5:12 AM GMT ESPN staff The South African Rugby Union (SA Rugby) has reaffirmed its commitment to the Rugby Championship for the next decade, tournament organisers SANZAAR said on Wednesday, bringing an end to speculation that the three-time Rugby World Cup winners may look to join Europe’s Six Nations. The four-nation SANZAAR alliance faced turmoil
9:00 AM ET Rennes could be forgiven for thinking they had seen the last of Petr Cech. The legendary goalkeeper’s announcement in January 2019 that he would retire at the end of that season turned Arsenal‘s deep Europa League run into a personal farewell tour that took him back to where it all began for
5:03 AM ET The Ladies European Tour postponed two tournaments on Tuesday which were due to be held in Australia in February, 2021 due to the ongoing travel restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Geoff King Motors Australian Ladies Classic and the Women’s New South Wales Open were set to kick off the 2021 season,
5:24 AM GMT Australia has the young talent to potentially build the best front row in the world, new scrum coach Petrus Du Plessis said a few days after meeting the players in person for the first time. The South African-born former prop followed head coach Dave Rennie from Glasgow Warriors and has been impressed
If the last IPL 2020 league matches were to be taken as a guideline, Delhi Capitals should be a happier bunch. They came up with a critical win in that contest, going past Royal Challengers Bangalore at a canter to make it to the No. 2 spot on the list. Mumbai Indians, who qualified way
4:20 PM ET NFL trade deadline day, as is often the case, came and went Tuesday with more fizzle than sizzle. A few big names got kicked around, but there wasn’t much late movement, and not many people were surprised. This year more than ever, with COVID-19 testing requirements delaying the availability of new player
3:01 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Hall of Fame pitchers Dizzy Dean and Don Drysdale are candidates for the Hall’s Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting, along with Fox’s Joe Buck, ESPN’s Dan Shulman and NBC’s Al Michaels. Dave Campbell, Ernesto Jerez and Buddy Blattner also are finalists, the Hall
8:56 PM ET After watching Mookie Betts make spectacular play after spectacular play in the postseason — including two home run robberies and a key catch of a sinking liner in Game 5 of the NLCS — it should come as no surprise that Betts is the National League Gold Glove winner for right field.
8:00 AM ET Welcome back to our weekly Heisman Watch for the 2020 college football season. Throughout the season, ESPN.com writers will vote on their top Heisman Trophy candidates. To get the final rankings, we use the following methodology: 15 voters, five votes each. Points system: five points for first-place votes, four points for second-place
8:32 PM ET PGA Tour player Harry Higgs has tested positive for COVID-19 and has withdrawn from this week’s Vivint Houston Open. Higgs, 28, who is in his second season on the PGA Tour and won on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2019, last played at the Zozo Championship at Sherwood two weeks ago, where
5:31 PM ET The World Boxing Council has ordered junior bantamweight titleholder Juan Francisco “El Gallo” Estrada to start negotiating a mandatory defense against former titlist Srisaket Sor Rungvisai. Estrada was hoping to get a rematch against fellow titlist Roman Chocolatito” Gonzalez in the early part of 2021, but the WBC decision could delay that
7:55 PM ET The long-awaited battle between WBC junior lightweight titleholder Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez scheduled for Dec. 12 in Las Vegas, could be in jeopardy after Berchelt tested positive for COVID-19, sources close to Berchelt’s camp told ESPN on Tuesday. Berchelt (37-1, 33 KOs) was tested as part of the weekly monitoring for
Nov 3, 2020 Associated Press PARIS — Ugo Humbert upset second-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas following a hard-fought contest of more than three hours to reach the third round at the Paris Masters on Tuesday. The 34th-ranked Frenchman won 7-6 (4), 6-7 (6), 7-6 (3) for one of the biggest wins of his young career. Humbert was
4:32 PM ET There are moments when the focus of an international manager veers decidedly toward near-term concerns. Who is in form? Who is fit? Who is the next opponent? But there are also those occasions when a manager can allow him or herself to scan the horizon and look to the future. In the
5:44 PM ET Eddie Johnson, the two-time All-Star for the Atlanta Hawks whose career was shortened by arrests which led to a ban from the NBA and life sentence in prison, has died. He was 65. Johnson passed away on Oct. 26. His death was confirmed Tuesday by Rocker-Cusack Mortuary in Leesburg, Florida. Johnson was
4:22 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau isn’t the only player headed to Augusta National next week thinking about using different equipment to attack the course that is home to the Masters. Phil Mickelson said he is making changes, too. Mickelson said Tuesday on a podcast hosted by Callaway Golf that he plans to put a driver
4:02 PM ET Dallas Stars goaltender Ben Bishop and center Tyler Seguin had surgery and will each miss approximately five months, the team said Tuesday. Bishop, who did not play in the Stanley Cup Final against eventual champion Tampa Bay after being deemed “unfit to play,” had surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his
6:45 AM ET ESPN staff The NFL trade deadline — 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Nov. 3 — is approaching, and teams have been making moves for the last few months. A few 2021 NFL draft picks were dealt, and the Jacksonville Jaguars were busy, including trading pass-rusher Yannick Ngakoue to the Minnesota Vikings. Elsewhere,