3:25 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — The NFL is teaming up with the NCAA to make football safer. Two of the league’s top medical experts, Jeff Miller and Dr. Allen Sills, spent Monday and Tuesday in Indianapolis meeting with NCAA officials, college team doctors and trainers. Both told The Associated Press they hope it’s
3:35 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff June 18 Hashmatullah Shahidi will never forget Old Trafford and Old Trafford can never forget Hashmatullah. Hit flush on the side of his helmet by a Mark Wood short ball when on 24, Afghanistan’s top-scorer ignored his broken helmet and the doctor’s advice to walk off the field. He stood
2:41 PM ET Three of England’s best known boxers, former world titleholders Terry Flanagan and Rocky Fielding and longtime contender Martin Murray, will appear on the same card on July 12, MTK Global has announced. The card, which will take place at the Eventim Olympia in Fielding’s hometown of Liverpool, England, will stream live in
7:09 PM ET Former Philadelphia Eagles and Carolina Panthers running back Rod Smart has been found safe, the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday, after he was reported missing in South Carolina. Police had put out a missing person advisory for Smart, who had last been seen almost a week ago in Indian Land, South
1:47 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Flyers continued to shore up their defense by acquiring veteran Justin Braun from the San Jose Sharks for two draft picks. Philadelphia on Tuesday sent a 2019 second-round pick and 2019 third-round pick to San Jose for Braun. The Sharks were looking to clear salary-cap space
11:51 AM BST Mathieu Bastareaud will not be part of this year’s Rugby World Cup after the Toulon centre was left out of France’s 37-man squad on Tuesday. Bastareaud, who was vice-captain for Les Bleus during a disappointing Six Nations campaign, did not feature in the squad list of 31 or among the six standby
10:38 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Boston Celtics All-Star center Al Horford will decline to exercise his $30.1 million option for the 2019-20 season and will become an unrestricted free agent, league sources tell ESPN. While Horford, a five-time All-Star, will move into the free agent marketplace on June 30, there’s motivation with both Horford and
10:05 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN Alton Meeks was two days away from basic training and set on spending time with family before heading off to join the military. The former high school wrestler and Division I football player at Iowa and Northern Illinois was going to join the U.S. Army wrestling team and had designs
3:00 AM ET Big Picture South Africa entered this World Cup ‘under the radar’, but that’s essentially where their campaign has stayed. Still, after three defeats, a washout and a solitary win so far, they are definitely a threat even as the scrap for positions in the top four heats up. New Zealand, meanwhile, invented
9:12 AM ET The French Open is barely in our rearview mirror when Wimbledon pops up, towering on the horizon. There’s precious little time for the players to transition from clay to grass, and they’re at the opposite ends of the surface spectrum when it comes to playing properties. That helps explain why the grass