10:00 AM ET Associated Press Roush Fenway Racing announced a 12-race sponsorship deal Wednesday with Guaranteed Rate to fund Ryan Newman‘s car through the remainder of the 2020 NASCAR season. The deal between Roush and the retail mortgage lender is a large one in the current economic climate; teams are piecing together funding in small
Chris Froome lost ground on Team Ineos rival Egan Bernal on the first day of the Criterium de Dauphine. Bernal sits five minutes 33 seconds ahead of Froome after the gruelling opening 218km stage from Clermont-Ferrand to Saint-Christo-en-Jarez. Jumbo-Visma’s in-form rider Wout van Aert won the stage, six seconds ahead of Bernal – who was
10:23 AM BST Stade Francais has put its side into isolation after an increase in positive coronavirus cases, the club said in a statement on Monday. Montpellier have also halted training after a player’s partner came into contact with someone who had tested positive for the virus. 1 Related “Following the COVID-19 tests carried out
The UCI’s Road World Championships will not take place in Switzerland in September. The event had been scheduled to go ahead in Aigle-Martigny on 20 September, but the Swiss government has extended its restrictions on gatherings of more than 1,000 people to 1 October amid the coronavirus pandemic. Organisers are now searching for an alternative
ICC keeps back-up venues for its tournaments as a standard practice.© AFP Sri Lanka and United Arab Emirates are the two back-up countries being zeroed in on by the ICC, in case India is unable to host next year’s T20 World Cup. While there is still one year to go before the mega event which
7:00 AM ET The fans’ volume increased as Vegas Golden Knights forward Alex Tuch raced into the Colorado Avalanche zone during overtime. They let out a jubilant roar when he snapped a shot over goalie Philipp Grubauer to win the game and earn his team the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference half of
6:58 AM ET The start of the NHL’s Stanley Cup quarterfinals set the bar rather high. Like, five overtimes high. Before the next day of competition, please check out our staff picks for each series, including the uncomfortable number of us predicting that the best team in the NHL during the regular season will get
Formula 1 has delayed the first of two deadlines for teams to sign up to be part of the championship from 2021. Teams were in line to receive a bonus if they committed to F1 by 12 August, but that deadline has been moved back six days to allow time for more talks. F1 said:
6:53 AM ET Editor’s note: When Daniel Cormier walks to the Octagon on Saturday to challenge heavyweight champ Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 252, the MMA world will be viewing it through the prism of historical significance. Cormier, 41, has said that this will be the last fight of his storied career,
Ferrari and Renault have confirmed they will appeal against the punishment given to Racing Point in Formula 1’s “copying” controversy. No date has been set for the hearing at the FIA International Court of Appeal. McLaren lodged an intention to appeal but decided not to proceed, while Racing Point and Williams have until Wednesday to
4:00 AM ET Gabriele Marcotti Mark Ogden The old sports trope whereby staying at the top is tougher than getting to the top might not apply to football the way it once did, but it’s clear that after winning the Premier League and Champions League in successive seasons, Liverpool will want to think carefully about
2:11 AM ET Diego Valeri raised the MLS is Back Tournament trophy, an expression on his face that seemed both maniacal and gleeful. He was soon joined by his teammates, jumping and shouting in unison, with masks that read “Champions” mostly staying on. Off to the side, Portland Timbers owner Merritt Paulson engaged in a
10:19 PM ET The final spot in the Western Conference playoffs will come down to a weekend play-in, where the No. 9 seed will have to win two games against the No. 8 seed — Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET on ABC and, if necessary, Sunday at 4:30 p.m. ET on ABC — to make
7:00 AM ET The numbers stand out more than they normally would after 16 Major League Baseball games — for reasons we are all too familiar with that involved banging garbage cans and other Houston Astros-related nonsense in 2017 and into the 2018 season: Jose Altuve: .183George Springer: .182Alex Bregman: .224 Those were the batting
10:20 PM ET In the social sciences, there is a concept called a “wicked problem.” It was coined by University of California, Berkeley professor Horst Rittel and describes, in effect, a unique problem that has no right answers. Whatever you choose to solve a wicked problem is a “one-shot operation” that cannot be undone. You
10:47 PM ET Associated Press The LPGA Tour has confirmed the 2020 Buick LPGA Shanghai has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. China’s government last month announced all international sports events in the country would be canceled until the end of the year, and organizers of the Oct. 15-18 women’s golf tournament made the
Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma showcased their chemistry in a video posted on Instagram by India captain.© Instagram Virat Kohli took to Instagram on Wednesday to share a video in which he can be seen competing with his wife Anushka Sharma in a fun and interactive game where the couple tests out who knows who
9:59 PM ET The first game of the first round of the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs began at 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday, between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Columbus Blue Jackets. It didn’t end until the fifth overtime, which was 6 hours, 24 minutes later in real time. Along the way, playoff records for