3:46 PM ET Associated Press Maybe some of the new rules in the XFL will catch on elsewhere. The Citadel will include a few of them in its spring game March 7 in Charleston, South Carolina. Among the different rules scheduled for use: • The XFL kickoff rule in which the kick is from the
5:11 PM GMT Lahore Qalandars have won the toss and as expected chose to field first in a rain-shortened affair to 12 overs, with further disruptions possible. The toss was delayed more than two hours due to poor weather in Rawalpindi before skies cleared to allow for a contest reduced by eight overs. The pitch
2:30 PM ET For the second straight year, Tiger Woods is skipping the Arnold Palmer Invitational, a tournament he has won eight times. “He is not going to play,” Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, said in a text to ESPN. “Back still stiff and just not quite ready.” Woods opted to skip the WGC-Mexico Championship last
2:30 PM ET Leaping off this week’s Waiver Watch, here’s a roundup of several other late-season fantasy performers, now that the trade deadline dust is starting to settle. Some of whom are connected to deals made before 3pm ET Monday, others not at all. All largely available, as per usual. Dylan Strome, C, Chicago Blackhawks
1:55 PM ET World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty has been knocked out of the Qatar Total Open on Friday after she suffered a narrow 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 defeat to Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova in the semifinals in Doha. Kvitova, 29, will face Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka in the final on Saturday after she defeated Russia’s Svetlana
1:44 PM ET A political misunderstanding over Garth Brooks wearing a Barry Sanders No. 20 jersey in Detroit drew a strong reaction on social media, including one from the Hall of Fame running back. Last weekend, Brooks posted a photo on Instagram of the Sanders jersey prior to his concert in Detroit. The confusion began
9:00 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — A couple days into training camp, Chris Paul needed to set the record straight. Again. He had already cleared things up on Twitter, but as he stood in the corner of the Oklahoma City Thunder practice facility and peered across the floor with an eye toward Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Paul
2:30 AM ET The NFL’s 2020 franchise-tag window opens Thursday … with a twist. While the NFL Players Association mulls approval of a new collective bargaining agreement, a series of unique rules in the existing CBA will govern at least the start of the tag process. Let’s get into the details. First, remind me: How
1:15 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Finalizing a deal for the fight between unified heavyweight world titlist Anthony Joshua and mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev to meet this summer is down to the sides agreeing on “silly things,” Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn told ESPN. Hearn, Joshua’s promoter, and Pulev co-promoters Top Rank and Epic Sports
12:22 PM ET BARCELONA, Spain – Mercedes recovered from its difficult Thursday to go quickest on the final day of preseason, but a late Max Verstappen lap meant Red Bull finished just 0.073s behind the world champions. Mercedes suffered its worst session of testing on the penultimate day, with an engine issue forcing its car