3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka opted to bowl v New Zealand Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal won the toss and opted to bowl first under cloudy skies at Hagley Oval, on a surface with enough grass to excite the seam bowlers. Kane Williamson said he would have bowled first as well. Sri Lanka made two
8:31 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Philadelphia 76ers guard Markelle Fultz‘s agent, Raymond Brothers, told ESPN that his client is progressing well in rehabilitation on his right shoulder and that he expects Fultz to return to the team this season. “We want to make sure he’s 100 percent and healthy when he does come back,” Brothers
6:25 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — As Denver Broncos rookie running back Phillip Lindsay struggled, with a badly swollen right wrist, to finish off a suit-and-tie look for the chartered flight back to Denver after Monday night’s 27-14 loss to the Oakland Raiders, he joked he’d already been “Santa for everybody this year.” So a
5:51 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — It didn’t take long for safety D.J. Swearinger to find a new team. The Arizona Cardinals claimed the former Washington Redskins defensive back on Tuesday, a day after Washington released him. Swearinger broke the news first with an Instagram post. Swearinger played for the Cardinals in late 2015 and
4:22 PM ET Elias Ricks, the top-ranked cornerback prospect in the 2020 class, committed to LSU on Christmas Day. Ricks, a 6-foot-2 defensive back out of Santa Ana, California, chose the Tigers over offers from Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State, USC and a number of the other top programs in the country. He is the
12:49 PM ET Associated Press Don’t be surprised to hear these words at the Sony Open: “Now on the tee, from Slovakia, Rory Sabbatini.” The South African-born Sabbatini last week became an official citizen of Slovakia, according to Slovak newspapers SME and Novy Cas. Sabbatini’s wife, Martina Stofanikova, is from Slovakia. Rory Sabbatini might be
12:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Some players wore their NFC East champion T-shirts and hats. Others kept them in clear, plastic bags. In his postgame speech after the Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the division title with a Sunday’s home win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, coach Jason Garrett told his players to be proud
11:07 AM ET Josiah Viera, the subject of an E:60 feature, died Monday morning. He was 14 years old. Born May 25, 2004, Viera weighed 5.5 pounds at birth and gained just two more pounds over the next six months. On his first birthday, doctors diagnosed Viera with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria, a fatal genetic condition characterized
1:01 PM ET For all the things this away tour is for Pakistan, one thing it is not is timely. They take on, in South Africa, the opponents they have only beaten two times in 12 attempts on away soil, the side that, for the overwhelming part of the past dozen years or so, has
Craig Burley and Alejandro Moreno examine Chelsea’s dilemma: splashing for Gonzalo Higuain in January or pursuing a younger striker in the summer. The guys respond to your tweets about Craig Burley’s coal, Christmas ideas for Steve Nicol, Julien Laurens’ resemblance to Kevin Kratz and more. The transfer window opens on January 1 and offers football