The Yorkshire racism hearings are set to be held in public later this month, after the Cricket Discipline Commission agreed to Azeem Rafiq’s request for greater transparency in the process. The move comes in the wake of an initial two-day hearing in October, with Tim O’Gorman, the chair of the CDC, confirming on Wednesday that
4:33 AM ET Connor O’Halloran Vivianne Miedema has scored two goals in five games in the WSL this season. Julian Finney/Getty Images Arsenal forward Vivianne Miedema has been granted a leave of absence by the club to “rest and recharge.” The Netherlands international, who finished at No. 11 in voting for the Ballon d’Or Femenin last
8:00 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — Standing by his locker stall last week, Eagles veteran defensive end Brandon Graham smiled as he rattled off all the key additions to the team over the last several months — a group that includes receiver A.J. Brown, edge rusher Haason Reddick, cornerback James Bradberry, safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson, linebacker Kyzir
12:51 AM ET DALLAS — It has been sixty years since the NBA has seen a season-opening scoring streak like Luka Doncic‘s sizzling start to the season. Doncic has scored at least 30 points in each of the Dallas Mavericks‘ first seven games, the longest 30-point streak to start a season since Wilt Chamberlain in
Oct 31, 2022 After less than two turbulent seasons, Auburn fired football coach Bryan Harsin on Monday. The decision came just before the school named a new athletic director in John Cohen, the former Mississippi State AD. Harsin’s firing also came less than 48 hours after the Tigers lost to Arkansas at home by two
2:21 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” PHILADELPHIA — Late last week, before Cristian Javier etched his name into baseball history, his Houston Astros teammates attempted to describe his fastball. By velocity alone, it is a milquetoast effort, flung
7:00 AM ET New York has seen athletes like Igor Shesterkin before. They come to the city heralded by years of hype. Their arrival marks a new era for their teams. Unfortunately, these young stars get chewed up and spit out by an unrelenting, impatient monster of a market. But some, like Shesterkin, exceed those
Big picture With seven wickets in hand and 27 balls remaining against England, New Zealand were 54 runs away from sealing a semi-final spot. But New Zealand lost, and that complicates things before their final Group 1 game against an unpredictable Ireland. One more defeat, and a window opens up for both England and Australia
7:47 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Dmitry Bivol arrived in Las Vegas this May as an afterthought. “The Canelo Alvarez Show” was in town — and attracting all the attention. Bivol was the WBA light heavyweight champion, and Alvarez, boxing’s top star, already had a deal in place to face Gennadiy Golovkin in September for a
6:07 AM ET Associated Press SHIGA, Japan — Japanese players Ai Suzuki and Momoko Ueda each shot 7-under 65s on Thursday to sit atop the first-round leaderboard at the LPGA Tour’s Toto Japan Classic. Two other Japanese player were a shot behind: Ayaka Furue and Sakura Koiwai. The tournament is being played at the Seta