2:14 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Top-seeded Rafael Nadal stayed on course for an elusive first title at the Paris Masters after beating Jordan Thompson 6-1, 7-6 (3) on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals. Nadal has won 86 career titles, including 35 in Masters events, but lost his only final at the Bercy Indoor
Month: November 2020
10:07 AM ET UFC light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz said he wants to wait until March before defending his belt against middleweight champ Israel Adesanya, who is looking to become the eighth fighter in UFC history to hold two belts simultaneously. Blachowicz, who beat Dominick Reyes for the title Sept. 26, and his wife are
Jasprit Bumrah won the man-of-the-match award for his stunning performance against Delhi Capitals in Qualifier 1 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 to help Mumbai Indians reach the final. The India pacer took four wickets for 14 runs in his four overs as MI crushed DC by 57 runs, after setting them a 201-run target. In
5:58 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Catcher Bruce Maxwell, the only major league player to kneel during the national anthem in 2017 to protest racial injustice, has agreed to a minor league contract with the New York Mets for next year and will report to major league spring training. Maxwell was in the
9:47 AM ET There hasn’t been a trade in the NBA for almost nine months! Do you have the shakes? Let’s take a look at the broader questions that will define the wild next month — and maybe the next few years. How does a pandemic offseason unfold when almost every team is trying to
7:34 PM ET David Shaw walks into the hospital room and takes a seat next to the bed. He does this nearly every day, right around lunchtime. He looks at his younger brother, Eric, tubes snaking across his arms, machines beeping and whirring. Eric does not look like Eric anymore, his skin darkened, scars deepened,
11:23 AM GMT Finn Russell made his return to the Scotland squad for their impressive win over Wales in the Six Nations. Photo by GEOFF CADDICK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Scotland flyhalves Finn Russell and Adam Hastings will miss their upcoming Autumn Nations Cup games due to injury, head coach Gregor Townsend told the BBC. Russell limped
Belgian Jasper Philipsen held off Pascal Ackermann in an uphill sprint finish to win stage 15 of the Vuelta a Espana in tough conditions, as Primoz Roglic held on to his overall lead. The UAE Team Emirates rider, 22, took his first Grand Tour stage win on the longest leg of this year’s race. Britain’s
10:19 AM ET The New York Rangers avoided arbitration with center Ryan Strome, agreeing to a two-year, $9 million contract, according to multiple reports. Strome had a breakout season this year, with 18 goals and a career-high 59 points while centering the Rangers’ second line. He was also a plus-21. He hadn’t had more than
Saudi Arabia has rejected criticism over its hosting of Formula 1, insisting confirmation of its first race in 2021 “perfectly reflects the transformational journey the country is on”. The Arab kingdom will make its debut on the Grand Prix calendar next year with a night-time street race in Jeddah as part of a “long-term partnership”
8:51 AM GMT New Zealand loose forward Akira Ioane was on the brink of walking away from professional rugby last year until his father, former Samoa international Eddie, gave him a metaphorical “boot up the bum” and asked him if he would rather work a 9-5 job. “I came to, and said ‘no’,” said Ioane,
Virat Kohli Birthday Wishes: Team RCB had a surprise in store for their captain at midnight.© Virat Kohli/Twitter Royal Challengers Bangalore threw a grand celebration on the 32nd birthday of their captain Virat Kohli. At 12 am on November 5, the RCB squad gathered on what looked like a cruise ship and huddled around the
7:12 AM GMT There is no hiding from the obvious: The Wallabies have played truly terrible rugby for the past 120 minutes. As a result, they have turned a promising first-up showing in Wellington and solid opening half in Auckland into an ugly 2-0-1 record that means the Bledisloe Cup has been filled with Steinlager,
7:14 AM ET “This was definitely not how this was supposed to go down.” The greatest American racer of his generation is on the phone. Jimmie Johnson is driving home from the racetrack and he is 100 percent correct. This is not how this was supposed to go down. Not this week. Not this year.
7:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” Before the year began, when we wondered whether the World Series champion would get an asterisk for the season being so short/anomalous/weird, I offered this prediction: The winner would be seen as
7:00 AM ET Back in July, I wrote a piece about the intersection between sports, hygiene and COVID-19. Much of it remains relevant, such as how frequent testing, face coverings and deep cleaning of high-trafficked areas can reduce the risk of infection. Some of it is very “writing about COVID-19 a few months into the
5:33 PM ET D.J. Uiagalelei was destined for greatness. He’s 6-foot-4, 250 pounds and built like a defensive end. His Clemson teammates tease him that he ought to be playing fullback, but that would be a waste of arguably the strongest arm in college football. There’s not a throw Uiagalelei can’t make. He got his
3:21 AM ET Manoj BhagavatulaESPN Less than a month after joining Roger Federer as the second man with 20 Grand Slam singles titles, Rafael Nadal now accompanies the Swiss in another exclusive club. Nadal’s Paris Masters opening-match win over compatriot Feliciano Lopez makes him the fourth man in the Open Era (since 1968) with at
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