11:57 AM BST Ireland and Leinster flanker Dan Leavy announced his retirement from rugby at the age of 27 on Tuesday because of a long-term knee injury. Leavy was a pivotal member of the Ireland side that claimed the 2018 Six Nations Grand Slam. He missed the following year’s tournament through injury before suffering knee
11:24 AM ET Tiger Woods is no longer a game-time decision for this week’s Masters, announcing Tuesday that he plans to play in the tournament that begins Thursday. “As of right now, I feel like I am going to play,” Woods said Tuesday. The five-time Masters champion has not played in more than a year
Apr 3, 2022 LOS ANGELES — After the Lakers continued their free fall from play-in tournament contention with a sixth straight loss on Sunday, Anthony Davis looked back at a season gone awry and reflected on what “could have been.” “I think the biggest thing that I think about personally is what we could have
6:48 PM ET Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. — Gold Glove-winning outfielder Harrison Bader and the St. Louis Cardinals agreed to a $10.4 million, two-year contract and avoided salary arbitration. Bader, 27, gets a $1 million signing bonus as part of the deal announced Sunday and salaries of $4.7 million in each of the next two
6:35 AM ET The 2022 NFL draft is less than a month away, and we just saw yet another massive trade involving first-round picks. So it seems like a pretty good time to take another run at predicting how the draft’s early picks might play out. But this time, I’m taking my mock draft two
Apr 4, 2022 NFL personnel departments spend the year putting together a draft board they’ll largely use for only three days in April. They take hundreds of names, thousands of hours of evaluation, more than a little hearty debate, piles of airplane tickets, interviews, miles traveled to practices and games, and it’s all tossed into
1:34 PM ET Barcelona have reopened talks with Ousmane Dembele over a contract extension, with sources confirming to ESPN that sporting director Mateu Alemany is meeting with the forward’s agent, Moussa Sissoko, in Morocco this week. Alemany arrived in Marrakech on Monday and will remain there until Tuesday to negotiate a potential new deal for
9:32 AM ET The PFL has announced its opening women’s lightweight and men’s welterweight matchups for the 2022 regular season, and the matchups include some of the company’s biggest names. Two-time women’s lightweight champion Kayla Harrison (12-0) will face Russia’s Marina Mokhnatkina (6-2) in the PFL 3 main event. In the co-main event, 2021 welterweight
Over time, Mumbai Indians have made it a habit. Of starting slowly, before revving up as mid-season approaches and pouncing on teams at the back end. They have poorly started this time as well, but the margin for errors could be smaller in a 10-team pool. Therefore, they need to quickly get up and running.
7:47 AM ET When Jennifer Han got the call in 2021, she knew this was not going to be easy. Not even close. The opponent — undisputed lightweight champion Katie Taylor — was very talented. There was also her own situation. Han had given birth to her second child, Nolan, months before. She said she