11:16 PM IST Jack Leach, the left-arm spinner, is a doubt for England’s international fixtures this summer due to health concerns. Leach takes immunosuppressant medication, which places him on the list of people considered ‘vulnerable’ to Covid-19. He has suffered from Crohn’s, the inflammatory bowel disease, since he was 14, and the medication he takes
3:21 AM BST ESPN staff England coach Eddie Jones has dived into Rugby Australia’s [RA] current state of issues on Australian podcast The Rugby Ruckus, suggesting RA focus on reviving club rugby to its former glory and avoid imitating other nation’s structures. Currently based in Japan, Jones has been keeping a close eye on the
2:12 AM ET The main event of Wednesday’s UFC Fight Night card in Jacksonville, Florida, elicited strong reactions for two drastically different reasons. On the one hand, 40-year-old Glover Teixeira was praised for his fourth straight win, this one coming over Anthony Smith, who just over a year ago was facing Jon Jones for the
8:17 PM ET UFC president Dana White promised he was bringing back sports for good — and it certainly felt that way as the UFC prepared to host its second event in five days. After postponing all events from March 14 to May 9 because of the coronavirus pandemic, the UFC is looking to make
11:52 AM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — John McCarthy, who won an NBA title with the 1964 Boston Celtics and helped Canisius to a pair of NCAA tournament appearances in the 1950s, has died. He was 86. Canisius announced that McCarthy died Saturday of natural causes in the Buffalo suburbs, where he grew up
8:12 PM ET LOS ANGELES — While the NBA is still holding out hope it can salvage some semblance of a conclusion to the 2019-20 campaign, a longstanding pro-am basketball league in L.A. was left with no choice but to cancel its season. The Drew League, whose legendary summer runs have hosted the likes of
10:05 PM ET Former LSU wide receiver Dee Anderson officially transferred to Oklahoma State, the school confirmed on Wednesday. As a graduate transfer, the 6-foot-6, 229-pound Anderson will be eligible for the Cowboys this season. Suspended last fall for what LSU coach Ed Orgeron deemed a “conditioning issue,” Anderson redshirted as the Tigers won the
7:00 AM ET Dan Kurtz woke up last Tuesday morning to a message he never dreamed of getting. Your site crashed. He opened Twitter on his smartphone and saw that nearly a dozen other people had reported the same issue. While Kurtz slept in Washington state, the Korea Baseball Organization began its season, regaling an
7:12 AM IST Shane Watson has criticised the expansion of the Big Bash season from 32 group games to 56, describing the tournament as “just too long” and suggesting that “the quality of the cricket has been put on the back burner”. Watson, an influential figure in the as the president of the Australian Cricketers’
8:30 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Santa Anita will resume live racing Friday after receiving approval from Los Angeles County health officials. The Arcadia track stopped live racing on March 27 by order of the county health department because of concern over the spread of the coronavirus. From March 12-27, the track raced