2:22 PM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban believes college football is heading down the path of mega-conferences. During an appearance on the “Always College Football” podcast this week, Saban lamented the way realignment has stripped the tradition associated with playing in the same conference over a prolonged period of time. Last month, USC and UCLA,
4:05 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Jake Paul hopes his fight against Hasim Rahman Jr. on Aug. 6 in New York — his first against a boxer with professional experience — is the springboard to an eventual title reign for the social-media influencer. Paul, 25, told ESPN’s First Take on Tuesday that his “goal is to
8:35 AM ET The four days between the end of the draft and the start of free agency occur at a frenetic pace behind the scenes. It’s crunch time for teams to sign their pending unrestricted free agents before they lose their coveted trump card: an eighth year on a contract. Front offices toggle between
4:24 PM ET Associated Press LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech is planning a $200 million project consisting of a new four-story building in the south end zone that will include locker rooms, offices for coaches and a field-level club area that the Red Raiders will go through before games. That building will enclose the south
IndyCar driver Colton Herta says it remains his ambition to move to Formula 1 after completing a test for McLaren. The 22-year-old American drove the team’s 2021 car at Portimao in Portugal on Monday and Tuesday. Herta said: “It’s a goal of mine and has been for a while. There have been instances when I
2:14 PM ET ESPN News Services 23XI Racing got a jump on the 2024 Cup Series season with the surprising announcement Tuesday that it signed Tyler Reddick to join the NASCAR team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin. Reddick, a two-time Xfinity Series champion, is in his third full season driving for Richard Childress
Shikhar Dhawan (left) and Rohit Sharma stitched an unbeaten 114-run stand vs England on Tuesday.© AFP Indian opening duo of Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan on Tuesday completed 5,000 ODI runs as an opening pair. The duo achieved this landmark during the first ODI of the three-match series against England at the Kennington Oval on
4:43 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco will have surgery Tuesday on his right wrist. Franco has a hamate injury. He left Saturday’s 5-4 loss at Cincinnati after fouling off a 100.2 mph Hunter Greene pitch before striking out. Manager Kevin Cash said Monday that the 21-year-old
9:01 AM ET ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – Tiger Woods blasted LIV Golf during a news conference at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews on Tuesday, offering his sharpest criticism to date of PGA Tour players who were lured to the Saudi Arabian-financed circuit by lucrative signing bonuses. In some cases, high-profile players such as
Jun 28, 2022 What a treat we have in store for us this weekend. Every series is alive and headed to a decider after all four northern hemisphere nations bounced back last week, but who’ll come out on top? Can Ireland and Wales make history again to claim their series victory? Can the Wallabies overcome
8:30 AM ET NHL free agency officially begins on Wednesday at noon ET, but it’s already been an absolutely wild offseason in hockey. With the salary cap rising by only $1 million from last season, teams have been forced into difficult decisions, such as: Still, some potential free agents removed themselves from the market by
11:16 AM BST France displaced South Africa at the top of the world rankings on Monday, while New Zealand slumped to an all-time low of fourth after a stunning northern hemisphere sweep of the major July tests at the weekend. Fourteen months before they host the World Cup, France reached the pinnacle of the rankings
6:30 AM ET Liverpool are famed for embodying manager Jurgen Klopp’s philosophy of “heavy metal football,” but they will be bringing the spirit of house music to the Premier League with their new 2022-23 away kit. 2 Related The Reds have used their new alternate jersey to pay homage to the city’s famous music scene
Climate activists forced a 10-minute delay during the 10th stage of the Tour de France after trying to stop riders on the road. The race was paused 36km from the finish as the protestors sat on the road, with one of them wearing a t-shirt saying “We have 989 days left”. The activists were eventually
6:00 AM ET It’s one thing to knock Ohio State from its perch atop the conference. It’s another thing entirely to keep the Buckeyes pinned down. That’s become doubly true in the 2000s. They slipped at the end of the John Cooper era but went straight from 7-5 to 14-0 under Jim Tressel in 2002
7:42 PM ET Jamal CollierESPN CHICAGO — Although Zach LaVine said he went into NBA free agency this summer with an “open mind,” his decision to return to the Chicago Bulls turned out to be an easy one, especially once the team offered him a five-year max contract extension with a player option for the
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — The Open celebrates its 150th anniversary at the home of golf this week, and its homecoming at St. Andrews couldn’t have come at a better time for the game. With LIV Golf threatening to splinter the professional tours even more, the drama takes a back seat, at least for a week,
Jasprit Bumrah produced a devastating spell of fast bowling on way to career best six-wicket haul, helping India skittle out England for 110 in the first ODI on Tuesday. Considering the overcast conditions and grass on the pitch, India decided to put the opposition in and the pacers, especially Bumrah, exploited the conditions perfectly. Bumrah