1:36 PM BST Kathleen McNamee Exeter Chiefs are to review their name and logo at the club’s next board meeting at the end of July, sources have confirmed to ESPN. The decision to review the name and logo came after two petitions were set up — one to maintain the name and logo and one
7:15 AM ET FIVE EXECUTIVES FROM Octagon and two others from Major League Baseball’s player marketing team traveled to Tampa, Florida, to meet with Gleyber Torres in January. They rented a private room near the back of a fancy steakhouse and spent five hours talking about his brand potential. Meetings like these are hardly ever
Shai Hope brings out a smile in the nets © Getty Images When Shai Hope plays against England, one word comes up more than any other: Headingley. By and large, Hope’s Test career is discussed in terms of one match, in which his twin hundreds led West Indies to a memorable win in 2017. But
9:30 AM ET NFL NationESPN The deadline for teams to sign franchise-tagged players to extensions is Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET, and 13 players still are awaiting new deals, including Dak Prescott and Derrick Henry. If the players do not agree to new contracts, they will play this season on the tag. Only two players
11:00 AM BST The British and Irish Lions will tour South Africa in 2021 despite scheduling clashes with the Olympics, the Lions and South Africa Rugby confirmed on Wednesday. The postponed Olympics will begin on July 23 while the Lions tour will start on July 31 and continue until Aug. 7. 1 Related The Lions
9:16 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim Calvin Kattar can relate to where Dan Ige stands at this point in his career. He understands the big-picture mindset of his opponent in Wednesday’s UFC Fight Night main event in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Kattar has been there himself. “I think we’re similar in the fact that many
7:24 AM ET Manchester United are a year away from being a serious challengers for the Premier League title. That’s not an opinion based on the progress made by manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with his squad in recent months, but a reality borne out by the numbers that tell you when a team is ready
9:00 AM ET Craig Haubert Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst and analyst for ESPNU More than a decade of college and pro coaching experience. Graduated from Indiana and Nebraska-Omaha Tom Luginbill Close ESPN Analyst Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall Defensive
9:26 AM BST Stricter interpretations around the tackle in Super Rugby Aotearoa are allowing sides to ignore contesting the breakdown and fan out across the field making defences more like rugby league, Chiefs assistant coach Roger Randle has said. Referees in the New Zealand-only competition were told to police the tackle more strictly in an
7:00 AM ET NHL players are headed back to the Olympics! As part of the recently sealed collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and NHLPA, the league will be allowing players to participate in the 2022 and 2026 Olympic Games (the two events that are within the range of this CBA). The league must reach
6:10 AM ET When the NBA resumes on July 30, there will be millions of dollars on the line for the 2020 free agents taking the court. More than 150 players participating in the NBA restart are on track to hit free agency in October, and one misstep could prove costly for a player looking
7:23 AM ET This week’s Memorial Tournament marks the sixth week since the PGA Tour’s re-entry following the COVID-19 shutdown. Despite several positive tests and a few protocol modifications, the return of golf has been largely successful. Each tournament has been played as scheduled and both the at-home and on-site testing and screening measures have
Adam Yates will compete in this year’s Tour de France and his twin brother Simon will race in the Giro d’Italia, say their Mitchelton-Scott team. The Tour de France will take place from 29 August to 20 September having been pushed back because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Giro d’Italia, postponed from May, will take
9:52 PM ET ESPN News Services MOBILE, Ala. — Former college football coach Tommy Tuberville beat former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Tuesday’s Alabama Republican Senate runoff. Familiar to Alabamians from his decade as Auburn University’s head football coach, Tuberville, 65, is positioned for a strong challenge against Democratic U.S. Sen. Doug Jones. With
6:18 AM IST All seven of Adelaide Oval’s Big Bash League fixtures will play out in prime-time evening slots in one of the standout features of a fixture that has lengthened the 10th edition of the tournament to 65 days to appease broadcasters while also creating more room to move amid the Covid-19 pandemic. One
11:54 PM ET Associated Press Rick Dutrow, who trained Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown and is serving a 10-year suspension by New York racing authorities, withdrew his application for a license in Kentucky on Tuesday, his latest legal defeat in an attempt to restart his career. Dutrow and his attorney appeared on a
9:17 AM BST Kelleher, Randall and Lomu, has he done it? Larkham … Lomu has won the game surely for New Zealand! This has been a magnificent comeback from the All Blacks after all they’ve lost. And it’s that man Jonah Lomu, the human juggernaut. That was the match-deciding play in the 2000 Bledisloe Cup
5:55 PM ET Steve KimESPN Junior lightweight contender Mikaela Mayer easily outclassed Helen Joseph in a one-sided 10-round unanimous decision in the main event of a Top Rank boxing card on ESPN at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas on Tuesday. This was the first time a women’s fight has been the main