10:54 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is creating a minor league for top eligible prospects leading to the summer draft. The wood-bat MLB Draft League is launching with five teams and could add a sixth, MLB said Monday. Teams will play a 68-game regular season that includes an All-Star break
5:38 PM ET CLEVELAND — The Indians sold side-arm reliever Adam Cimber to the Marlins on Monday for $100,000, and Miami designated right-hander José Ureña for assignment. Ureña, the Marlins’ Opening Day starter in 2018 and 2019, spent six seasons with the Marlins and had been with them longer than any other active player. He
9:41 PM GMT It seems there’s little room for brotherly love in the cut and thrust world of competitive cricket. Certainly it seemed that way in Barbados on Monday when Dwayne and Kemar Smith found themselves on opposite sides in a club game at Eden Lodge on the outskirts of Bridgetown. Dwayne, the former West
2:20 PM ET As the hours and then the minutes ticked down to the unlikeliest of Iron Bowls for Nick Saban, he couldn’t help but think about his late father, Nick Sr. — “Big Nick,” as he was called back in their Monongah, West Virginia, community. Saban, forced to watch Alabama’s 42-13 dismantling of Auburn
12:57 PM GMT The number of teams participating in the women’s Rugby World Cup will be increased from 12 to 16 from the 2025 edition, the sport’s governing body announced on Monday. The decision was taken by the Rugby World Cup Board earlier this year and World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont said it was a
11:49 AM GMT France will be without a number of their top players for the Autumn Nations Cup final against England after coach Fabien Galthie confirmed he would not be seeking to change a rule that restricts players from competing in more than three international games. The agreement with the Top 14 means that Galthie
11:23 AM ET Manchester United fought back for a big win, Chelsea and Tottenham played it safe in the Premier League’s game of the weekend and Napoli showed their Serie A title credentials, while Real Madrid, Arsenal, PSG, Juventus and Bayern all failed to impress. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)– Predict
1:27 PM GMT Gazi Group Chattogram continued their early dominance of the Bangabandhu T20 Cup, clinching their third consecutive win. This time they beat Fortune Barishal by 10 runs, a slightly tighter contest than their two big wins previously over Beximco Dhaka and Gemcon Khulna. Chattogram’s left-arm duo of Mustafizur Rahman and Shoriful Islam strangled
9:41 AM ET The fact Romain Grosjean survived Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix was remarkable. The forces, flames and destruction involved in his accident on the opening lap of the race could easily have resulted in a much worse outcome, but somehow he was able to walk away from the incident with relatively minor burns to
5:32 AM ET Pietro Fittipaldi, grandson of two-time F1 champion and Indy 500 winner Emerson, will drive for Haas in place of the injured Romain Grosjean at this weekend’s Sakhir Grand Prix. Grosjean is still in hospital after sustaining burns on both hands in a scary crash at the Bahrain Grand Prix. The French driver