it’s not easy to fly under the radar as the fourth seed at a Grand Slam, Daniil Medvedev has managed to do exactly that at this year’s Australian Open. In a tournament beset by drama two weeks before a ball was even hit, the rangy Russian somehow avoided
IPL 2021 Auction: Chetan Sakariya was picked up by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.2 crore.© Instagram The IPL 2021 Auction witnessed another rags to riches story as uncapped left-arm fast bowler Chetan Sakariya was bought for Rs 1.2 crore by Rajasthan Royals. Despite a hugely successful auction, Chetan Sakariya feels a huge void as he lost
6:09 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Daniil Medvedev simply does not lose right now. Not to Top 10 opponents. Not to anyone, really. Certainly not to a drained Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Australian Open semifinals. Now let’s see what happens against Novak Djokovic. Medvedev made it to his second Grand Slam final as
7:00 AM ET Trying to play one football season during a pandemic is daunting enough. But parts of three seasons potentially … all in a span of a year? And with three different head coaches squeezed into a four-month window? Welcome to Austin Peay‘s world. “Honestly, it’s been a blessing, just to have football all
6:59 AM ET Did you enjoy your college football offseason? Get a lot done? Get the flowers planted? Reconnect with your family and (non-football) friends? Decompress a bit? Good, because the offseason is over. Sort of. The Football Championship Subdivision, which had its championships and most of its games canceled or postponed last fall, gets
7:00 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN The seduction of Frank Espinoza — of Simmons Avenue in East LA, an occasional member of the City Terrace gang, son of a welder whose hands had been mangled by arthritis — began when he was a teenager, sometime in the mid-’60s, upon his maiden voyage to the Grand Olympic
3:40 AM ET Jose Mourinho could be spared until the end of the season, as Tottenham Hotspur ponder his future — ESPN’s Insider Notebook has the latest. PLUS: Why Man United passed on Dayot Upamecano. Jump to: Man United passed on Upamecano | Alaba to Madrid not certain | Lazio to face relegation over COVID?
Alpha Tauri have set themselves the target of running consistently at the front of the midfield in 2021 as they launched their new AT02 car. Alpha Tauri, who won the Italian Grand Prix with Pierre Gasly last year, finished seventh in the championship. Team boss Franz Tost said: “In 2020, we were fighting against other
1:22 AM ET Kenley Jansen watched from the bullpen as Julio Urias, a 24-year-old starting pitcher, preserved a two-run lead and recorded a save in the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ long-awaited championship clincher last fall. Jansen, a three-time All-Star, had proven too unreliable in the postseason, leaving outsiders to wonder if his reign as the Dodgers’
2:10 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka won the Australian Open women’s doubles final Friday night to collect a second Grand Slam title as a team. Mertens of Belgium and Sabalenka of Belarus had a 6-2, 6-3 win over the third-seeded Czech team of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova.
1:10 AM ET ESPN NBA reporters The Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers entered Thursday’s game with plenty of star power even with the Nets missing Kevin Durant and the Lakers without Anthony Davis. Besides Davis, LeBron James and the Lakers were also without starting point guard Dennis Schroder Thursday night. James faced Kyrie Irving,
Preity Zinta let out an animated reaction after buying Shahrukh Khan in IPL 2021 auction.© Instagram Punjab Kings went into the Indian Premier League (IPL) player auction with the biggest purse among all franchises — Rs 53.20 crore. They roped in as many as nine players to strengthen their squad ahead of the 14th edition