5:01 PM ET Free-agent center Joakim Noah has agreed to a deal with the LA Clippers, league sources tell ESPN. Noah, 35, will join the Clippers on a 10-day contract next week, but there’s optimism that he would finish the season with the team barring any setbacks, league sources said. Noah will fill the franchise’s
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5:37 PM ET ESPN 300 quarterback Drake Maye flipped his commitment from Alabama to North Carolina on Friday. Maye is the No. 45-ranked prospect overall in the 2021 class and the No. 4-ranked recruit in the state of North Carolina. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound quarterback committed to Alabama in July 2019, but announced his decision to
4:41 PM ET Lightweight contenders George Kambosos Jr. and Lee Selby will meet in a world title elimination fight on May 9 at Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced Friday. The winner of the fight, which will stream on DAZN in the United States and headline on Sky Sports in
4:47 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — To panic seems extreme, but that and any all emotions surrounding Tiger Woods‘ and his decision Friday to skip the Players Championship are certainly valid at this point. Pull your hair out. Fret and fuss. Spew doom and gloom. Go dark. It’s all fair when the subject is Tiger’s
4:40 PM ET Associated Press Tennis players at the BNP Paribas Open, which starts next week, will have to manage their own towels on court, and ball kids will wear gloves while working matches at the combined men’s and women’s tournament in the Southern California desert. The measures were announced Friday by tournament organizers, who
7:00 AM ET A team’s record in spring training doesn’t mean much, and that’s true for a player’s statistics as well. Factors such as small sample size, wildly varying talent levels of the opposition, and players working on specific aspects of their game muddy the picture in terms of spring stats. The same isn’t necessarily
Motorsport’s legislative body has backed Formula 1 officials’ handling of the Ferrari engine controversy. The FIA world council “expressed unanimous support” for the way FIA president Jean Todt and the technical department have managed the case. The FIA has been strongly criticised by seven of the 10 F1 teams for making a confidential settlement with
8:00 AM ET For Oklahoma, winning Big 12 college football titles is becoming as predictable as Sooners quarterbacks ending up in New York as Heisman Trophy finalists. Yes, Oklahoma needs to get better on defense after the Sooners were waxed 63-28 by LSU in a College Football Playoff semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl last
Motorsport’s governing body, the FIA, has set up a “crisis cell” to monitor the implications of the coronavirus. On Friday, a race of the all-electric Formula E championship scheduled for Rome on 4 April became the latest sporting casualty of the outbreak. Formula 1 has so far postponed only the Chinese Grand Prix from its
3:48 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Ryan Blaney knows all about NASCAR’s version of Silly Season, the time during the schedule when free-agent drivers are looking for a deal, rumors are flying and surprises abound. He is happy he won’t be part of that discussion this year. The future of NASCAR’s current points
2:18 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Ryan Newman was back at the track Friday, sipping on a Coke and casually strolling through the infield of Phoenix Raceway. It was hard to believe he was in a terrifying wreck at the Daytona 500 less than three weeks ago. “It’s great to be alive,” Newman
2:00 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Yoel Romero raised his right hand and slapped his chest repeatedly. “How many years?!” Romero screamed. “How many years?!” The UFC middleweight star made Friday morning weight at 185 pounds even for his UFC 248 title challenge against champion Israel Adesanya on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena. Romero, who
2:08 PM ET The Los Angeles Chargers and restricted free-agent running back Austin Ekeler have agreed to a four-year, $24.5 million deal that includes $15 million guaranteed, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday. The source said Ekeler, 24, could make up to $26 million over the course of the deal through incentives. Ekeler
2:31 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State reached an unspecified settlement with nearly half of the roughly 350 men alleging university officials ignored complaints and failed to stop a team doctor who they say sexually abused athletes and other students throughout his two decades there, the school revealed Friday. It is the
7:00 AM ET The ACC heads into spring practice facing the same question it has had the previous three seasons: Can anyone catch Clemson? Probably not. While the Tigers were humbled a bit by their 42-25 loss to LSU in the CFP National Championship Presented by AT&T, they’ll still probably be ranked No. 1 heading
7:45 AM ET College football’s spring practices are underway, and the 2020 season is just around the corner. While many of the top players in college football were ranked in the ESPN 300 and recruited by blue-blood programs, there are a small fraternity of players that didn’t receive high fanfare coming out of high school.
1:13 PM GMT Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has made three changes ahead of his side’s Six Nations clash against France at Murrayfield on Sunday. All three alterations came in the forward line with hooker Fraser Brown replacing Stuart McInally to make his 50th international cap, while Grant Gilchrist and Nick Haining have been selected
1:29 PM ET Top Rank has finalized the undercard for popular Irish featherweight Michael Conlan’s annual St. Patrick’s Day bout on March 17 at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. Before Conlan takes on Belmar Preciado and junior lightweight Mikaela Mayer fights Melissa Hernandez on the main card of the Top