World champions Mercedes have reached an impasse with Formula 1 in negotiations over a new contract to stay in the sport after this season. Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said he believed they were “the biggest victim in terms of revenue loss” in the new financial arrangements proposed by F1. He added they had concerns
Month: August 2020
8:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors Athletic directors Scott Stricklin and David Coburn had discussed for months their intentions to keep the Florida-Florida State rivalry game on the schedule. No matter what. Then, on July 29, Coburn’s phone rang. It was Stricklin, the Florida AD, calling from Gainesville. There would be no Florida-Florida State game in
8:14 AM ET VITO MIELNICKI JR. WAS dripping sweat. On a steamy July morning in New Jersey, in the middle of the West Essex High School football field, the promising teenage boxer was about to receive his reward in the culmination of years of hard work. All those 4 a.m. alarms to get strength and
Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen is out of a coma and in a “good” condition, according to the Tour of Poland organisers. The 23-year-old suffered a high-speed crash at the finish of the opening stage of the race on Wednesday. Jakobsen had facial surgery, but his Deceuninck-QuickStep team denied he had suffered head and brain injuries.
7:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Brooklyn, Michigan, for a double-dip of races Saturday and Sunday. Racing begins Saturday with the FireKeepers Casino 400 (4 p.m. ET) and continues with the Consumers Energy 400 on Sunday (4:30 p.m. ET). Brad Keselowski won the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 in New
12:51 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Past US Open champions Kim Clijsters and Andy Murray received wild-card invitations for the Grand Slam tournament Thursday. The U.S. Tennis Association gave all of its other wild cards for singles play to Americans. 2 Related Clijsters is a four-time major champion and former No. 1 who
7:00 AM ET Under the NHL’s CBA, players are required to wear a suit, dress shirt and tie to the arena on game days “unless otherwise specified by the head coach or manager.” It’s the only major professional sports league in North America with such a strict dress code. “Once you get onto the plane,
6:00 AM ET There are not too many occasions when Pep Guardiola looks across at his opponent in the technical area and casts an envious glance, but when Manchester City face Real Madrid in the second leg of their Champions League round-of-16 tie on Friday, he might just do that with Zinedine Zidane. Here you
2:46 AM BST The South African Government has approved the return-to-play conditions for professional rugby in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing for domestic competition to start in the first two weeks of September. South African Rugby confirmed its plans, which include playing games behind closed doors, had been approved and published on Thursday.
1:45 AM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers have the best lineup in the National League and maybe the best pitching staff, but their two biggest highlights of the season have been two tremendous throws. The first, from Mookie Betts deep in the right-field corner to cut down Ketel Marte trying to stretch a double into
1:52 AM ET New South Wales deputy premier John Barilaro says his state would be willing to act as a temporary host for major sports events such as the Australian Open tennis Grand Slam if they cannot be held in neighbouring Victoria due to COVID-19. Barilaro told Australian radio on Friday he had written to
6:00 AM ET Cliff Harris would be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year, joining Dallas Cowboys teammates such as Roger Staubach, Bob Lilly, Randy White, Mel Renfro and Rayfield Wright, if not for the coronavirus pandemic causing a change in plans. Harris would carry with him a distinction his teammates did
12:12 AM ET NBA Insiders The first eight days of NBA seeding games have given us a lot of highlights — and not from the stars alone. We asked our writers to identify the up-and-coming players who have caught their eye over the first week-plus. Some of these players have been mainstays already this season,
Catch up with the best of the action from day 11 of London 2012, including Sir Chris Hoy’s heroics in the velodrome as he claims a historic sixth gold medal and the best celebration of the Games from men’s discus champion Robert Harting. Watch Tokyo 2020 on BBC Sport next summer. Available to UK users
8:44 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Erik Jones won’t return to Joe Gibbs Racing next season, ending his time with one of NASCAR’s top teams after three Cup seasons but several years in Gibbs’ driver development program. “We appreciate all Erik has done for Joe Gibbs Racing over the past several years,” Joe
8:33 PM ET As he has aged, Tiger Woods has built a bridge to the crowds he spent most of his prime ignoring. The galleries always loved him, and Woods decided in his latest act that he would finally love them back. He was never going to be Arnold Palmer, who made sure every fan
Aug 3, 2020 For the second straight week, ONE Championship has fortified its heavyweight division. The Asian MMA promotion signed former Greco-Roman wrestling world champion Amir Aliakbari to a contract Monday, Aliakbari’s manager, Ali Abdelaziz, told ESPN. The plan is for Aliakbari to debut in ONE at the end of October, Abdelaziz said. Aliakbari (10-1)
Aug 6, 2020 Fabian Allen has been ruled out of this month’s Caribbean Premier League after missing his flight from Jamaica to Barbados. Players, staff and officials were required to arrive in Trinidad two weeks before the start of the tournament on August 18, with a number of charter planes organised to fly them to
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