1:45 PM ET With Saturday’s rivalry game against Michigan canceled, Ohio State coach Ryan Day on Tuesday said the Big Ten should revisit its rule requiring teams to play at least six games this season to be eligible for the conference championship game. Because No. 4 Ohio State (5-0) can’t play Michigan because of COVID-19
1:41 PM ET Philadelphia Eagles coach Doug Pederson is naming Jalen Hurts his new starting quarterback, and the rookie will start Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. Carson Wentz, the team’s franchise quarterback to this point, will back up Hurts. “We’re not where we want to be as an offense,” Pederson said, according to the
6:54 PM ET Claressa Shields has not wasted any time jumping into mixed martial arts training. ESPN’s top pound-for-pound women’s boxer signed with PFL to compete in MMA earlier this week. And on Friday, she arrived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to train at JacksonWink MMA with her friend Jon Jones, one of the best UFC
1:18 PM ET UFC 256 has lost two more fights because of coronavirus, but the event also has named a replacement fighter for a third bout that previously had been canceled because of COVID-19. Dwight Grant (10-3), who was to face middleweight Li Jingliang (17-6) in an early prelim on Saturday’s card in Las Vegas,
11:57 AM ET Sunday’s Sakhir Grand Prix wasn’t supposed to be a showdown between Valtteri Bottas and George Russell … at least that’s what Mercedes’ team principal Toto Wolff kept saying before the race. 2 Related But regardless of the intentions, a showdown quickly became the reality. After qualifying 0.026s off Bottas, Russell took the
1:37 PM ET The NFL experienced a significant drop in COVID-19 infections during its most recent testing period, likely the result of a mid-November decision to place all 32 teams under “intensive” protocols designed to minimize high-risk close contacts. A total of 45 NFL employees — 18 players and 27 staff members — returned positive
1:27 PM ET The annual rivalry game between Michigan and Ohio State has been canceled due to an increase in COVID-19 cases over the past week within the Wolverines’ program, the school announced. The decision was made after conversations with medical experts, health department officials and university administration. “The number of positive tests has continued
10:53 AM ET PITTSBURGH — For the second game in a row, a Pittsburgh Steelers player suffered a knee injury that will force him to miss time. Inside linebacker Robert Spillane suffered an apparent left knee injury in the third quarter of Monday’s loss to the Washington Football Team and is expected to miss time,
7:27 AM ET Jon Jones was in his Albuquerque, New Mexico, living room in front of a projection television on July 25. UFC Fight Night aired that evening, and Jones had a keen eye on the undercard as Alexander Gustafsson, one of Jones’ main light heavyweight rivals, was making his heavyweight debut against former champion
3:41 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Half a dozen Pakistan players who tested positive days after arrival in New Zealand “likely picked up the infection just prior to their leaving for New Zealand, or during their travels” to the country, New Zealand director of public health Dr Caroline McEnlay has told ESPNcricinfo. McEnlay did not rule