10:09 AM BST World Rugby chief Brett Gosper said there would be no change to the hard line on high tackles at the Rugby World Cup and that the number of red cards would decrease once players changed their behaviour. There were seven red cards shown in the pool phase of this year’s tournament compared
8:28 AM BST Tonga hooker Paula Ngauamo has been banned for seven weeks for kicking an opponent in the head during his team’s 31-19 win over the United States in their final Pool C match at the Rugby World Cup. Ngauamo, 29, admitted he had committed foul play to World Rugby’s independent Judicial Committee. The
12:25 PM ET Associated Press Jordan Spieth returns from his longest break during a calendar year hopeful that a fresh start will end his longest drought. Spieth hasn’t won since the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, a span of 54 tournaments worldwide. He last played in August at the BMW Championship, where he failed
11:22 AM ET ESPN staff The All India Tennis Association (AITA) has directed its players, officials and staff bound for the Davis Cup tie next month to apply for Pakistan visas following a meeting of the body in New Delhi on Tuesday. The AITA, however, is waiting for the ITF to revert with its final
11:03 AM ET Former featherweight world titleholders Oscar Valdez and Carl Frampton will make their ring returns on the same Nov. 30 card against separate opponents and in a new weight class, Top Rank announced Tuesday. Valdez, who gave up his featherweight belt earlier this year in order to move up in weight, will make
Oct 13, 2019 How would you rank all 14 teams in the SEC? Or all 10 in the Big 12? Here’s a full ranking of every team in every Power 5 conference. Jump to a conference:SEC | Big Ten | Big 12 | Pac-12 | ACC SEC Alabama and LSU both won, and the picture
10:48 AM ET Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he is writing his first-ever memoir, to be called “BACK,” which was described in a news release as the “first and only account directly from Woods, with the full cooperation of his friends, family and inner circle.” Woods, who at 43 won the Masters earlier this year
Oct 15, 2019 FRANCISCO RIVERA THINKS about it almost every day, the night in Las Vegas when his MMA career began a notable descent. Rivera was putting on a solid performance, landing his powerful right hand against Urijah Faber at UFC 181 on Dec. 6, 2014. In his most high-profile fight, Rivera was proving he
9:21 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Artur Beterbiev faces Oleksandr Gvozdyk on Friday night in a highly-anticipated WBC/IBF light heavyweight unification fight. Beterbiev (14-0, 14 KOs) has become a superstar on his own, but the guidance and friendship of MMA legend Georges St-Pierre has led him to greater heights. Mark Kriegel sat down with Beterbiev and
8:38 AM ET Mercedes secured a sixth consecutive sweep of the drivers’ and constructors’ championship at the Japanese Grand Prix. The Suzuka event saw a Tyhoon-enforced revamp to the weekend format and a race which brought stewarding decisions under the microscope again. Our F1 team, Laurence Edmondson, Nate Saunders, Maurice Hamilton and Kate Walker, discuss