8:52 PM ET ESPN News Services SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will let fans back in outdoor stadiums for pro sporting events in counties with low coronavirus infection rates, the state’s top health official said Tuesday. San Francisco and neighboring Alameda and Santa Clara are the only counties that meet the threshold for pro sports. However,
9:09 PM ET Steve KimESPN Recently dethroned lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko underwent right shoulder surgery on Monday, according to his manager, Egis Klimas. Lomachenko previously had surgery on his right shoulder in May 2018. Klimas said this surgery was the result of both a preexisting ailment and an injury Lomachenko suffered during the second round
11:43 AM ET The Miami Dolphins are naming Tua Tagovailoa their starting quarterback, a league source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Ryan Fitzpatrick now will back up Tagovailoa, who made his NFL debut Sunday in a win against the New York Jets. The Dolphins are on bye this week, but return on Nov. 1 to face
8:08 PM ET Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Kyle Berkshire spent two years playing for the University of North Texas before his golf path switched over to power, and he capped his remarkable surge by winning the World Long Drive Championship last year. He is a main inspiration for U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau,
8:11 PM ET THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Tiger Woods is defending his Zozo Championship title this week with an eye on the Masters in three weeks. And the run-up to what usually is the first major championship of the year is strange to say the least, he said. So odd, in fact, that Woods said
6:56 PM ET Star Richmond forward Jack Riewoldt believes the club has grown stronger and closer after overcoming a series of controversies this year. The Tigers have the chance to cement themselves as one of the great modern-day teams when they take on Geelong in Saturday’s AFL Grand Final. 1 Related Richmond won the flag
6:23 PM BST New Zealand, England and Canada have been confirmed as the top three seeds for the women’s 2021 Rugby World Cup after the game’s governing body opted to use rankings from the start of the year with southern hemisphere teams unable to play due to COVID-19 curbs. The draw for the tournament will
4:52 PM ET Manchester United made the perfect start to their Champions League campaign with a 2-1 win away at Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday. Marcus Rashford netted three minutes from time, 18 months after scoring the decisive goal in a 3-1 win at PSG that sent United into the quarterfinals after a 2-0 first-leg home
12:22 PM ET The Indiana Pacers have agreed to a multiyear deal to hire Toronto Raptors assistant Nate Bjorkgren as their head coach, sources told ESPN. The Pacers officially named Bjorkgren as their new head coach Tuesday but did not disclose terms of his deal. Bjorkgren, a disciple of reigning NBA Coach of the Year
7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN The two best teams in baseball meet in the 2020 World Series, with the Los Angeles Dodgers, in the Fall Classic for the third time in four years, looking for their first title since 1988, and the Tampa Bay Rays looking for their first crown in their second World Series
7:00 AM ET The calendar says it’s late October. The colors of leaves and the emergence of sweaters say the same. But here on Planet College Football, the concept of time is hard to grasp. The game’s internal clock needs a reboot. The coronavirus pandemic has taken our mileposts and shuffled them like a deck
6:45 AM ET Jeremy Fowler Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Previously a college football reporter for CBSSports.com University of Florida graduate Dan Graziano Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPN in 2011 New Jersey native and author of two published novels NFL coaching carousel news? Already? Week 6 just ended. Can’t we let this
IPL 2020, KXIP vs DC: Nicholas Pooran hits a shot during his side’s chase© Twitter Nicholas Pooran‘s fantastic knock in Kings XI Punjab’s (KXIP) win over Delhi Capitals (DC) in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 received plenty of attention, with Sachin Tendulkar taking to Twitter to speak highly of him. Comparing him to
1:09 PM ET Associated Press BEVERLY, Mass. — Dozens of items of sports memorabilia collected by Peter Frates, whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped spread the ALS ice bucket challenge, are being auctioned to help people still fighting the disease. Frates, a former Boston College baseball player who lived in Beverly north of Boston,
Two-time winner Chris Froome struggled as Slovenia’s defending champion Primoz Roglic took the opening stage of Vuelta a Espana. Briton Froome, 35, in his final Vuelta for Ineos Grenadiers, was dropped on the penultimate climb and is more than 11 minutes behind the leader. Roglic pipped a small pack including Ineos’ Richard Carapaz and Irish
10:44 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim Bellator MMA announced on Thursday that it will resume its featherweight grand prix next month, starting with Patricio Freire defending his 145-pound championship in a grand prix quarterfinal against Pedro Carvalho in the main event of Bellator 252 on Nov. 12. Freire, who competes under the nickname “Pitbull,” is No.
11:52 AM ET UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov said Tuesday that Georges St-Pierre is the only person he’d be motivated to fight after Saturday’s bout against interim champ Justin Gaethje. “I really become excited when I think about Georges St-Pierre,” Nurmagomedov said on ESPN’s First Take. “I don’t know if he wants to fight with
9:09 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Chase Briscoe earned job security for the first time in his career with a well-deserved promotion to the Cup Series to cap a season that has so far been storybook. Briscoe on Tuesday was named the replacement for Clint Bowyer in the No. 14 Ford at Stewart-Haas