5:57 PM GMT France scrum-half and star player Antoine Dupont is set to miss his side’s Six Nations game against Scotland after testing positive for COVID-19 on Friday. All the players in the 31-man squad had been tested and so far 11 had been negative, with Dupont the only one to return a positive test,
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5:56 PM GMT Wales have called up prop WillGriff John to their Six Nations squad to replace the injured Dillon Lewis, the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) announced on Friday. Lewis will miss the rest of the Six Nations campaign after sustaining a neck injury. – Play ESPN’s Rugby Pick’em for FREE Sale Sharks’ John, 28,
7:43 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Jennifer Brady prepared for the Australian Open in a 355-square-foot hotel room. Following a positive test for coronavirus from a passenger on her charter flight upon arriving in Melbourne, Brady was forbidden from leaving the room and was required to self-isolate for 14 days. No access to tennis courts. No
2:48 PM ET A UFC fighter missed weight Friday by a record amount. Rafael Alves weighed in at 157.5 pounds for a scheduled featherweight bout against Patrick Sabatini. The limit for a non-title featherweight fight in MMA is 146 pounds, so Alves weighed 11.5 pounds over the contracted mark. It was the biggest weight miss
Ineos Grenadiers’ Tao Geoghegan Hart was involved in a crash but recovered to finish the opening stage of the Tour du Haut Var, won by Bauke Mollema. The British 2020 Giro d’Italia champion finished in 38th place, 14 seconds down, in the three-day race in France. Welshman Geraint Thomas, 34, was Ineos’ first rider home,
1:22 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell was rewarded Friday with a sponsorship increase from CarParts.com. The online parts sales company was already part of McDowell’s program at Front Row Motorsports but was still working on its 2021 budget when the NASCAR season began Sunday with the Daytona
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
1:19 AM ET Los Angeles Lakers star forward Anthony Davis had his injuries reevaluated by team doctors Thursday night and will be out four weeks, head coach Frank Vogel said. Sources had told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski earlier this week that Davis would be reevaluated in two to three weeks after suffering a calf strain and
11:14 AM GMT Nine minutes of brilliance were all the Queensland Reds needed to spark the new-look Super Rugby AU season into life during a crushing 41-7 home win over the NSW Waratahs. The hosts had scored 24 of their points by the 18th minute but only after the Waratahs had scored first – their
England fast bowlers are “dying to get” their hands on the pink ball ahead of the day-night third Test against India, fast bowler Mark Wood said on Friday. With the four-match series level at 1-1, the teams will play their first floodlit Test against each other in next week’s inaugural match at Ahmedabad’s new 1,10,000-capacity
Brazilian Pietro Fittipaldi is to stay on as reserve driver at Haas this year. Fittipaldi, 24, replaced the injured Romain Grosjean in the final two grands prix last season following the Frenchman’s fiery crash at Bahrain. The grandson of two-time world champion Emerson Fittipaldi finished 17th in the Sakhir race and 19th in Abu Dhabi.
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:
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
8:10 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim The sport of mixed martial arts has evolved through the years to the point where nowadays most professional fighters, especially those at or near the top of the heap, are proficient at mixing together an array of combative styles. But when the sport was young and drawing its athletes from
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
9:33 AM ET Lionel Messi is one of the best to ever play the game, and he has three clubs to choose from when his contract expires this summer. ESPN Illustration Lionel Messi needs little introduction: he’ll go down in history as one of the best to ever play soccer, with six Ballons d’Ors to his
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