6:57 PM ET Associated Press HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Stewart Cink shot a steady, stress-free 70 to cap off a dominant, record-breaking week that resulted in his third RBC Heritage title on Sunday. The 47-year-old Cink finished at 19-under 265 at Harbour Town, 4 shots better than Emiliano Grillo and Harold Varner III. Grillo
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4:07 PM ET Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant suffered a left thigh contusion in the first quarter Sunday against the Miami Heat and has been ruled out for the remainder of the game. Durant appeared to get tangled with Miami’s Trevor Ariza when he drove toward the basket for a layup in the first quarter.
6:00 PM ET South Dakota State (5-1), winner of the Missouri Valley Football Conference, earned the top seed in the 16-team field for spring FCS playoffs, which was announced Sunday. South Dakota State, which is making its 10th appearance in the championship, will open play April 24 against Holy Cross (3-0), the Patriot League champion.
5:51 PM ET United States’ John Catlin claimed his third European Tour title in eight months after defeating Germany’s Maximilian Kieffer in a thrilling playoff battle at the Austrian Open on Sunday. Catlin finished with a round of seven-under-par 65 at Diamond Country Club, near Vienna, to tie for the top spot at 14-under alongside
3:22 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Teddy Ballgame is about to become Teddy Blockchain. Hall of Famer Ted Williams is coming to the digital memorabilia market with a release of nine different cards that follow the No. 9’s career from skinny rookie to Cooperstown inductee. The collectors’ items offered by Williams’ daughter are hand
3:13 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former Kansas City Chiefs tight end Fred Arbanas, a key member of their first two Super Bowl teams in the 1960s and ’70s who later had a long career in county politics, has died. He was 82. The Jackson County Democratic Party in Missouri, for which
9:48 AM ET Fifteen of Europe’s biggest clubs are in talks to launch a European Super League, planned to start in time for the 2023-24 season, with a $6 billion (£4.3 bn) fund backing the project, sources have told ESPN. If the initiative is successful, it would threaten the existence of the Champions League —
IPL 2021: Rishabh Pant led Delhi Capitals to their second win of the season against Punjab Kings.© BCCI/IPL Newly appointed Delhi Capitals skipper Rishabh Pant, who on Sunday led his team to their second win in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), said he has started enjoying captaincy. Pant was made the Delhi Capitals skipper
The Youth Boxing World Championships is taking place in Kielce, Poland.© AFP India’s Poonam entered the semifinals of the featherweight (57kg) category while five of her compatriots advanced to the quarterfinals of the Youth Boxing World Championships after securing comfortable wins in their last-16 stage bouts in Kielce, Poland. Poonam, who has never lost a
2:26 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Roger Federer announced Sunday he will play at the French Open, and the Swiss star is preparing for it on home clay at a tournament in Geneva next month. The 20-time Grand Slam champion revealed his plans on his official Twitter page. “Happy to let you know that
George Russell accused Valtteri Bottas of lacking respect for the dangers of Formula 1 after they crashed in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Stewards decided the 200mph collision between them was a racing incident and took no disciplinary action. Russell said: “Your heart stops for a moment when you crash at over 200mph. You don’t
7:47 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. There are six games on the Sunday schedule in the NHL this week, and four of those six matchups are within the East Division. A quick glance at the standings shows that a
11:54 AM ET The NBA has instructed teams to be vigilant about the impact of a verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial for the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis this week, including the possibility of game postponements, sources told ESPN. The looming specter of possible protests, civil unrest and team reactions in the aftermath
12:37 PM BST France put on a blistering display as they thrashed Ireland 56-15 in Dublin to win Pool B of the Women’s Six Nations to set up a final clash with fierce rivals England next weekend. Ireland held their own in the opening period but the rampant French crossed for five tries in the
10:47 AM ET MONACO — Stefanos Tsitsipas won the Monte Carlo Masters without dropping a set, beating Andrey Rublev 6-3, 6-3 on Sunday for his first title this year and sixth overall. Fourth-seeded Tsitsipas was in dominant form as he edged 4-3 ahead of the sixth-seeded Russian in their career meetings, having also beaten him
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took his first win of the year in a chaotic, incident-strewn Emilia Romagna Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton fought back to second after a rare error. Rain at the start led to one of the most topsy-turvy races in memory as the treacherous conditions caught out the vast majority of drivers
Mark Cavendish won his fourth stage of the 2021 Tour of Turkey as he sprinted to victory in Sunday’s finale. The British Deceuninck-Quick Step rider had not won a race for nearly three years before the eight-stage event, the wins heralding a major return to form. The 35-year-old is one of cycling’s most successful sprinters,
1:12 AM ET Jake Paul took less than two minutes to knock out Ben Askren and claim his third pro boxing win on Saturday night. In the main event of a Triller card inside of Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Paul, a social media standout who made his name on YouTube and a variety of other platforms,