5:27 PM GMT Will Rohit Sharma travel to Australia for the upcoming four-match Test series? The answer is expected on Friday when the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru, where Sharma is undergoing rehabilitation, will submit its final assessment to the BCCI on his fitness. If the NCA gives a positive feedback then the BCCI
11:35 AM ET Moises Llorens Sam Marsden Barcelona presidential candidate Victor Font said he can persuade Lionel Messi to stay at Barcelona if he’s elected and says Xavi Hernandez will play a key role in getting him to sign a new deal. Messi, 33, is out of contract with Barca in June and is free
9:02 AM ET Christian Pulisic‘s attempts to put his fitness issues behind him remain a “work in progress” according to Chelsea head coach Frank Lampard. The USMNT international scored his first Premier League goal of the season in last Saturday’s 3-1 win over Leeds, coming off the bench to make only his fifth appearance in
5:56 AM ET The fourth official whose comment was at the centre of the suspension of the Champions League clash between Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir on Tuesday has said he is not racist. Sebastian Coltescu, from Romania, was accused by Basaksehir players and staff to have used a racial slur against the club’s assistant
12:21 PM ET Robinho was at AC Milan from 2010 to 2014. Marco Luzzani/Getty Images Robinho‘s nine-year prison sentence for sexual assault has been upheld in the Milan courts following an appeal. The verdict relates back to an incident which took place on Jan. 22, 2013 involving a 22-year-old Albanian woman. – Stream LIVE games and
6:58 AM ET December is traditionally awards season in soccer, with the Best FIFA Football Awards handed out for excellence in the sport along with the longest-running honor for men’s and women’s players, the fabled Ballon d’Or. The prize, first awarded by a French soccer magazine in 1956, is considered the most prestigious trophy in
11:38 AM ET NBA commissioner Adam Silver and his staff have conducted expanded talks with teams, players and agents about crafting a policy to manage widespread usage of COVID-19 vaccines around the league, sources told ESPN. Multiple COVID-19 vaccines are in final stages of approval, and the NBA could find itself as the first major
9:00 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN A day after Dustin Johnson slipped on the green jacket at Augusta National to commemorate his November win at the Masters, the U.S. Women’s Open Twitter handle posted a reminder: There’s more major golf to be played in this strange 2020 season. Accompanied by a video featuring Lexi Thompson, Annika
11:08 AM GMT Scotland coach Gregor Townsend has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him in charge until the 2023 World Cup, Scottish Rugby announced on Thursday, making him Scotland’s longest-serving coach in the professional era. Townsend, who won 82 caps for Scotland, took over as coach in June 2017 and has been
9:33 AM ET France’s Victor Perez carded a five-under-par 67 to take a one-shot lead in the first round of the DP World Tour Championship, the European Tour’s season finale, in Dubai on Thursday. Perez, 28, sank six birdies, offset by a bogey on the par-three fourth at the Jumeirah Golf estates’ Earth Course, to