File image of Babar Azam (right) and Shaheen Shah Afridi.© AFP Pakistan captain Babar Azam, wicket-keeper Mohammad Rizwan and pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi are yet to get No Objection Certificates (NOCs) from the nation’s Cricket Board (PCB) to participate in the Global T20 Canada league. The PCB on Tuesday issued NOCs to 12 players
EPA Ben Collins BBC Sport journalist 4 July 2024, 17:02 BST Comments Updated 5 hours ago Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen clinched victory in a thrilling photo finish to win stage six of the Tour de France. The flat 163.5km route from Macon to Dijon was always likely to end in a bunch sprint, following Mark
Getty Images Andrew Benson F1 Correspondent At at Silverstone 27 minutes ago Max Verstappen says he and Lando Norris “agreed with 99% of everything” when they discussed their Austrian Grand Prix clash this week. The pair, who collided while fighting for the lead at the Red Bull Ring on Sunday, resume battle at the British
Jul 4, 2024, 10:24 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Carolina Hurricanes have signed forward Jack Roslovic to a one-year, $2.8 million contract, general manager Eric Tulsky announced Thursday. Roslovic, 27, joins the Hurricanes after spending the 2023-24 season with the Blue Jackets and Rangers, joining New York in March for the team’s postseason run.
Getty Images 4 July 2024 Track cycling and Great Britain have one of the most fruitful relationships in Olympic history. Team GB have won 78 medals on the track, with 33 of those being gold. The likes of Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins and Jason and Laura Kenny have become some of the most decorated Olympians
Getty Images 3 minutes ago Lizzie Deignan will become the first female British cyclist to compete at four Olympic Games after being selected by Team GB for Paris 2024. Deignan, who won road race silver at London 2012 and competed in Rio and Tokyo, has been named in a four-strong women’s road squad alongside national
Jul 4, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Here come the Orioles and … the Astros?! Baltimore, which sits atop the American League East, has jumped the division rival Yankees in our rankings to the No. 2 spot, trailing only the National League’s powerhouse Phillies. Elsewhere in the AL, Houston has steadily moved up
Associated Press Jul 3, 2024, 02:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Former Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter will be charged with a federal felony connected to the sports betting scandal that spurred the NBA to ban him, court papers indicate. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn filed what’s known as a criminal information sheet
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Roger Binny and Secretary Jay Shah gifted ‘NAMO 1’ jersey to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence on Thursday. BCCI took to social media and shared a photo of Roger Binny and Jay Shah gifting the Indian Cricket Team jersey to PM Modi with
Jul 4, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions From left to right, Emmanuel Ochoa, Ricardo Pepi and Fidel Barajas are three of the countless Mexican Americans navigating the life and career of a dual-national soccer player. Illustration by ESPN Ricardo Pepi, proudly boasting the red, white and blue as he represented the U.S. men’s national
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterJul 4, 2024, 07:10 AM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions GREENSBURG, Penn. — When COVID-19 shut down the world in the spring of 2020, Kevin May was like most coaches. He was bored. He’d been hired as the defensive
Sarah Barshop, ESPN Staff WriterJul 4, 2024, 06:00 AM ET Close Sarah Barshop covers the Los Angeles Rams for ESPN. She joined ESPN in 2016 to cover the Green Bay Packers for ESPN Milwaukee. She then moved to Houston to cover the Texans. She came to ESPN after working as a writer and editor for
Jul 4, 2024, 07:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Shakur Stevenson returns to the ring on Saturday to defend his WBC lightweight title against Artem Harutyunyan. The fight at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey (ESPN/ESPN+, 8:30 p.m. ET, with prelims on ESPN+ at 6:10 p.m. ET), will be the main event of a
Associated Press Jul 4, 2024, 06:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray all were included on the entry list for tennis at the Paris Olympics released by the International Tennis Federation on Thursday, as was Daniil Medvedev, who will be competing as a neutral athlete rather than
Haas Andrew Benson F1 Correspondent 4 July 2024, 09:00 BST Comments Updated 53 minutes ago Oliver Bearman will become the fourth British driver on the Formula 1 grid next season after signing to race for the US-based Haas team. The 19-year-old, who impressed in finishing seventh on his F1 debut for Ferrari at this year’s
Getty Images Andrew Benson F1 Correspondent 24 minutes ago Lando Norris says he will try to work out a way to prevent another on-track clash with Max Verstappen following their collision while battling for victory at the Austrian Grand Prix. “We want to race hard and we both know that,” the McLaren driver said in
Exuberant fans followed their cricketing heroes despite monsoon showers and heavy security deployment as the T20 World Cup-winning Indian team returned to a euphoric reception that included every element of a lively party, here on Thursday. Hundreds of supporters, holding placards congratulating their favourites and waving the national flag, braved the inclement weather to wait
Open Extended Reactions First-year All Blacks coach Scott Robertson has handed the No. 15 jersey to Stephen Perofeta ahead of Beauden Barrett for the opening Test against England in Dunedin. Robertson has otherwise named a predictable line-up, with TJ Perenara set to play his first Test since 2022 after beating out Finlay Christie at scrum-half.