8:45 AM ET Simon Cambers PARIS — It is just a short walk, or an even shorter drive if you are a top player, to get from Roland Garros to the French Tennis Federation’s National Training Centre, a state-of-the-art facility which is available to French players throughout the year, free of charge. With six indoor
1:18 PM ET Maryland is adding linebacker Shaq Smith, a graduate transfer from Clemson who appeared in every game last season for the national champions. Smith, a Baltimore native, is eligible to play immediately for Maryland. It’s not immediately clear whether he will have one or two years of eligibility with the Terrapins. He recorded
12:34 PM ET Former Auburn and Akron coach Terry Bowden will assist Clemson’s football staff as an unpaid intern while he pursues a graduate degree at the school. Bowden, 63, is enrolled in a graduate program for athletic leadership at Clemson, a spokesman told ESPN. Bowden spent the past seven seasons coaching Akron, where he
11:46 AM BST South Africa’s national rugby union has announced a new contracting model as it attempts to develop “greater national and provincial alignment” and “improved succession planning” at Springboks level. SA Rugby will no longer contract Springboks Test players centrally, as it has done since rugby union turned professional in 1996, while the provincial
7:30 AM ET In hockey, it is increasingly important for players to be very good at a lot of things. But an elite skill among peers can be a game-changer for a player’s draft stock. There is a large segment of skills I’m looking for in a player, with hockey sense and skating among the
10:08 AM ET Former world champion Nico Rosberg thinks the controversial penalty which cost Sebastian Vettel victory at the Canadian Grand Prix was entirely justified. 1 Related Vettel was hit with a five-second time penalty in the closing stages of the race for an incident with Lewis Hamilton on lap 48. Vettel had run wide
1:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — The seconds tick off the clock in a two-minute drill at the end of the fifth organized team activity of the Dallas Cowboys‘ offseason. Music plays over the loud speakers inside the Ford Center as quarterback Dak Prescott looks about 15 yards to his left at Cowboys offensive coordinator
1:55 AM ET ESPN News Services Former Boston Red Sox slugger and Dominican star David Ortiz is out of surgery and doing “fine,” according to his family, after he was shot at a club in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The bullet did not hit any major organ, Ortiz’s father, Leo, told local reporters. Ortiz is
6:45 AM ET The two-time defending champs are in trouble. The upstart challengers from Canada have them on the ropes with a chance to land a historic haymaker on Monday night. The Toronto Raptors have built a 3-1 series lead in the NBA Finals thanks in large part to their ability to control the Golden
8:28 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Akhtar Sarfraz, the former Pakistan and Peshawar batsman, has died aged 43 after a battle with cancer. A left-hander, Sarfraz played four ODIs between December 1997 and October 1998, scoring 66 runs in four innings. He had a more successful domestic career – 5720 runs in 118 first-class games and