London Irish chief executive Brian Facer is to leave in the new year for the same role at British Cycling. Facer, 50, will succeed Julie Harrington in January, having been with London Irish since October 2017. Despite relegation from the Premiership in his first season, the former Northampton Saints commercial director oversaw promotion a year
6:40 AM ET AUGUSTA, GA. — How different will Augusta National Golf Club be in November, compared to its traditional Masters date in April? It will be a Masters tournament unlike any other. 2 Related With the coronavirus pandemic pushing the Masters back nearly seven months, the course figures to be longer, softer and less
9:28 AM ET It will be hard for Dana White’s Contender Series to top last week. In the eighth episode of the show’s fourth season, all four fights ended in KO/TKOs and every winner won a UFC contract. The athletes on Tuesday’s edition of DWCS will attempt to continue that run. With just one episode
Britain’s Alex Dowsett will attempt to regain cycling’s hour record in December. Dowsett, 32, held the record for riding the furthest in one hour in 2015. The Israel Start-Up Nation rider will try to beat the current record of 55.039km set by Belgian Victor Campenaerts in Mexico in 2019. “It’s going to be a very
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 Kell Brook has insisted he has not been distracted or concerned by weight issues ahead of facing Terence Crawford on Saturday. There were doubts
6:55 AM ET NFL NationESPN We’re officially at the midpoint of the 2020 season, so the NFL Power Rankings are reevaluating things. Along with our weekly rankings, we’ve asked every NFL Nation reporter to recalibrate expectations for the team they cover. Some are lofty (we see you, K.C.), some are modest (sorry, Jets) and others
8:30 AM ET Tommy Bennett did not want to caddie for Tiger Woods at the 1995 Masters. “I didn’t want no damn amateur,” he recalls. “I wanted that green jacket.” He wanted to carry for Dicky Pride, a promising young pro who had won a PGA Tour event the previous summer in Memphis, Tennessee. But
7:05 AM ET Before Khalil Mack was a Pro Bowl linebacker in the NFL, he was a 2013 first-team All-American, a first-team All-MAC player three times and the 2013 conference Defensive Player of the Year. Perhaps the most impressive part was that Mack did all of this at Buffalo. Mack, who went from lightly recruited
6:29 PM ET Reliever Devin Williams of the Brewers has been named NL Rookie of the Year. Other finalists for the award were Phillies 3B Alec Bohm and Padres 2B Jake Cronenworth. They finished tied for second. Williams allowed just one run in 27 innings in the shortened season and struck out 53% of the
10:55 AM ET As their most recent squad announcement for this month’s matches against Wales and Panama showed, the United States men’s national team has some exciting individual talents coming through. With an average age of 21 years, 10 months, the likes of Christian Pulisic and Giovanni Reyna will take the headlines, but a team
Australian great Steve Waugh said Tuesday he was surprised and disappointed that India captain Virat Kohli will miss three Tests to be at the birth of his first child, with his absence detracting from the blockbuster series. The 32-year-old and his Bollywood star wife Anushka Sharma are expecting a child in January, and Kohli has
11:59 PM ET The NBA and players’ union have reached an agreement in principle to begin the 2020-21 season, the two sides announced Monday night. The deal calls for free agency to begin Friday, Nov. 20, at 6 p.m. ET, two days after next week’s NBA draft. As was agreed to last week, the regular
11:30 PM ET The New England Patriots‘ 2020 season, on life support while facing a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter against the winless New York Jets, has been revived. For another week, at least. The Patriots stopped a four-game losing streak by coming back to beat the Jets 30-27 on Monday, improving to 3-5
6:57 PM ET ESPN News Services Seattle Mariners center fielder Kyle Lewis is the unanimous winner of the American League Rookie of the Year award. The 25-year-old Lewis was one of baseball’s breakout stars during the pandemic-shortened season, batting .262 with 11 homers and 28 RBIs in 58 games. He led big league rookies with
8:57 PM ET Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa was charged with driving under the influence after he allegedly ran his car into a curb in February, leaving it smoking on the side of a Phoenix-area road, according to court records obtained by ESPN. It is the second known drunken driving arrest for La
5:36 PM ET Days after a staff member’s positive COVID-19 test, Pittsburgh Steelers‘ tight end Vance McDonald has returned his own positive test. The Steelers were informed of the positive test Monday morning, Steelers spokesperson Burt Lauten said in a statement. McDonald immediately self-quarantined, Lauten said, and the team remains in the intensive COVID-19 protocol.
6:19 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Authentic, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic, has been retired to stud. The 3-year-old colt will stand at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, next year for a breeding fee of $75,000. The farm is owned by B. Wayne Hughes, who co-owns Authentic with MyRacehorse,
1:55 PM ET Two-weight UFC champion Amanda Nunes has withdrawn from her featherweight title defense against Megan Anderson next month for undisclosed reasons, according to multiple sources. Nunes (20-4) was scheduled to defend her 145-pound title against Anderson (10-4) in the main event of UFC 256 on Dec. 12 in Las Vegas. The UFC has