7:30 AM ET The pool for ESPN’s 2020 preseason All-America team was considerably smaller, which is weird. But what hasn’t been weird about this preseason, this offseason, this summer? In short, you won’t see any players from the Big Ten, the Pac-12, the Mountain West or any of the conferences not scheduled to play this
7:30 AM ET The strangest and seemingly longest offseason in college football history is finally over, and the ACC and Big 12 are scheduled to kick off this week, followed by the SEC in two weeks. No one knows how the season is going to go — or how long it will go — but
Ireland’s Sam Bennett won stage 10 of the Tour de France as Primoz Roglic retained the leader’s yellow jersey. Bennett, 29, edged out Australia’s Caleb Ewan in a sprint finish to give the Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider his first stage win on the Tour. Roglic safely negotiated the flat 168.5km route from Ile d’Oleron Le Chateau-d’Oleron to
9:27 AM ET The wheels kept turning last week as Dana White’s Contender Series continued to be one of the most important parts of the pandemic-mired year for the UFC. Last Tuesday, three DWCS winners were awarded UFC contracts and two others — plus one of the losing fighters — received an invitation back to
7:15 AM ET JAMES HARDEN CROUCHED, waiting for referee Ed Malloy to release the ball into the air. Dallas Mavericks forward Kristaps Porzingis stood three feet away across the center circle. The Houston Rockets‘ superstar is 6-foot-5. Porzingis is one of the tallest and longest players in the league, listed at 7-foot-3. Something didn’t add
4:44 AM ET When a France team starring Hugo Lloris and Yoann Gourcuff won the UEFA Under-19 Championship on July 29 2005, bringing to a close a season that saw Liverpool win the Champions League and CSKA Moscow the UEFA Cup, no one could possibly have imagined the relentless stranglehold Spanish football was about to
Prithvi Shaw said he couldn’t keep Axar Patel’s secret anymore.© Instagram Delhi Capitals opener Prithvi Shaw took to Instagram to share a video featuring a hilarious failed attempt at a shoot by teammate Axar Patel. “Axar bhai… sorry, par yeh secret mein aur nahi chuppa sakta (sorry, but I can’t keep this secret hidden anymore),”
Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme and members of staff from four teams have tested positive for Covid-19. Every rider returned a negative test though, so all 22 teams started the 10th stage of the tour. French health authorities and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) have said if two members of a team test positive,
Simon Roberts has been appointed acting team principal at Williams following the decision of the family who founded the team to step down. The 57-year-old joined Williams in May as managing director from McLaren, where he had spent 17 years. Roberts will run Williams while new owners Dorilton Capital, an investment group who bought the
8:32 AM ET ATLANTA — Nobody is popping champagne or throwing a party. It wouldn’t be appropriate in this climate. But if the PGA Tour wants to quietly crack a collective smile and celebrate a job well done, it would seem more than reasonable. The PGA Tour concluded its 2019-20 season on Monday at the
Lewis Hamilton says he feels “proud” of his decision to enter his own team into the new ‘climate-aware’ Extreme E racing series – the first step on a journey in which he could achieve real change beyond motorsport. Hamilton has a lot of pride. And rightly so. But, on the face of it, this could
6:59 AM ET In the 2020 NHL playoffs, you never know what you’re going to get. Game 1 of the Western Conference Final was a tight, 1-0 contest. Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final was an offensive explosion — well, for the Tampa Bay Lightning, at least. The Vegas Golden Knights and Dallas Stars
7:54 AM ET James OlleySenior Writer, ESPN FC Close Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood have been dropped from the England squad after breaching quarantine rules by inviting girls to the team hotel in Iceland. Foden, 18, and Greenwood, 20, made their senior international debuts in Saturday’s
12:00 AM ET Danny Ainge was no different than most other Boston Celtics fans in the waning seconds of Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. With just 0.5 seconds until victory, his team poised to take a commanding 3-0 lead over the defending champion Toronto Raptors, Boston’s president of basketball operations hollered at his
12:48 AM ET ESPN News Services San Diego Padres first baseman Eric Hosmer has a fractured left index finger, the team announced Monday after a 1-0 win over the Colorado Rockies. Hosmer was injured while bunting with two strikes for the second out of the first inning and was taken out of the game. He
By Matt WarwickBBC Sport Last updated on 57 minutes ago57 minutes ago.From the section Motorsport Six-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton will enter a team in the new Extreme E racing series. Briton Hamilton, 35, said the new climate-aware sport, which is scheduled to begin in January 2021, appealed “because of its environmental focus”.
11:16 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Victoria Azarenka hadn’t won a match in more than a year before she came to New York. Tsvetana Pironkova hadn’t played in a tournament since 2017. Now both are perhaps the unlikeliest players in the quarterfinals at the US Open. 1 Related They have made incredible comebacks, and what makes
6:34 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Dustin Johnson hit his stride at just the right time and it paid off in a big way. Johnson finally won the FedEx Cup on Monday by holding his nerve, hitting just enough fairways and making a few key putts when his lead began to shrink. He tapped