11:15 AM BST Kathleen McNamee Wales coach Wayne Pivac has said the time is right for the northern and southern hemispheres to look at synching their rugby calendars and to create a “level playing field” for teams. The European calendar runs from September to June while teams in the southern hemisphere start their season in
12:45 AM ET Former major league pitcher Matt Keough, a special assistant with the Oakland Athletics, has died, the team announced on Saturday. He was 64. The A’s did not disclose details on the cause of death. Keough spent parts of seven seasons with Oakland as a player, ending in 1983, and was named an
9:12 PM ET Andy Dalton is returning home. Released by the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday, Dalton agreed to a one-year deal with the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The quarterback’s deal has a base value of $3 million and could be worth up to $7 million, the source said. Before
8:00 AM ET The finals in the MLB The Show Players League are set. After a scorching-hot, undefeated start to the season from Texas Rangers slugger Joey Gallo ended in a surprise first-round playoff defeat, Tampa Bay Rays left-hander Blake Snell and Chicago White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito will face off in the championship series.
7:21 PM ET Associated Press HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Charlatan romped in the first division of the Arkansas Derby, leading all the way to win a race pushed back three weeks to help fill a void when the Kentucky Derby was postponed until September. The 146th Derby usually would have dominated the first Saturday in
6:32 PM ET Associated Press Secretariat won a virtual Kentucky Derby against 12 fellow Triple Crown winners — 47 years after the chestnut colt won the real race at Churchill Downs. The 1 1/4-mile race featuring computer-generated imagery was held Saturday, the same day the 146th Derby had been scheduled until it was postponed by
6:19 PM ET Four days after detailing his diagnosis and treatments after having a cancerous tumor removed from his colon in March, Trey Mancini‘s Baltimore Orioles teammates joined him on a Zoom call on Saturday. Their message was simple for a player who wears No. 16 on the field: #F16HT The guys surprised Trey. #F16HT
5:59 PM ET CINCINNATI — The Bengals have informed wide receiver John Ross that they will not be picking up the fifth year of his rookie contract, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday. Ross, who was selected ninth overall in the 2017 draft, has struggled to stay on the field during his first
9:00 AM ET Under normal circumstances, every organization would have months of statistics and data through which to evaluate their prospects at summer’s end. Club officials would have a sense of how much the 19-year-old in Class A has refined a needed changeup, how the Double-A shortstop has cleaned up his erratic throwing and whether
3:37 PM ET The Detroit Lions are not picking up the fifth-year option on linebacker Jarrad Davis‘ contract, making the team captain a free agent after the 2020 season, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN. Davis, a first-round pick out of Florida in 2017, has started 41 games for Detroit, mostly at middle linebacker. He has