Month: March 2022

12:49 PM ET The Saudi Arabian-financed breakaway golf league isn’t going away. LIV Golf Investments on Wednesday announced an eight-event series that will start in London in June and will feature four tournaments played in the United States. The LIV Golf Invitational Series will include seven-regular season events and a team championship match-play finale at
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11:08 AM BST England have dropped Max Malins for their final Six Nations match against France in Paris on Saturday. Malins has been ever-present through the Championship on the wing for Eddie Jones’ side, but has missed out on a spot in the 28-man squad. With Malins omitted, Elliot Daly looks primed for a spot
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11:53 AM BST Leicester Tigers have been fined £310,000 for non-compliance with salary cap regulations from 2016-17 to 2019-2020, Premiership Rugby said on Tuesday. Following an investigation into potential salary cap breaches over five seasons from 2016 to 2021, Premiership leaders Leicester were penalised for undisclosed payments to players from a third-party company via image
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9:56 AM ET Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour, who has led the department since 2014, will retire this summer, it was announced Wednesday. Barbour, 62, arrived at Penn State in July 2014 after a 10-year tenure as athletic director at Cal. She also spent 1996 to 1999 as Tulane’s athletic director before a long
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9:58 AM ET NFL teams have submitted two separate proposals to adjust overtime, the league announced Wednesday, following months of discussion about the advantage of winning the opening possession. The proposals have not yet been endorsed by the NFL’s powerful competition committee, but by rule they can be put to a vote later this month
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7:52 AM ET French Open organizers said Wednesday that Novak Djokovic is allowed to defend his title as the tournament prepares to stage what is expected to be the first Grand Slam without any coronavirus-related restrictions since the pandemic began two years ago. On Monday, France lifted restrictions in almost all public spaces, except hospitals,
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6:33 AM ET ESPN News Services A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest golf team collided head-on with a pickup truck in West Texas, killing multiple people, authorities said. The vehicles collided Tuesday night in Andrews County. Sgt. Steven Blanco of the Texas Department of Public Safety told KWES-TV there were fatalities
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8:42 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving put together one of the most impressive offensive halves of basketball in recent NBA history during Tuesday’s game against the Orlando Magic, scoring 41 points in a dominant performance. In 23 first-half minutes, Irving went 14-for-19 from the field, 6-for-7 from beyond the arc,
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