3:17 AM BST Injured rugby union player Michael Fatialofa will be discharged from a British hospital on Friday, his wife said, just five months after breaking his neck and fearing he would never walk again. “My delightful husband is coming home tomorrow night,” Fatialofa’s wife Tatiana said on her Twitter account on Thursday. “5 MONTHS
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10:45 PM ET Steve KimESPN The bout between WBC and IBF junior welterweight champion Jose Ramirez and mandatory challenger Viktor Postol, twice postponed in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is now expected to take place this summer, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said Thursday. Arum said he expected the fight to take place in
3:39 PM ET Boxing champion Kim Clavel, who left the ring to return to nursing during the coronavirus pandemic, will receive the Pat Tillman Award for Service at The ESPYS on June 21. “It is an honor to receive the Pat Tillman Award on behalf of all the health care workers battling COVID-19 on the
6:54 PM ET AS THE NBA’S plans to restart its season at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida, were coming into focus last week, Chris Paul and Bob Iger went for a walk. Paul, the president of the National Basketball Players Association, and Iger, the executive chairman of the Walt Disney
9:29 PM ET Texas players marched with coach Tom Herman and members of the Austin Police Department to the state capitol building Thursday afternoon, joining the national protests against racism after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Herman and his wife and other Longhorn coaches joined the players as they walked from the north
8:51 PM ET The National Hockey League is transitioning to Phase 2 of its return-to-play plan, as teams will be allowed to reopen their training facilities in their respective cities on Monday if local regulations allow it. On a “strictly voluntary basis,” players can participate in small-group team training, with a maximum of six players
12:03 PM ET Associated Press OPELIKA, Ala. — The family of Aniah Blanchard, stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris, was emotional as a police detective testified about how Blanchard was found dead last year. Auburn Police Detective Josh Mixon testified in a Lee County courtroom Wednesday that a witness said he was with Ibraheem Yazeed
6:25 PM ET Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity has been given a one-year contract extension. The announcement came in a rare online video spring meeting of the University of Georgia athletic association’s board of directors on Thursday. The 65-year-old McGarity was named Georgia’s AD in 2010. His extension came in
8:37 AM ET New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees issued an apology Thursday for his comments on “disrespecting the flag,” saying he “completely missed the mark” on current issues in the United States. During an interview with Yahoo Finance on Wednesday, Brees reiterated his stance that he will “never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag
4:22 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR is set to run its All-Star race on a Wednesday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway and added one more weeknight Cup Series race as part of its latest revised schedule through July. NASCAR has revamped its schedule in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and announced even more changes
2:58 PM ET The World Boxing Council has suspended super middleweight Alejandra Jimenez for a nine-month period and stripped her of her title, stemming from a positive doping result in January. Jimenez, of Mexico, defeated Franchon Crews-Dezurn by split decision on Jan. 11 in San Antonio to win the WBC and WBO belts. However, the
10:47 PM IST Rory Burns returned to the nets for the first time in six months on Monday, confident that the ankle that he injured during football practice in South Africa has fully recovered, but admitting that his time out of the Test team had come at a frustrating moment in his career. Burns, who
3:17 PM ET A Pittsburgh Penguins player has recovered after testing positive for COVID-19, the team announced Thursday. According to the Penguins, the player is “feeling well,” and those in close contact with him leading up to the diagnosis have been notified. “The player is not in Pittsburgh and has been in isolation at his
2:30 PM ET The NHL and NHL Players’ Association have agreed that the qualifying round of the 24-team tournament will be best-of-five series and all four playoff rounds will be best-of-seven series, the NHL announced Thursday. The sides also determined that the tournament will not be bracketed but will be reseeded after every round. These
1:58 PM ET The NBA’s board of governors has voted to approve the league’s 22-team format to restart the 2019-20 season in Orlando, Florida, a source told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Under the plan from commissioner Adam Silver and the league’s advisory/finance committee, 13 Western Conference teams and nine Eastern Conference teams would play eight regular-season
7:30 AM ET ESPN NFL Insiders For every big NFL offseason signing, savvy draft selection or forward-thinking trade, there is a curious failure by another team to address an area of need. We asked our panel of NFL experts for the biggest missed opportunity of the offseason. What trade, signing, draft pick, etc., should have
7:04 AM ET On June 10, the evening of the 56th MLB first-year player draft, some happy amateur baseball star — probably Arizona State first baseman Spencer Torkelson — will become the 55th player to be picked first overall. Yes, there have been more drafts than players picked first. We’ll get to that. Assuming he
12:45 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff The lawyer for Alex Hepburn, the former Worcestershire cricketer who was last year convicted of rape, has argued that WhatsApp messages boasting of a sexual conquest “game” should not have been submitted as evidence in his trial. Hepburn, 24, was jailed for five years in April 2019, after being found