1:17 PM IST Pakistan have roped in Younis Khan and Mushtaq Ahmed as the batting and spin-bowling coaches respectively for the upcoming tour of England. Khan and Ahmed will join head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis for the tour – scheduled for August-September – comprising three Tests and as many T20Is. This is
11:07 PM BST World Rugby has announced the qualification process for the 2023 World Cup in France aimed at promoting a “genuine opportunity” for all unions, the game’s global body said on Monday. Twelve teams — South Africa, England, New Zealand, Wales, Japan, France, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Argentina and Fiji — have already qualified
10:21 PM ET With UFC 250 in the books, the promotion is turning its attention to its next pay-per-view event. The UFC is targeting Alexander Volkanovski vs. Max Holloway 2 for the featherweight title on July 11, sources told ESPN. The fight, however, isn’t signed yet. Volkanovski defeated Holloway to win the title in December.
4:22 PM ET Associated Press GLENDALE, Ariz. — Alex Meruelo made history last year by becoming the first Latino controlling owner in the NHL when he purchased the Arizona Coyotes. He made another bit of history Monday, naming Xavier Gutierrez as the first Latino team president and CEO in NHL history. “I have known Xavier
10:46 PM ET Former Clemson players DeAndre Hopkins and Deshaun Watson are petitioning the university to remove the name of John C. Calhoun from the school’s honors college, with Hopkins noting that the slave owner’s influence is the reason he does not mention the university’s name when he’s introduced before NFL games. Calhoun, who served
6:07 PM ET With no spectators, golf promises to be quite different when the PGA Tour returns this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Long-time CBS lead announcer Jim Nantz, for example, will be alone in the 18th hole tower — with lead analyst Nick Faldo working from a studio in Orlando, Florida, and other
4:45 PM ET Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said he is questioning his own hiring practices in light of the social unrest following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. “I’ve hired a black scouting director, [a] farm director in the past, but the majority of people that I’ve hired,
7:50 PM ET The morning before he became the only baseball player to kneel for the national anthem, then-Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell called outfielder Delino DeShields, then a member of the Texas Rangers, to tell him about his plans. After President Donald Trump had called kneeling NFL players “sons of bitches” in 2017, Maxwell
7:30 PM ET Clemson coach Dabo Swinney on Monday defended his response to an assistant coach’s use of a racial slur during a practice three years ago. Nearly a week after assistant coach Danny Pearman apologized for using the slur, Swinney made his first public comments about what happened in a taped message posted to
8:26 PM ET In order to kick off the college football season on time, coaches throughout the country could begin working with their players again as soon as July 6, and required meetings and walk-throughs with a football could start in mid-July if a proposed six-week practice plan is approved by the NCAA later this