Month: August 2024

Getty Images Jack Skelton BBC Sport Senior Journalist 1 hour ago Dutch rider Charlotte Kool surged to win stage one of the Tour de France Femmes in a bunch sprint finish in The Hague. DSM-Firmenich PostNL’s Kool kicked clear with around 100m to go and held off the chasers to claim the first leader’s yellow
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Aug 12, 2024, 11:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Brandt Snedeker will serve as one of Keegan Bradley’s vice captains on the U.S. Ryder Cup team which will try to reclaim the trophy from Europe next year at Bethpage Black in New York, the PGA of America said on Monday. Snedeker, a nine-time winner on
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Aug 12, 2024, 09:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Vinícius Júnior is the latest target for the Saudi Pro League, a source has told ESPN, and the Real Madrid player is considering a proposal to move to the Gulf country. Vinícius, 24, helped lead Madrid to a Champions League and LaLiga double last season and
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Associated Press Aug 11, 2024, 02:22 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Max Scherzer, who has been limited to eight starts this season, is returning to Texas to get his fatigued right shoulder checked out, Rangers general manager Chris Young said Sunday. Scherzer was placed on the injured list Aug. 2 with fatigue
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Associated Press Aug 11, 2024, 08:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTREAL — Fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev beat Matteo Arnaldi 6-4, 6-2 on Sunday in the National Bank Open semifinals after waiting out a rain delay early in the second set. Rublev has victories this year in Madrid and Hong Kong. The 26-year-old Russian beat top-seeded
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Aug 11, 2024, 10:19 PM ET Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran said he “fell far short” after directing an anti-gay slur toward a fan during Sunday’s home game against the Houston Astros. In the bottom of the sixth inning, in between pitches with the count 1-2 and Houston up 10-0, Duran looked at a
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Associated Press Aug 11, 2024, 09:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GREENSBORO, N.C. — Aaron Rai took advantage of Max Greyserman‘s late meltdown to win the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title. Rai closed with a 6-under 64, with the 29-year-old Englishman making a 6½-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th
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Associated Press Aug 11, 2024, 08:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — Stephen Ames successfully defended his Boeing Classic title Sunday, birdieing the par-5 18th for a 5-under 67 and one-stroke victory over Ernie Els, Steven Alker and Robert Karlsson The 60-year-old Ames, a naturalized Canadian from Trinidad and Tobago, won has third
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Buster Olney, ESPN Senior WriterAug 11, 2024, 11:54 AM ET Close Senior writer ESPN Magazine/ESPN.com Analyst/reporter ESPN television Author of “The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty” Open Extended Reactions Mariners All-Star outfielder Julio Rodriguez is expected to be activated from the injured list and return to the lineup as Seattle’s designated hitter for Sunday
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