Month: June 2021

4:11 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — John Hunter Nemechek won his second consecutive NASCAR Truck Series race, leading the final 22 laps and finishing more than 3.3 seconds ahead of reigning Cup champion Chase Elliott on a steamy Saturday in Texas. Nemechek, already the series points leader, got his fourth victory this
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Star Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan has been let off lightly with a three-match suspension from the Dhaka T20 Premier League along with a fine of USD 5800 (BDT 5 lakh), following his on-field meltdown during a match between Mohammedan Sporting and Abahani Limited. According to ESPNcricinfo.com, Kazi Inam Ahmed, the chairman of the Cricket
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1:02 PM ET Denmark players surround stricken Christian Eriksen. WOLFGANG RATTAY/AFP via Getty Images Denmark‘s Euro 2020 Group B game with Finland was suspended just before half-time after Christian Eriksen collapsed on the field. Medics ran onto the field to help the Internazionale midfielder as he lay stricken on the ground. Players from both sides looked
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2:54 PM ET Major League Baseball is putting the final touches on a memo that will detail the sport’s rule against foreign substances, with the expectation among some sources that the document will be forwarded to teams sometime in the next few days and presented to coaching staffs and players. The actual order to umpires
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1:24 AM ET Philadelphia 76ers wing Ben Simmons had his hands full on defense in the first half of Friday’s eventual 127-111 win over the Atlanta Hawks in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Trying to keep up with Hawks star Trae Young is no simple assignment. But with the Sixers clinging to a
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11:21 AM ET As the College Football Playoff starts to consider a 12-team playoff, Georgia coach Kirby Smart says he believes college football is on track for its biggest change ever. “Most changes have been relatively small,” Smart told ESPN’s Marty & McGee on Saturday. “With the potential of what’s been proposed … [it’s] probably
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11:20 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Unseeded Barbora Krejcikova won her first Grand Slam singles title by beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 in the French Open final Saturday. This was only the fifth major tournament in singles for Krejcikova, a 25-year-old from the Czech Republic. She is the third unseeded women’s champion in
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9:48 AM ET Overnight leader Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall struggled to a third-round 73 on a blustery day at Scandinavian Mixed on Saturday but managed to hold onto a share of the lead. Hedwall, 32, shares the lead at 12-under in Gothenburg, Sweden with three other players following a tough day three that included four bogeys
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Shakib Al Hasan misbehaved with the umpires in a local T20 game in Dhaka.© Instagram/Bangladesh Cricket Sakib Ummey Al Hasan, wife of Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, posted a stern reply relating to the controversial incidents involving her husband in a Dhaka Premier League match on Friday. She hinted at a possible “plot” against her
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8:10 AM ET NHL Insiders We’re down to the final four teams in contention for the Stanley Cup. Our No. 1 vs. No. 4 matchup pits the Vegas Golden Knights against the Montreal Canadiens. Vegas was one of the top Cup favorites at the start of the postseason, while Montreal was not. But the Habs
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