Month: January 2021

3:45 PM GMT France are to cut their Six Nations squad from 37 to 31 players as they set up a bubble to avoid COVID-19 contamination, the French league and federation said on Saturday. The initial agreement between the national league (LNR) and the federation (FFR) said that the France squad would feature 37 players
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News Allrounder to Asian community: ‘There’s a lot of conspiracy theories out there, but it’s just medicine evolving’ Moeen Ali has urged people to take the Covid-19 vaccine and ignore “consipracy theories” amid concerns over low vaccination rates among ethnic minority groups. Scientists are still trying to determine what level of immunity, if any, comes
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12:44 PM GMT England’s Billy Vunipola hopes a strong showing in the Six Nations can help him cement a spot in Warren Gatland’s British & Irish Lions squad for their tour of South Africa this year. Vunipola missed Lions’ 2017 visit to New Zealand due to injury but is confident he will be part of
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1:59 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — Even with the NBA’s second-leading scorer sitting out, the Brooklyn Nets matched a franchise record Friday for the most points in a regulation game, dropping 147 on the Oklahoma City Thunder in a 22-point win. “We’re getting there. … We’re slowly inching forward on both ends of the floor,”
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12:17 PM ET ESPN News Services New York Mets owner Steve Cohen is taking a “break” from Twitter after saying his family received personal threats this week amid an ongoing stock-trading standoff between day traders and hedge funds. “I’ve really enjoyed the back and forth with Mets fans on Twitter which was unfortunately overtaken this
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5:44 PM ET Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford considers the Los Angeles Rams a viable contender in his trade market, sources told ESPN on Friday. While it’s unclear what the Rams can do with quarterback Jared Goff‘s long-term deal on the books, they’ve inquired about Stafford’s services and explored what it would take to get
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9:05 AM ET England’s Paul Casey carded an eight-under-par 64 in the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic on Saturday and tied the lowest round of the week to go 15-under overall and take a one-shot lead heading into the final round. Casey recorded six birdies and capped off his day with an eagle
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9:52 AM ET The ACC plans to return to its normal eight-conference-game, divisional format — with Notre Dame as an independent — when the 2021 football season kicks off in September, the league announced Thursday. In its release, the league noted that a return to play and the schedule as released are contingent on COVID-19
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