6:41 PM ET Associated Press OCEANPORT, N.J. — Pneumatic won the final race worth points for the Kentucky Derby, cruising to victory in the $150,000 TVG.com Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday. Ridden by Joe Bravo, Pneumatic took the lead with about a quarter of a mile to go and got to the finish
5:20 PM ET Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said Saturday that his team had nine players test positive for COVID-19 from the team’s latest round of testing on Friday. The testing was following the team’s return from a break that Riley gave the team on Aug. 8, allowing the players to go home after it became
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7:27 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Carl Frampton and Michael Conlan both registered stoppage wins on Saturday to keep them on course for world title bouts later this year, or
6:11 PM ET One more fight. That’s what Daniel Cormier is promising. And it doesn’t come any bigger than his UFC 252 main event vs. Stipe Miocic on Saturday night at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Cormier (22-2, 1 NC) will close a legendary MMA career by challenging Miocic (19-3) for the heavyweight title.
7:13 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Ryan Newman expects to get a little emotional when he drives into Daytona International Speedway this weekend. His last race at Daytona ended with Newman exiting in the back of an ambulance as countless onlookers feared for his life. Newman will return to the scene of
6:03 PM ET Attention is the utmost compliment in public life, and Damian Lillard has received plenty of it over the past week. In his Portland Trail Blazers‘ win-or-go-home squeaker on Thursday night, the Brooklyn Nets threw two bodies at Lillard before he even crossed half court. It seemed the most sensible strategy after Lillard
Double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso will start the Indianapolis 500 in 26th place. The 39-year-old Spaniard posted a four-lap qualifying speed of 228.678mph in his Arrow McLaren car. American Marco Andretti set the pace at 231.351mph. Alonso said: “Did not have the speed but happy with the run. Some interesting people around our
3:24 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Belinda Bencic became the latest top tennis player to pull out of the US Open, meaning three of the four female semifinalists in 2019 will not be at the Grand Slam tournament this year. Bencic wrote on social media on Saturday that she “made the difficult decision
3:35 PM ET Associated Press GREENSBORO, N.C. — Si Woo Kim had a hole in one on the way to a 62 for a two-shot lead over Doc Redman and Rob Oppenheim through three rounds of the Wyndham Championship on Saturday. Kim, who’s at 18-under after 54 holes, made history three years ago when at
10:29 AM ET Saturday’s game between the Reds and Pirates has been postponed after a Cincinnati player tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, a source told ESPN’s Buster Olney. The teams were informed of the positive test after Friday’s game in CIncinnati. The Athletic first reported that a Reds player had tested positive. The Reds
3:11 PM ET Multiple Vanderbilt football players, including senior linebacker and leading tackler Dimitri Moore, have informed coach Derek Mason that they plan to opt out this season over concerns about the coronavirus. The 14 SEC schools, including Vanderbilt, are scheduled to begin practice on Monday. “We’ve had five or six opt out, and I
6:00 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Selfish. Not committed. Questionable work ethic and drive. Gets angry when things don’t go his way on the field. Doesn’t take football seriously. Jacksonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette has been described these ways at one point or another over the past three years. It’s obviously not the kind
12:28 PM ET The New Orleans Pelicans dismissed coach Alvin Gentry, sources told ESPN on Saturday morning. After a disappointing performance in the NBA’s Orlando restart, the franchise moved quickly on Gentry’s removal. Gentry had one year left on his contract. The Pelicans move into the coaching marketplace with the Brooklyn Nets and Chicago Bulls.
2:24 PM ET Scotland’s Connor Syme carded an incredible bogey-free 63 to take a one-shot lead heading into the final round of the Celtic Classic in Wales. England’s Sam Horsfield had taken a one-stroke lead into Saturday with Syme four shots off his lead and struggling to keep up with Belgium’s Thomas Pieters. However, Pieters
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1:01 PM ET Romanian top seed Simona Halep beat compatriot Irina-Camelia Begu in straight sets in the semifinals of the Prague Open on Saturday to set up a final with third seed Elise Mertens of Belgium. Halep was broken three times in the first set but managed to win the tiebreak before Begu, who finished
Not a single ball was bowled on Day 3 of the second Test in Southampton.© AFP Rain meant there was no play at all on the third day of the second Test between England and Pakistan at Southampton on Saturday in a match already plagued by stoppages for bad weather. Play should have resumed at