12:32 PM BST Wales have called up uncapped players Rhys Carre and Owen Lane to their 42-man training squad in preparation for this year’s World Cup. A total of 36 players from the Six Nations Grand Slam winning team have been named in the training squad. Back-row forwards Taulupe Faletau, Josh Navidi and Aaron Shingler
Month: April 2019
12:31 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Omaha Beach is the 4-1 early favorite for the Kentucky Derby after drawing the No. 12 post position. Bob Baffert-trained Game Winner is the 5-1 second choice from the No. 16 post in the 20-horse field that was drawn Tuesday for Saturday’s first leg of the Triple
12:43 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Harold Varner III was rooting as hard as anyone for Tiger Woods to close out his recent Masters victory, knowing how much it would mean to Woods but also to a close friend who is battling colon cancer. Varner revealed Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Championship that he had
10:39 AM ET ESPN staff Valtteri Bottas reclaimed the lead of the championship in Azerbaijan as his Mercedes team defied the odds — and broke a record — by extending its run of one-two victories at the start of the 2019 season to four. 1 Related Does this mean we have a intra-team battle on
10:02 AM ET Scott Foster, the referee most reviled by the Houston Rockets, has been assigned to call Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Golden State Warriors Tuesday. Foster, a 25-year NBA veteran, has not worked a Rockets game since James Harden publicly criticized him after the superstar fouled out of Houston’s
1:00 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Steve Tisch sat stoically last month as fellow co-owner John Mara unloaded about the perception that the New York Giants didn’t have a plan earlier this offseason. They were hearing a lot of “What is the plan?” at the time given that they had just traded star wide
9:55 AM ET Wimbledon prize money will see an increase of 11.8 percent and total £38 million ($49 million) for this year’s championships, the All England Club announced on Tuesday. The men’s and women’s singles champions will receive £2.35 million ($3.06 million) each — £100,000 more than in the previous year. Continuing a theme of
shares Dale Steyn and Lungi Ngidi share a fist bump © Getty Images South Africa’s anxious wait for an update on Dale Steyn‘s injured right shoulder continues, but the fast bowler has seen a specialist in Cape Town since his early return from the IPL. In two weeks, the Proteas will meet for a
8:20 AM ET ESPN staff The Automobile Club d’Italia claims to have reached a commercial agreement with Formula One to keep the Italian Grand Prix at Monza until 2024. Monza’s current contract due to expire after this year’s running of the Italian Grand Prix, making the circuit one of five races up for renewal at
ESPN FC’s Craig Burley highlights Roberto Firmino’s defending from the front as pivotal to Liverpool getting a result against Barcelona. Jurgen Klopp has admitted that Liverpool must “suffer” at the hands of Barcelona if they are to stop Lionel Messi from carrying out his “threat” to bring the Champions League trophy back to the Camp