7:52 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Alexander Zverev rallied to reach his first Grand Slam final, beating Pablo Carreno Busta 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 at the US Open. The No. 5 seed completed his first career comeback from two sets down and the first in the US Open semifinals since Novak
Month: September 2020
6:00 PM ET Houston Rockets forward Danuel House has left the NBA campus and will not play again this season following a violation of the league’s health and safety protocols, the league announced Friday. According to the NBA, an investigation found that House had an unauthorized guest in his hotel room for multiple hours Tuesday.
3:14 PM ET Associated Press BALTIMORE — The official state song “Maryland, My Maryland” will not be performed before the Preakness next month because the lyrics are perceived by some to be racist. A spokesperson for Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness, said Friday the tradition of playing the song before the race will
2:44 PM ET Cris Cyborg is back, and her first Bellator title defense will ring in the promotion’s debut on a new network. Cyborg will put her Bellator women’s featherweight title on the line against Arlene Blencowe on Oct. 15 at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, promotion officials announced Friday. The card will air in
8:26 PM GMT There’s a key reason performances against Australia remain the barometer of health for England sides. It’s not just history or tradition. And it’s not just that there’s no such thing as a dead encounter involving a side which appears to have a love of beating England in their DNA. It’s that, however
2:19 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Vera Zvonareva and Laura Siegemund won the US Open women’s doubles title in their first tournament together, beating the third-seeded duo of Yi-Fan Xu and Nicole Melichar 6-4, 6-4 on Friday. Zvonareva, a Russian who turned 36 this week, added this title to the 2006 US Open
Sep 10, 2020 Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Former undisputed world middleweight champion Alan Minter has died aged 69. Minter, from Sussex in England, won the WBC-WBA world middleweight titles with a
Sep 10, 2020 Steve KimESPN The proposed bout between WBO junior lightweight world titleholder Jamel Herring and former two-division world champion Carl Frampton will now take place in January. “The timeline apparently now is that they’re looking at January,” Herring told ESPN on Thursday afternoon. “I actually wanted to come back in December.” The originally
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The Week 1 NFL schedule is stacked with great matchups. Our NFL Nation reporters bring us the keys to every game, a bold prediction for each matchup and final score picks. Additionally, ESPN Stats & Information provides a stat to know for each game, and the Football Power Index (FPI)
7:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” Fernando Tatis Jr. was wearing a microphone during a recent Padres game, chatting with the broadcasters from his shortstop position in the middle of the second-inning action. It was charming audio —
12:58 PM ET Steve KimESPN On Tuesday, Canelo Alvarez filed a lawsuit against his promoter, Golden Boy Promotions, and his broadcast partner, DAZN, alleging breach of contract and seeking a minimum of $280 million in damages. Two years ago, Alvarez and DAZN agreed to the richest deal in boxing history. Alvarez would fight on DAZN
7:24 AM ET Angela Hill is still quite certain she did enough to beat Claudia Gadelha in a controversial split-decision loss to the former strawweight title challenger in May. But afterward, Hill trained as though she had lost — and therein lies the silver lining. Hill (12-8, 7-8 in the UFC) will face Michelle Waterson
4:55 PM GMT South African cricket has hit rock bottom after the CSA board and its executive were instructed to step aside by the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) following nine months of administrative implosion. In that time, CSA suspended and dismissed a CEO (and other senior officials), saw another CEO and
8:00 AM ET EA Sports have released their Top 100 overall player ratings for FIFA 21 and, as usual, the updated grades have made waves among both gamers and the players themselves. 1 Related The major headline news is that Lionel Messi has seen his FIFA rating fall for the first time in four years
6:40 AM ET Zac Taylor, the second-year coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, was kind enough to return a call last week. His team drafted quarterback Joe Burrow with the No. 1 pick in April’s NFL draft, and I told him we were doing a story about expectations for rookie quarterbacks. His first response was basically
1:35 AM BST ESPN staff Rugby Australia has pulled off a major coup in what has been a disastrous year for the code, securing the entire Rugby Championship which will be played across November and December this year. SANZAAR on Friday confirmed that Australia had won the right to stage the tournament “hub” after New
Colombian Daniel Martinez claimed a superb maiden Tour de France stage win as Primoz Roglic extended his lead in the overall standings. EF Pro Cycling’s Martinez went clear of Lennard Kamna in the final metres of a gruelling finishing climb on stage 13. But Roglic now leads by 44 seconds overall, from fellow Slovenian Tadej
Mitchelton-Scott’s British rider Simon Yates broke away to win stage five of Tirreno-Adriatico and take overall lead of the race. Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas was second in Friday’s stage and climbs up from sixth place overall to third. Rafal Majka of Bora-Hansgrohe, who was third in the stage on the same time as Thomas, is
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