Month: September 2020

9:31 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After a nearly three-hour delay to start the match, fifth-seeded Alexander Zverev came back from an early deficit to beat Adrian Mannarino, 6-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, in the third round at the US Open on Friday. The United States Tennis Association cited a conversation with health officials as the reason
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5:48 PM ET Associated Press CADIZ, Spain — American golfer John Catlin will take a two-stroke lead into the weekend at the Andalucia Masters after being the only player in the field to have carded two under-par rounds at Valderrama. Catlin started the day in a four-way tie for the lead and added a 1-under
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8:32 PM ET In a surprising move, the Miami Dolphins are releasing quarterback Josh Rosen instead of working out a trade for him, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday. The Dolphins could have decided to keep him — and his $750,000 salary — as a backup, but they saw more value in cutting
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8:00 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Five days later, Dustin Johnson and Jon Rahm are still going at it. They dressed about the same Friday for the Tour Championship, matched birdies on five holes and wound up tied for the lead at East Lake. That required Rahm getting the better of Johnson again. Rahm,
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6:38 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Long shot Shedaresthedevil won the Kentucky Oaks in record time, overtaking favorite Gamine at the top of the stretch and holding off Swiss Skydiver for a 1½-length victory Friday in the 146th Kentucky Oaks for fillies at Churchill Downs. Shedaresthedevil was fresh off a Grade 3 stakes
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6:04 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Indians manager Terry Francona is feeling better after undergoing surgeries and a hospital stay, but it may be some time before he’s healthy enough to rejoin the AL Central leaders. Francona has missed 23 games after having surgery for a gastrointestinal issue at the Cleveland Clinic and then
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5:02 PM ET LA Clippers power forward Montrezl Harrell has won the 2019-20 Sixth Man of the Year award, a source confirmed to ESPN. For the third consecutive year, the Clippers have the league’s top sixth man after Lou Williams won the award the previous two seasons. The Clippers now have had the Sixth Man
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6:46 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that he intends to give the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to longtime football coach Lou Holtz. Trump made the announcement at the White House as Holtz looked on. The president did not announce a date for the ceremony
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5:52 PM ET TCU announced Friday that its season-opening football game against SMU will not be played on Sept. 11 as planned because of positive coronavirus tests. “In the course of following CDC guidelines and our aggressive testing and contact tracing strategy, we discovered that some student-athletes and support staff in our football program have
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6:54 PM ET In order to account for student-athletes who will have to miss games because of positive coronavirus tests, contact tracing and regular injuries, the Big 12 determined on Friday that teams with at least 53 players available — including seven offensive linemen, four interior defensive linemen and one quarterback — must play or
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7:42 PM ET DeAndre Ware isn’t just a fighter. He’s an EMT and firefighter from Ohio who put his skills to work outside the ring ahead of Saturday’s bout in Las Vegas. Inside the MGM Grand Conference Center a half-hour before weigh-ins for his fight against Steven Nelson, Ware jumped into action when Pete Susens,
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