9:48 AM ET The Open Championship’s rotation of 10 links courses has — for now — been shrunk to nine. The R&A announced Monday that Trump Turnberry, the most picturesque of the venues and where Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus staged their memorable “Duel in the Sun” in 1977, will not be granted an Open
Month: January 2021
10:09 AM ET Long-time Renault F1 team boss Cyril Abiteboul has left the company ahead of its first season competing under the Alpine name. Abiteboul had led the Renault brand in Formula One since its return to the sport in 2016, but parent company Groupe Renault confirmed he left his position on Monday and named
9:22 AM ET For the third time in the last year, MLS and the MLS Players Association (MLSPA) are back at the bargaining table negotiating a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, MLS is concerned that the difficult economic conditions it faced in 2020 will continue this year. The 2021 regular
6:32 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Middleweight contender Chris Eubank Jr. has signed with European promoter Team Sauerland as he targets a world title shot in 2021. Eubank Jr. (29-2,
9:00 AM ET NHL Insiders The 2021 NHL season is set to start on Wednesday, with the Tampa Bay Lightning beginning their Stanley Cup defense. Senior NHL writer Greg Wyshynski, NHL writer Emily Kaplan and ESPN’s Arda Ocal are here with their best futures bets before the pucks drop. Odds courtesy of Caesars Sportsbook by
8:49 AM ET Mikaela Mayer Amid the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, boxer Mikaela Mayer had a breakout 2020. Despite fight cancellations and postponements, including a false positive prefight test for the virus that led to her removal from Top Rank’s first card back from hiatus in June, Mayer captured the attention of the boxing
7:00 AM ET Yu Darvish is gone and many predict the next player the Chicago Cubs will trade is catcher Willson Contreras, even though president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer denied a report that the Cubs were extensively shopping Contreras, calling it “fiction.” “I think he’s one of the top handful of catchers in baseball,”
7:28 AM ET Former Alabama offensive coordinator Mike Locksley still remembers glancing over at Jeremy Pruitt one late-December night in 2017 at a Sugar Bowl function. Alabama was in New Orleans, preparing to face Clemson in the College Football Playoff semifinal, and Pruitt, then Alabama’s defensive coordinator, was doing his best to burn both ends
7:00 AM ET JUSTIN FIELDS STEPS into an injury tent like Clark Kent entering a phone booth. On the outside, he’s a mild-mannered quarterback, not much of a talker. At heart, he’s still that small-town kid from the Atlanta suburbs who desperately wanted to stay close to home and play for Georgia and who nearly
Welcome to our live report of the fifth day of the Australia-India Test from Sydney. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here *Most recent entry will appear at the top, please refresh your page for the latest updates. 5.35pm local time/12.05pm IST: Under 10 overs left in