12:45 PM GMT Concussions accounted for 20% of injuries suffered by rugby players in the English Premiership’s 2018-19 season and were the most common injury in matches for an eighth straight season, a Rugby Football Union (RFU) study has said. While the 2002-03 season had 42 concussions recorded in total, that number has since gone
10:57 AM ET The UFC is officially headed back to Fight Island for its first slate of events in 2021, and it includes the return of former two-weight champion Conor McGregor. UFC president Dana White announced on Tuesday that McGregor’s nontitle lightweight fight against Dustin Poirier at UFC 257 on Jan. 23 will take place
News Neither player entered tour bubble ahead of Sri Lanka series after two Covid positives detected Beuran Hendricks and Keegan Petersen have been withdrawn from South Africa’s Test squad to play Sri Lanka. Neither player entered the tour bubble when the playing group convened on Saturday, after two positive Covid-19 results were detected last week.
6:00 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets have lost 100 games since their last playoff appearance in January 2011, more than every team except the Cleveland Browns and Jacksonville Jaguars. All they had to do was get to 103 to secure the No. 1 overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft,
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7:00 AM ET Normally by this time on the calendar, the MLB hot stove is already cooking with at least some major free-agent signings and offseason trades. But this year? Not so much. While we wait for the movement to pick up, we asked a panel of experts for their opinion on what’s to come.
8:00 AM ET Neatly sandwiched between all the festive games in England are the quarterfinals of the Carabao Cup. Four of the usual Big Six in the Premier League are in action, with Arsenal hosting Manchester City, while Carlo Ancelotti’s Everton will look to continue their gradual rise with a victory over resurgent Manchester United.
5:32 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona presidential hopeful Agusti Benedito says he will knock down Camp Nou and build a new stadium if he’s elected in January. Plans are already in place to renovate Camp Nou as part of the Espai Barca project, which will also see the regeneration of the area around
8:29 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Jesse Lingard is set to return to the Manchester United squad for their Carabao Cup quarterfinal against Everton (Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET, live on ESPN+) after being forced to isolate multiple times because of COVID-19 guidelines. Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said Lingard, who has made just two appearances this
6:20 AM ET Manchester United are confident of securing a work permit for Atalanta winger Amad Diallo in order to add the teenager to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s squad during the January transfer window. Sources told ESPN that United are now in the process of applying for his Governing Body Exemption with the English Football Association.