8:52 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — While it’s not easy to fly under the radar as the fourth seed at a Grand Slam, Daniil Medvedev has managed to do exactly that at this year’s Australian Open. In a tournament beset by drama two weeks before a ball was even hit, the rangy Russian somehow avoided
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6:09 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Daniil Medvedev simply does not lose right now. Not to Top 10 opponents. Not to anyone, really. Certainly not to a drained Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Australian Open semifinals. Now let’s see what happens against Novak Djokovic. Medvedev made it to his second Grand Slam final as
7:00 AM ET Trying to play one football season during a pandemic is daunting enough. But parts of three seasons potentially … all in a span of a year? And with three different head coaches squeezed into a four-month window? Welcome to Austin Peay‘s world. “Honestly, it’s been a blessing, just to have football all
7:00 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN The seduction of Frank Espinoza — of Simmons Avenue in East LA, an occasional member of the City Terrace gang, son of a welder whose hands had been mangled by arthritis — began when he was a teenager, sometime in the mid-’60s, upon his maiden voyage to the Grand Olympic
IPL 2021: Kumar Sangakkara said English all-rounder Ben Stokes will be used tactically with the ball.© BCCI When it comes to all-rounders, Rajasthan Royals (RR) have many options to look upon but RR’s Director of Cricket, Kumar Sangakkara has opined that most of them would be used merely as batsmen in the upcoming Indian Premier
Alpha Tauri have set themselves the target of running consistently at the front of the midfield in 2021 as they launched their new AT02 car. Alpha Tauri, who won the Italian Grand Prix with Pierre Gasly last year, finished seventh in the championship. Team boss Franz Tost said: “In 2020, we were fighting against other
3:40 AM ET Jose Mourinho could be spared until the end of the season, as Tottenham Hotspur ponder his future — ESPN’s Insider Notebook has the latest. PLUS: Why Man United passed on Dayot Upamecano. Jump to: Man United passed on Upamecano | Alaba to Madrid not certain | Lazio to face relegation over COVID?
2:10 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka won the Australian Open women’s doubles final Friday night to collect a second Grand Slam title as a team. Mertens of Belgium and Sabalenka of Belarus had a 6-2, 6-3 win over the third-seeded Czech team of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova.
1:10 AM ET ESPN NBA reporters The Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers entered Thursday’s game with plenty of star power even with the Nets missing Kevin Durant and the Lakers without Anthony Davis. Besides Davis, LeBron James and the Lakers were also without starting point guard Dennis Schroder Thursday night. James faced Kyrie Irving,
12:12 PM GMT The Wallabies at last have options at No. 10 but the team is crying out for one or more of them to stamp their authority on Super Rugby AU in the same way that Richie Mo’unga made an irresistible All Blacks case across the Tasman with the Crusaders. The opportunity is there
1:17 AM GMT Four years on since the clean out at the Queensland Reds began, it’s time for the rebuilding era to end and for the side to deliver Brad Thorn some much needed silverware to cap off his tenure, and banish their rocky start to the year. Signing a one-year extension with the club
8:55 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Sam Burns had the ideal start at Riviera. His finish was even better. Burns opened with an 18-foot eagle putt and closed with three straight birdies Thursday in the Genesis Invitational, giving him a 7-under 64, the third time this season he has shot 64 in the
9:59 PM ET After spending 10 days in his hotel room because of COVID-19, Padraig Harrington was anxious to get back on the golf course Thursday for the opening round of the Genesis Invitational. He did so after a late-night drive of more than five hours from Pebble Beach, California to Los Angeles and the
9:00 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Former NFL receiver Vincent Jackson might have died in his Florida hotel room up to three days before being pronounced dead there, according to new information released by the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner on Thursday. Jackson, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver, was found
9:01 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said he had a conversation with Domingo German about his cryptic Instagram post on the day he returned to the team following a domestic violence suspension. “Everything is over,” German wrote in Spanish on Wednesday. German deleted his posts, then wrote:
8:20 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — The Australian Open is expecting to record a loss of more than $78 million (AU$100 million) for running the tennis season’s first Grand Slam amid the COVID-19 pandemic, tournament director Craig Tiley said Friday. The government-imposed restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the virus meant Tennis
8:06 PM ET Associated Press STATELINE, Nevada. — The NHL has moved up the starting time of the outdoor game Sunday between Boston and Philadelphia at Lake Tahoe by one hour to avoid the bright sunshine forecast for later in the afternoon. The game at Edgewood Tahoe Resort will start at 11 a.m. PST instead
7:15 AM ET Nine days before Super Bowl LV had officially put a bow on the 2020 NFL season, the calliope music already could be heard. The league’s 2021 quarterback carousel was in motion. Yes, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers still had to settle the business of a championship, but the