Month: August 2024

Cup winners Feyenoord edged league champions PSV Eindhoven on penalties at the end of an eight-goal stalemate in the Johan Cruyff Shield, as the new Dutch season got off to a rollicking start on Sunday. The traditional season opener saw PSV ahead after nine minutes but they then had to come back three times to
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ESPN News Services Aug 4, 2024, 08:23 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman and his wife said Sunday their 3-year-old son, Maximus, was home from the hospital after being treated for Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder. In a joint social media post, the Freemans said Maximus had returned
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ESPN News Services Aug 4, 2024, 06:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WASHINGTON — Paula Badosa of Spain won the Mubadala Citi DC Open on Sunday for her first victory following a back injury, beating Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 in a rain-interrupted match. The 26-year-old Badosa, ranked as high as
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Associated Press Aug 4, 2024, 05:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MINNEAPOLIS — The woeful Chicago White Sox lost their 20th consecutive game Sunday, the majors’ longest skid in 36 years and one short of the American League record, as Chris Flexen was chased early in a 13-7 defeat against the Minnesota Twins. Royce Lewis
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Aug 4, 2024, 07:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Veteran free agent safety Quandre Diggs and the Tennessee Titans reached agreement on a one-year deal worth up to $5 million, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Sunday. The move reunites Diggs with former Seattle Seahawks teammate Jamal Adams in Tennessee. Adams said at the
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Associated Press Aug 4, 2024, 03:19 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — The U.S. was eliminated from the 3×3 men’s basketball competition on Sunday at the Paris Olympics after finishing 2-5 in pool play while playing its last five games without star Jimmer Fredette. “We fought hard, I think we just ran out of
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Associated Press Aug 4, 2024, 08:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PORTLAND, Ore. — Moriya Jutanugarn emerged from a tight pack late Sunday afternoon at Columbia Edgewater to win the Portland Classic for her third career LPGA Tour title and first individual victory in more than six years. Three strokes behind leader Andrea Lee going
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Associated Press Aug 4, 2024, 05:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PITTSBURGH — Leta Lindley won the U.S. Senior Women’s Open on Sunday at Fox Chapel after finishing second the previous two years, closing with a tournament-record 7-under 64 for a two-stroke victory. Lindley, 52, birdied five of the first eight holes and added two
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Aug 4, 2024, 04:31 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Arne Slot’s Liverpool beat Erik ten Hag’s Manchester United on Saturday. Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images New Liverpool manager Arne Slot said his side still have plenty of room for improvement despite wrapping up their preseason tour of the United States with a 3-0 win over
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Dan Murphy Close Dan Murphy ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame Pete Thamel Aug 4, 2024, 11:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions New Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore is one of seven members from the 2023 football program accused of violating NCAA rules
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Associated Press Aug 4, 2024, 11:59 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Scottie Scheffler delivered the best performance of his greatest year by rallying from four shots behind on Sunday with a 9-under 62 to win the Olympic gold medal in men’s golf in a thriller at Le Golf National. Already a six-time
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Dan Hajducky, ESPNAug 4, 2024, 02:22 PM ET Close Hajducky is an associate editor for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. Open Extended Reactions SCP Auctions has brokered the sale of a shirt Rafael Nadal wore
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Associated Press Aug 4, 2024, 03:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ARLINGTON, Texas — Nathan Eovaldi‘s franchise record streak of innings without a walk has ended after the Texas Rangers right-hander walked Boston’s Masataka Yoshida with one out in the first inning. Eovaldi got ahead 0-2 before throwing four consecutive balls Sunday. Yoshida checked his
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ESPN News Services Aug 4, 2024, 02:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Italy’s Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini beat Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider 2-6, 6-1, 10-7 in a match tiebreaker to win Olympic gold in the women’s doubles on Sunday. It was Italy’s first tennis gold medal at any Summer Olympics. Errani,
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Associated Press Aug 4, 2024, 02:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Emotional and unable to hold back tears, Carlos Alcaraz needed a moment to compose himself after losing to Novak Djokovic in the men’s tennis singles final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday. There would be no youngest-ever champion and no repeating Rafael
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Emily Kaplan, ESPNAug 4, 2024, 01:25 PM ET Close Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Open Extended Reactions SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Rory McIlroy said the Ryder Cup is the best tournament in golf, but after a spectacular final day of the men’s Olympic tournament — in which many of the sport’s biggest names battled
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