10:46 AM BST Premiership club Saracens have asked their highest-earning players to defer part of their salaries until the start of the 2020-21 season and placed staff on the British government’s furloughing scheme. Players earning more than £75,000 per year will be asked to defer anything above that amount, the club said in a statement
Month: April 2020
9:13 AM ET The coronavirus pandemic that shut down sports across the world has required all leagues to rethink their schedules. On Thursday, the PGA Tour announced its plans to return to action in mid-June. Earlier this month, three of the men’s major championships — the Masters, PGA Championship and U.S. Open — all outlined
9:21 AM BST Argentina will abandon plans to bid to host the 2027 Rugby World Cup to give Australia a free run as the southern hemisphere candidate, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday. The Argentine government announced in 2016 that the country would bid to bring the tournament to South America for the first time
2:53 PM GMT IPL 2020 has been suspended but already offers have started to come in for hosting it outside India. Simon Katich, the head coach of Royal Challengers Bangalore, isn’t averse to the possibility of it being held in Australia or South Africa, and Sri Lanka have also reached out to the BCCI with
8:01 AM ET Joe Klingele Action was fast and furious over the NFL offseason. New England has uncertainty at quarterback for the first time in two decades after Tom Brady opted to leave via free agency and join the Buccaneers, and the Patriots are no longer favorites to win the AFC East at Caesars Sportsbook.
7:35 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1929, the numbers game began. The Yankees were the first team to put numbers on the back of
1:07 PM GMT For our latest #RetroLive match, we rewind to March 1996, and a classic World Cup semi-final between Australia and West Indies in Mohali. The sides had had contrasting fortunes in the opening rounds of the tournament, but their recent history pointed towards another thriller. Big Picture It would have been hard to
8:33 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN The world will get to see “The Last Dance,” starting this weekend. But Michael Jordan and the rest of the Chicago Bulls knew 1997-98 would be their last dance together from the very beginning of that championship season. Speaking to “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts on Thursday, Jordan said
The first new medical ventilator to treat people with severe symptoms of Covid-19 has been approved in the UK. Hundreds of the Penlon Prima ESO2, which is an updated version of an existing model, are expected to be built for hospitals over the next week. But the consortium of major firms that helped to develop
9:17 AM ET P.K. Subban has been a Norris Trophy-winning defenseman, a philanthropist, the subject of a reality show and part of a celebrity power couple with his fiancée, Olympic gold-medal-winning ski racer Lindsey Vonn. Now, we can add game show host to his list of many roles. The New Jersey Devils defenseman is the
8:00 AM ET Every quarterback, as he begins his NFL career, carries a unique set of burdens. Maybe he represents the hopes and dreams of his small town, which has never had a star to call its own. Maybe his college churns out a handful of first-round draft picks every year and he’s under pressure
6:25 AM ET Twenty years ago, the New England Patriots took Michigan quarterback Tom Brady with the 199th pick in the 2000 NFL draft. I was there — and I liked the pick. But I never could have imagined how his career has gone since. (No one could, right?) Three MVP awards, 219 regular-season wins,
11:42 AM GMT Lungi Ngidi, South Africa’s highest white-ball wicket-taker in 2020 so far, has given himself a six out of 10 for his performances over the past summer and believes there is room for improvement. Ngidi did not play any of South Africa’s four home Tests after injuring a hamstring in the Mzansi Super
3:15 AM BST ESPN staff New Zealand Rugby [NZR] has frozen 50 percent of player payments for the remainder of the year as the governing body gets to grips with the financial impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. NZR and the New Zealand Rugby Players Association [NZRPA] on Thursday revealed that they had agreed to a
2:40 AM ET American teenager Coco Gauff said she struggled to deal with the hype and mental pressure brought on by her rapid rise in tennis, and she had to rediscover her love for the game after becoming depressed. The Florida-based 16-year-old has enjoyed a sensational run on the professional circuit since July 2019, when
11:21 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball Los Angeles Rams center Brian Allen has tested positive for COVID-19, he told Fox Sports. A Rams spokesperson confirmed the diagnosis Wednesday, adding that Allen felt slight
8:30 AM ET This is what a pending unrestricted free agent in the NHL is thinking right now: He doesn’t know when the offseason begins or when it ends or how long it lasts. He doesn’t know how the coronavirus shutdown will affect the financial ability of NHL teams to offer him a contract, nor
8:09 AM ET The UFC’s card scheduled for May 9 is staggering in terms of name value, expectations and impact. One thing it seems to lack at the moment is an official name. Is it UFC 249 or 250? With three title fights and a number of other bouts with considerable title implications, it’s safe
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