Month: June 2018

1:09 PM BST ESPN staff The Rugby Football Union is set to announce up to 100 redundancies in the next month. According to reports in the Telegraph, the RFU could cut jobs within the governing body from 570 to 500 by the end of July. England head coach Eddie Jones has confirmed he was involved
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2:28 PM ET The NASCAR Cup series race weekend at Michigan International Speedway was dominated by talk of whether the race would be better with restrictor plates, and then whether the race would be better without, well, weather. We got enough of two races in to call it a weekend as long as you didn’t
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2:00 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The Toronto Raptors are hiring assistant Nick Nurse to become the franchise’s new head coach, league sources told ESPN. Draft picks: NoneProjected Cap Space: $0DeMar DeRozan: Under team control through 2019-20 (player option for 2020-21)Kyle Lowry: Signed through 2019-20Serge Ibaka: Signed through 2019-20Jonas Valanciunas: Under team control through 2018-19 (player
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7:36 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 England’s Rocky Fielding will challenge Germany’s Tyron Zeuge for the WBA super-middleweight title on July 14. Fielding seems unperturbed that Zeuge (22-0-1, 12 KOs)
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12:00 AM ET Five men sit around a small table on a beach in Havana, Cuba, talking and playing dominoes. There is a relaxed seriousness to their conversation as they speak of their role in a sociopolitical experiment that has shaped their lives and the lives of their fellow Cubans. These men are not social
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6:12 AM ET Max Verstappen’s return to form at the Canadian Grand Prix came after the Dutchman and Red Bull agreed he would travel to the race without his father and management group. Verstappen’s erratic and incident-strewn start to the season had led to criticism, with repeated questions ahead of the Montreal race leading to
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