David Warner said it felt “bizarre” to be playing England without a crowd following Australia’s two-run defeat by their arch-rivals in a Twenty20 international at Southampton on Friday that marked the tourists’ first competitive match in nearly six months. All of England’s home fixtures this season are being played behind closed doors in response to
1:50 PM ET Marc Raimondi This weekend’s super-sized UFC main event is now official. Alistair Overeem and Augusto Sakai both weighed in successfully Friday morning for their heavyweight headliner. Overeem weighed 252.5 pounds and Sakai came in at 261.5. The non-title heavyweight limit is 266 pounds. Overeem and Sakai will meet Saturday night to cap
11:18 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Six-time US Open champion Serena Williams and 2017 winner Sloane Stephens are set to face off at Arthur Ashe Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Saturday afternoon (2 p.m. ET, ESPN2) in the most hyped match of the third round of the 2020 US Open.
11:26 PM ET The UFC is planning a return trip to Fight Island in Yas Island, Abu Dhabi at the end of the month. Sources confirmed to ESPN multiple reports on Friday that the UFC will promote five live events in Abu Dhabi, beginning with its UFC 253 pay-per-view event on Sept. 26. The events
8:41 PM ET Associated Press Clint Bowyer was as puzzled as anyone last May returning to Darlington Raceway about whether NASCAR could handle a pandemic. He remembers seeing scores of people camping out at a dragstrip not far from the South Carolina racetrack — “Packed to the gills with people in the pit area,” he
7:50 AM ET NHL Insiders The Vegas Golden Knights and Vancouver Canucks are headed to a Game 7, after the Canucks came back from a 3-1 series deficit. Who will emerge victorious and move on to the Western Conference finals? Our panel identifies the X factors in the game, and makes predictions on the final
9:31 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After a nearly three-hour delay to start the match, fifth-seeded Alexander Zverev came back from an early deficit to beat Adrian Mannarino, 6-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, in the third round at the US Open on Friday. The United States Tennis Association cited a conversation with health officials as the reason
5:48 PM ET Associated Press CADIZ, Spain — American golfer John Catlin will take a two-stroke lead into the weekend at the Andalucia Masters after being the only player in the field to have carded two under-par rounds at Valderrama. Catlin started the day in a four-way tie for the lead and added a 1-under
8:32 PM ET In a surprising move, the Miami Dolphins are releasing quarterback Josh Rosen instead of working out a trade for him, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday. The Dolphins could have decided to keep him — and his $750,000 salary — as a backup, but they saw more value in cutting
8:00 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Five days later, Dustin Johnson and Jon Rahm are still going at it. They dressed about the same Friday for the Tour Championship, matched birdies on five holes and wound up tied for the lead at East Lake. That required Rahm getting the better of Johnson again. Rahm,
6:38 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Long shot Shedaresthedevil won the Kentucky Oaks in record time, overtaking favorite Gamine at the top of the stretch and holding off Swiss Skydiver for a 1½-length victory Friday in the 146th Kentucky Oaks for fillies at Churchill Downs. Shedaresthedevil was fresh off a Grade 3 stakes
6:04 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Indians manager Terry Francona is feeling better after undergoing surgeries and a hospital stay, but it may be some time before he’s healthy enough to rejoin the AL Central leaders. Francona has missed 23 games after having surgery for a gastrointestinal issue at the Cleveland Clinic and then
5:02 PM ET LA Clippers power forward Montrezl Harrell has won the 2019-20 Sixth Man of the Year award, a source confirmed to ESPN. For the third consecutive year, the Clippers have the league’s top sixth man after Lou Williams won the award the previous two seasons. The Clippers now have had the Sixth Man
6:46 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that he intends to give the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to longtime football coach Lou Holtz. Trump made the announcement at the White House as Holtz looked on. The president did not announce a date for the ceremony
5:52 PM ET TCU announced Friday that its season-opening football game against SMU will not be played on Sept. 11 as planned because of positive coronavirus tests. “In the course of following CDC guidelines and our aggressive testing and contact tracing strategy, we discovered that some student-athletes and support staff in our football program have
6:54 PM ET In order to account for student-athletes who will have to miss games because of positive coronavirus tests, contact tracing and regular injuries, the Big 12 determined on Friday that teams with at least 53 players available — including seven offensive linemen, four interior defensive linemen and one quarterback — must play or
7:44 PM ET ATLANTA — Rory McIlroy can keep a secret. Same for his caddie, Harry Diamond. They sat on the exciting news that McIlroy’s wife, Erica, was expecting a baby for a good bit of the PGA Tour’s restart of tournaments. Keeping that bottled up could not have been easy. It certainly didn’t help
7:42 PM ET DeAndre Ware isn’t just a fighter. He’s an EMT and firefighter from Ohio who put his skills to work outside the ring ahead of Saturday’s bout in Las Vegas. Inside the MGM Grand Conference Center a half-hour before weigh-ins for his fight against Steven Nelson, Ware jumped into action when Pete Susens,