1:30 PM ET NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace will be leaving Richard Petty Motorsports after the 2020 season, he announced on social media Thursday. “This was not an easy decision as I have nothing but the utmost respect for Richard Petty and his family, but I believe it’s time for someone else to take over the
9:31 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Jennifer Brady had a calm demeanor as she took the court for a US Open quarterfinal match against Yulia Putintseva on Tuesday at Arthur Ashe Stadium. A casual observer would never have known that it was the 25-year-old American’s first major quarterfinal. When the last point was won after just
7:00 AM ET Gerrit Cole has a home run problem. Look, the New York Yankees have plenty of issues, and Cole is hardly the biggest of them, but when you sign the most lucrative contract for a pitcher in baseball history, the expectations are skyscraping, especially in New York and for a storied franchise that
6:00 AM ET Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Josh McCown set a pair of NFL records Sunday with one swipe of the pen. He became the oldest practice squad player in league history at age 41, and the first active player to work remotely — like the other side of the country remotely. Football typically doesn’t lend
7:26 PM ET In 2014, UFC strawweight Angela Hill became the first Black American woman to sign with the promotion, and on Saturday, she’ll become the first to headline a card when she faces Michelle Waterson in a Fight Night main event. Hill’s fight was originally scheduled to be the co-main event until Glover Teixeira
2:40 PM BST England have been drawn in the same group with Wales, Ireland and Georgia for the new Autumn Cup which consists of eight teams, organisers announced on Thursday. Eddie Jones’ men will participate in Group A and will meet Georgia in their first match at Twickenham on Nov. 14. Group B features France,
12:56 PM ET Bellator is back with a doubleheader this weekend — two cards on two straight nights at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Bellator 245 is Friday night, headlined by a rematch between former UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida and former Bellator light heavyweight champion Phil Davis. In the co-main event, former
Kieron Pollard took a four-wicket haul and Lendl Simmons played an unbeaten knock of 84 runs, as Trinbago Knight Riders defeated St Lucia Zouks by eight wickets in the final of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2020 on Thursday at the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium. With this, the Trinbago Knight Riders completed the first perfect
The opening weekend of Power 5 college football has finally arrived after one of the more challenging summers in modern history that included the coronavirus pandemic and a racial reckoning in America. Arguments have been made about whether games should happen because of the pandemic, and the Big Ten and Pac-12 postponed their fall football
7:20 AM ET A lot of fans seem to hate watching James Harden play. I get it. There is a numbing effect to the thump-thump-thump of Harden dribbling 20 times while four teammates stand in places chosen by Harden. But I have a soft spot for the visual Harden experience. He inspires a chess match
1:03 PM ET It took Julian Nagelsmann a week to get over RB Leipzig‘s loss in the Champions League semifinals to Paris Saint-Germain. He talks through their wins over Tottenham Hotspur and Atletico Madrid with me on Zoom, and evaluates where they fell short against PSG; you can sense him playing the matches again in
Sep 10, 2020 Every week, we’ll provide a handy recap and accompaniment to the latest episode of “Quest For The Stanley Cup,” the NHL docuseries about the playoffs, available exclusively in the U.S. on ESPN+. The second episode for the 2020 playoffs is titled “Sevens are Wild.” Describe this episode in 10 words or less.
Britain’s Geraint Thomas slipped to sixth overall at the Tirreno-Adriatico after an attacking finish to the first mountain stage of the race. Australian Lucas Hamilton won stage four in Cascia, while Canada’s Michael Woods kept the overall lead. Thomas and compatriot Simon Yates attacked on the final climb. But Yates’ Mitchelton-Scott team-mate Hamilton escaped on
Switzerland’s Marc Hirschi took stage 12 of the Tour de France for his first-ever stage win. Hirschi, 22, for Team Sunweb, moved to the front with 28km remaining of the 218km ride from Chauvigny to Sarran. The Swiss rider, in his first Grand Tour, had led for more than 80km on Sunday’s ninth stage before
9:03 AM ET Steve KimESPN After a long hiatus, boxing returned in the early summer months with a series of fight cards designed to get the business going. Those cards featured a handful of recognizable names and a few solid, if not spectacular fights. Heading into the fall, it’s time for the marquee events to
Sebastian Vettel has made the “ideal” choice in moving to Aston Martin next season, says Lewis Hamilton. Vettel’s move to the team currently known as Racing Point was announced on Thursday, one day after current driver Sergio Perez said he was leaving. Hamilton said: “I was really pleased to hear it, the team has new
IPL 2020: Wasim Jaffer with Chris Gayle in KXIP training.© Twitter With the Indian Premier League (IPL) set to begin on September 19, the teams seem to have settled down in their bio-secure bubbles in United Arab Emirates (UAE) as suggested by their respective social media handles. Outfits like Chennai Super Kings faced plenty of
Sep 5, 2020 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On the morning of Feb. 7, 2017, as master sommelier Randall Bertao scanned the list of 79 students who were set to spend the next two days taking the Court of Master Sommeliers introductory exam, one name jumped off the page. He wasn’t expecting to see Cristie Kerr, seeking