7:11 PM IST Danyal Rasool The number of women with central contracts in Pakistan cricket dropped further to nine, with the PCB announcing salary increases across the board, as well as more lucrative financial incentives for domestic cricket. Bismah Maroof retains the captaincy, while Anam Amin and Umaima Sohail get full contracts. Maroof finds herself
Month: June 2020
7:00 AM ET MOMENTS AFTER THE fifth-round bell sounds in the women’s bantamweight title fight at UFC 245 in Las Vegas in late December, reigning champion Amanda Nunes wraps up challenger Germaine de Randamie and sends her to the ground. From this moment forward, nearly the entire five minutes is spent with Nunes on top
8:36 AM BST The Gallagher Premiership will aim to restart the season on Aug. 15, it announced on Friday. The league was originally scheduled to return on April 24 but has since been suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus crisis. Last week, the UK government gave permission for elite sport to return behind closed doors
7:01 AM ET German tennis great Boris Becker, who previously worked with reigning world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, has not ruled out a return to coaching, the six-times Grand Slam champion said. During his stint with Becker, Djokovic won six Grand Slam titles. After they parted ways, Becker was named by the German tennis federation
10:30 AM ET It has been nearly three months since the last NBA game was played. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and man, there’s a lot to love about every team that’s going to compete for the 2020 NBA championship in Orlando next month. Now that the league’s board of governors has
8:08 AM ET When Amanda Nunes steps into the Octagon on Saturday night for the main event of UFC 250 in Las Vegas, it will be the first time she will be defending the women’s featherweight championship she won in December 2018. Please excuse her inattention to the 145-pound division. Nunes (19-4, 12-1 in the
6:12 AM ET After Covid-19 lockdown and months of virtual racing, McLaren’s Lando Norris has got behind the wheel for real by taking a Formula Three car for a spin at Silverstone. 1 Related The 20-year-old Briton linked up with his old Carlin team this week as he prepared for the much-delayed season to start
Jun 4, 2020 Manchester City defender Aymeric Laporte and AC Milan’s goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma will be up against eight regular Formula One drivers in the sport’s penultimate virtual grand prix on Sunday. The ESPN F1 Podcast team looks back on one of Formula One’s most intense rivalry, with behind-the-scenes stories and analysis of the major
Jun 4, 2020 Motor racing’s all-female W Series canceled its 2020 season on Thursday due to the coronavirus pandemic but promised to return next year with at least two support races on the Formula One calendar. The series, which started last year, had been due to award points toward a Formula One superlicence for the
3:17 AM BST Injured rugby union player Michael Fatialofa will be discharged from a British hospital on Friday, his wife said, just five months after breaking his neck and fearing he would never walk again. “My delightful husband is coming home tomorrow night,” Fatialofa’s wife Tatiana said on her Twitter account on Thursday. “5 MONTHS