6:38 AM ET Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic has defended his Serbian compatriot Novak Djokovic for hosting the ill-fated Adria Tour where a number of players, including the world No. 1, tested positive for the coronavirus. Djokovic was criticised for hosting the tennis tournament amid a pandemic after his coach Goran Ivanisevic and players Grigor
9:00 AM ET Liverpool are now confirmed as Premier League champions, as Jurgen Klopp’s team sealed the title with seven games left to play, but the 2019-20 season is still on course for a dramatic race in pursuit of Champions League qualification. 2 Related Unless Manchester City are successful in their bid to overturn a
2:54 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Khalid Wazir, who played two Tests for Pakistan in 1954, died at age 84 in Chester on Saturday. He was ill for a long time. A right-hand batsman and medium-pace bowler, Wazir was the 16th Test cricketer for Pakistan and the second-youngest for his country at the time of his
4:14 AM ET The McLaren Group, which includes the Formula One team, has arranged a £150 million financing facility with the National Bank of Bahrain (NBB), the Gulf bank said on Monday. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the company hard, with sales of its supercars plunging during a factory shutdown. It announced 1,200 redundancies in
11:37 PM ET Ian Desmond will opt out of playing this season, the Colorado Rockies‘ outfielder announced Monday. “The COVID-19 pandemic has made this baseball season one that is a risk I am not comfortable taking,” he wrote at the end of a lengthy post on Instagram that touched on race and opportunities for youth
1:28 AM BST NSW Rugby chief executive Paul Doorn has played down reports of player strike action, saying the Waratahs, at least, are 100 percent committed to Super Rugby AU and helping the code survive in the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On a day when NSW Rugby announced an organizational restructure, which includes the
7:00 AM ET WEARING AN IMPECCABLY tailored cream jacket, a light-blue button-down shirt and a jet-black tie with a contrasting platinum clip, LeBron James walked through the players’ entrance at Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena for the first time. The day before, July 8, 2010, on The Decision broadcast, James told a national TV audience that he
10:16 PM ET Arizona paused its plan to bring athletes back to campus Monday, citing a surge in COVID-19 cases in Pima County and its impact on the local healthcare system. The school started bringing back athletes June 15 for voluntary workouts in groups of approximately 20, with new groups arriving each week. Arizona said
8:58 PM ET The Ivy League is considering two possibilities for an altered football season because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, including forgoing the entire fall in favor of a seven-game, conference-only, spring season that would begin in April and conclude in mid-May, according to a sourced report from TMG Sports. According to the report,
5:30 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has warned Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial they will have to continue improving to keep their places at Old Trafford. Rashford and Martial have both scored 19 times this season — the best individual tallies of their careers — but Solskjaer insists their form