News GCA says decision taken “due to increasing number of” Covid cases The remaining three T20Is between India and England in Ahmedabad will be played behind closed doors “due to increasing number of Corona cases”. The Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) will refund the spectators who had purchased tickets for the games. “Due to rise in
9:45 AM ET The ACC eliminated its intraconference transfer rule on Monday in a unanimous decision by its Board of Directors. The intraconference transfer rule, created in 1996, required student-athletes without a degree to sit out one year if they were transferring from one ACC school to another. The move does not come as a
1:43 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Canadiens defenseman Ben Chiarot could miss the rest of the regular season after undergoing surgery Monday for a fractured hand. The operation was at Montreal General Hospital and he is expected to miss six to eight weeks, the team said before Monday’s game in Winnipeg. Chiarot was hurt
1:09 PM ET Washington Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg threw 245 1/3 innings in 2019 over the course of the regular season to winning World Series MVP honors, so we can probably dispense with the durability narrative in the fantasy baseball world. He proved himself. Then again, Strasburg threw all of five innings during the 2020
12:32 PM ET Former champion Andy Murray has been granted a wild card for this month’s Miami Open, tournament organisers said on Monday. The British ex-world No. 1, who has fallen to 116 in the rankings after long injury lay-offs because of hip surgeries, is a two-time Miami Open champion having won the title in
10:36 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN After months of arduous negotiations between competing promoters and rival champions, the contract for a two-fight deal between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua to unify the heavyweight titles has been finally signed. “We’d like to get a site deal confirmed in the next month,” said Eddie Hearn, managing director of
11:05 AM ET The long-rumored, long-discussed clash of British heavyweights is finally signed, with Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua set to clash for all four world titles and the crown of undisputed champion. It has never happened in the four-belt era, and the last person to be called the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world
11:42 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Daniil Medvedev rose to a career-best No. 2 in the ATP rankings on Monday, making him the first man other than Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer or Andy Murray to hold either of the top two spots in 15½ years. Lleyton Hewitt was the last man outside
7:00 AM ET Death, taxes, and discounting the New York Islanders until they go on a run that forces you to pay attention. It’s been a yearly tradition for the Isles in the Lou Lamoriello and Barry Trotz era. But as a rival player told me recently: “The Islanders have the strongest team identity in
10:00 AM ET Valencia midfielder Yunus Musah will represent the United States at international level. Musah, 18, made the announcement in conjunction with the U.S. Soccer Federation, and it amounts to the latest successful recruiting of a player eligible to represent multiple countries, following Barcelona defender Sergino Dest‘s choosing of the USMNT over Netherlands in