Astana rider Alexey Lutsenko claimed the biggest success of his career with victory in stage six of the Tour de France as Britain’s Adam Yates retained the leader’s yellow jersey. Lutsenko left the rest of the breakaway behind on a tough climb 17km from the end of the 191km stage to Mont Aigoual. Yates finished
The Williams family will leave the team founded by Sir Frank Williams more than 40 years ago after this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. Sir Frank founded Williams in 1977 and turned it into one of the sport’s most successful teams. But after a series of difficult years, the team was sold to US investment group
8:34 AM ET ATLANTA — Here’s one unconventional way to look at Jon Rahm‘s dramatic 66-foot birdie putt on Sunday during the BMW Championship sudden-death playoff: It pulled him within 2 strokes of Dustin Johnson heading into this week’s Tour Championship. Forget that it was his fifth PGA Tour victory and second in 2020 and
2:21 PM ET After an offseason full of frustration, argument and crippling doubt, the 2020 college football season kicks off at the FBS level Thursday night with Central Arkansas visiting UAB on ESPN3, followed by eight other contests through Monday night. It seemed uncertain that we would get to this point this year, but since
8:33 AM ET NEW YORK — Like many toddlers, Stefanos Tsitsipas, at age 3, had an object he lugged everywhere he went. He was a Greek version of the iconic American comic strip character Linus, but instead of a blanket, Tsitsipas’ totem was a towel. “It was like a toy,” Tsitsipas, the No. 4 seed
7:40 AM ET Steve KimESPN For the second consecutive week, the boxing schedule is highlighted by a fight that took three attempts to launch. But another long-awaited title fight will finally happen — knock on wood — this Saturday night inside the Top Rank bubble at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas (ESPN+,
7:21 AM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Marc Raimondi UFC president Dana White said Tuesday night that a fight against Brock Lesnar would be a good way to introduce Jon Jones to the heavyweight division. But would it be?
Kings XI Punjab co-owner Ness Wadia on Thursday said the COVID-19 positive cases in the Chennai Super Kings contingent could have hit any of the eight franchises and wants only those people in the IPL bio-bubble who are “really required” to be with the players. Thirteen members of the CSK contingent, including two players, tested
5:27 AM BST One of the great fixtures on New Zealand’s rugby calendar is at last again a reality, with the North Island vs. South Island game set to be played at Wellington’s Sky Stadium on Saturday evening [NZT, 3am ET]. The rugby season, like all other sporting competitions in 2020, was turned on its
7:00 AM ET My favorite exhibit at the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey is a contraption that makes giant bubbles. There’s a rod attached to a pulley that’s dipped into soapy water. Yank the rope, the rod goes up and it makes a bubble the size of a car windshield. It’s pretty cool. The
6:56 AM BST Highlanders coach Aaron Mauger has not been offered a new contract by the team and ended his tenure after three years in charge, the Super Rugby side said Thursday. Former All Blacks midfielder Mauger was appointed to the role ahead of the 2018 season, taking over from Highlanders stalwart Tony Brown who
3:14 AM ET Some of the world’s best players were snapped up for a tiny fee; others cost a small fortune. But which do we think are the top moves, via position, a club has made since 2000? 2 Related In the second of our two-part series we explore some of the best attacking transfers
11:35 PM ET Fifty-one years later, it might still be the greatest baseball story ever told. The Miracle Mets of 1969, never having finished above .500, going from ninth place in 1968 to the World Series title. The hapless, bumbling, laughingstock New York Mets, most famous for the time Marv Throneberry hit an apparent game-winning
12:11 AM ET There was no self-pity coming from Dallas Stars coach Rick Bowness after his team lost Game 6 to the Colorado Avalanche and squandered a 3-1 series lead. “We put ourselves in this position. Hey, we’re in Game 7. Deal with it. We’ve just gotta make it a harder night for that whole
12:41 AM ET FOR A MOMENT, there was a question if Chris Paul would ever play a game in an Oklahoma City Thunder uniform. He arrived last summer after two franchise-altering trades, one sending out All-Star Paul George for young prospects and long-term assets and the other acquiring Paul (and more picks) for team icon
12:45 AM ET Glover Teixeira and Thiago Santos will not be fighting next week in a key UFC light heavyweight bout after all. Teixeira has tested positive for COVID-19 and the UFC Fight Night main event bout scheduled for Sept. 12 has been rescheduled, UFC officials confirmed Wednesday to ESPN. Teixeira vs. Santos is now
3:43 PM ET Georgia quarterback Jamie Newman, who was the expected starter, has decided to opt out this season over COVID-19 concerns and to prepare for the 2021 NFL draft, sources told ESPN’s Mark Schlabach on Wednesday. Newman, who came to Georgia as a graduate transfer from Wake Forest in January, started 16 games for
6:16 PM ET ESPN News Services Novak Djokovic fell behind when he lost a tiebreaker for the first time this year but rallied past Kyle Edmund in the second round of the US Open on Wednesday in New York. The top-seeded Djokovic won 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. Seeking his fourth US Open title, Djokovic