Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 11:20 AM ET STUTTGART, Germany — There won’t be an all-American semifinal at the Stuttgart Open after Taylor Fritz was upset 6-4, 7-5 by qualifier Marton Fucsovics in the quarterfinals Friday, but Frances Tiafoe won his match to reach the last four. Fritz, the top-ranked American men’s player at No.
David Newton, ESPN Staff WriterJun 16, 2023, 06:00 AM ET Close David Newton is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Carolina Panthers. Newton began covering Carolina in 1995 and came to ESPN in 2006 as a NASCAR reporter before joining NFL Nation in 2013. You can follow Newton on Twitter at @DNewtonespn. CHARLOTTE,
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterJun 14, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. LEXINGTON, Ky. — Devin Leary is always ready to answer the question. He thinks about it a lot. He mentioned it when he first met Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops and he
Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 08:27 AM ET LONDON — Romanian tennis player Petru-Alexandru Luncanu has been banned for five years and fined $40,000 in a match-fixing case, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Friday. Five out of seven match-fixing charges brought by the ITIA against Luncanu were upheld at an anti-corruption hearing, the agency
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterJun 16, 2023, 08:48 AM ET Patricio “Pitbull” Freire had just regained his Bellator featherweight title a few minutes earlier when he approached Scott Coker in the bowels of SAP Center in San Jose, California. “Pitbull,” Bellator’s franchise star, had a proposal for Coker, the promotion’s president, that night in April
Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJun 16, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. The headlines didn’t match the product last year out West. A sky-is-falling vibe was unavoidable following the announcement that USC and UCLA would be joining the Big Ten in 2024, leaving the Pac-12 unmoored and scrambling.
Andrew Lopez, ESPNJun 16, 2023, 07:50 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — Tuesday was a typical summer day in Regis Prograis’ hometown. A bright, blue sky gave way to afternoon showers that drenched the New Orleans area, forcing Prograis and his team to head inside the empty Smoothie King Center early before beginning the open workout
Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentJun 16, 2023, 05:00 AM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. LAS VEGAS — Thursday’s Concacaf Nations League (CNL) semifinal against Mexico was the U.S. men’s national team’s version of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” in that there were enough deviations from perceived
The exit of Ishan Kishan from the upcoming Duleep Trophy left the selectors in dilemma. The India wicketkeeper-batter, who was named in the squad for the World Test Championship final against Australia opted out of the East Zone team, just a month before the West Indies tour. As a replacement, the selectors have named Bengal
The Super Rugby semifinals are upon us in the southern hemisphere, while there is no shortage of talking points as the northern club season winds down and we continue to shift our focus to the Rugby World Cup. Read on as we wrap up some of the stories you might have missed across the rugby
Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJun 15, 2023, 11:45 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Rory McIlroy‘s first shot of the 2023 U.S. Open traveled 380 yards off the first tee — the longest drive of the day on that hole. One of McIlroy’s last three shots, however, traveled only two inches after he more or less missed the
Joon Lee, ESPNJun 15, 2023, 03:36 PM ET Close Previously a Staff Writer at Bleacher ReportCornell University graduate NEW YORK — Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred fired back Thursday against the backlash facing Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher, who hopes to move the team to Las Vegas. “I feel sorry for the fans in
Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJun 15, 2023, 11:27 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia LOS ANGELES — The United States Golf Association prides itself on having the most difficult test in men’s professional golf. Thursday’s opening round of the 123rd U.S.
ESPN News Services Jun 15, 2023, 09:56 PM ET Ray Lewis III, the son of Baltimore Ravens legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer Ray Lewis, has died. He was 28 years old. Lewis’ younger brother, Rahsaan Lewis, posted about his sibling’s death Thursday in an Instagram story. Details of the circumstances surrounding his death
Jun 14, 2023, 11:22 PM ET Marvin Vettori meets Jared Cannonier in the middleweight main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Las Vegas. The main card at the UFC Apex is on ESPN and ESPN+ at 10 p.m. ET, preceded by prelims on ESPN2 and ESPN+ at 7 p.m. Vettori (19-6-1) has alternated
ESPN News Services Jun 15, 2023, 10:01 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Less than four hours before Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final was set to begin Tuesday on the Las Vegas Strip, authorities in Nevada arrested a man they say threatened to carry out a mass shooting at T-Mobile Arena, the venue where
Adam Teicher, ESPN Staff WriterJun 15, 2023, 09:46 PM ET Close Covered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes won’t often wear the championship ring he collected Thursday night for the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVII victory. He’ll keep it in a safe
Jun 15, 2023, 06:26 PM ET Nikola Jokic has had a media tour unlike those usually seen from a Finals MVP. It certainly wouldn’t be hard for him to bask in the glory of it all. Jokic’s performance in leading the Denver Nuggets to the franchise’s first title was historic — he became the first