2:09 PM ET FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Boston Red Sox named Ron Roenicke interim manager Tuesday — a day before the team’s first scheduled workout for pitchers and catchers. Boston entered spring training without a skipper. Alex Cora departed in January after MLB’s investigation into sign stealing by the Houston Astros — Cora’s previous
2:54 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — NCAA president Mark Emmert urged Congress to step in and put restrictions on college athletes’ ability to earn money from endorsements, telling a Senate committee Tuesday that federal action was needed to “maintain uniform standards in college sports” amid player-friendly laws approved in California and under consideration in
2:36 PM GMT South Africa’s 2019 Rugby World Cup-winning coach Rassie Erasmus has revealed what he told his side before the final in Japan in November. The Springboks won the Rugby World Cup for the third time when Erasmus’s side defeated England 32-12 in the final in Yokohama. 2 Related “You don’t have the right
6:54 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Tom Abell, Brydon Carse and Tom Kohler-Cadmore will remain with the England Lions in Australia for their upcoming red-ball matches to cover for players departing for, or already on, England duty. None of the three were in the Lions’ original red-ball squad named to tour Australia but all were
1:01 PM ET Houston linebacker Eyabi Anoma has been dismissed from the program for an unspecified violation of team rules, the school announced on Tuesday. Anoma, who was once one of the top recruits in the country in 2018, spent a year at Alabama before transferring to Houston before the 2019 season. He did not
1:07 PM ET LSU and Florida State announced a marquee nonconference matchup to kick off the 2022 and 2023 seasons on Labor Day weekend. The two teams, who will be meeting for the first time since 1991, will play on Sept. 4, 2022 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans and on Sept. 3, 2023
12:24 PM ET Second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas clawed his way back from a set and a break down to beat Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 6-7(2) 6-3 6-1 and reach the last-16 of the Rotterdam Open on Tuesday. Tsitsipas reacted well to going 2-0 down in the second set, fighting back strongly to beat Hurkacz, who was
12:24 PM ET Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid will miss two to three weeks with a left quadriceps injury, according to general manager Ken Holland. McDavid, 23, was injured in Saturday’s 3-2 win over the Nashville Predators. He practiced Monday, but his status for Tuesday’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks had been up in the
12:16 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A judge Tuesday set an October trial date for a man charged with conspiring with the ex-wife of Lorenzen Wright to kill the former NBA player more than nine years ago in Memphis. Shelby County Judge Lee Coffee told Billy Ray Turner during a court hearing that
12:24 PM ET Canadian teenager Felix Auger-Aliassime outlasted Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff to win 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 and advance to the last-16 of the Rotterdam Open on Tuesday. The 19-year-old Auger-Aliassime, who had his breakthrough season last year when he climbed up to world No. 17, nearly threw it away in the second set when he