Month: August 2024

Getty Images 14 minutes ago Welsh rider Josh Tarling will make his Grand Tour debut in September’s Vuelta a Espana. Tarling has been named in a youthful Ineos Grenadiers squad for the three-week Spanish race and will be among the favourites for the opening-day time trial. The 20-year-old from Aberystwyth is the current European time
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Associated Press Aug 12, 2024, 10:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTREAL — Alexei Popyrin of Australia, who turned pro in 2017, defeated fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev of Russia 6-2, 6-4 on Monday night to win the National Bank Open men’s singles title. Editor’s Picks The match took 90 minutes. Popyrin, who lost in the men’s
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BBC Sport 26 minutes ago Comments Formula 1 is taking its summer break, but our correspondent Andrew Benson is still answering your questions… Read on for Andrew’s answers about which F1 races might drop off the calendar and whether teams should sacrifice this year and 2025 to prepare for the new regulations in 2026. Is
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ESPN News Services Aug 13, 2024, 12:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions CHICAGO — Gavin Sheets matched a career high with four hits and drove in four runs, Korey Lee and Brooks Baldwin homered, and the Chicago White Sox gave interim manager Grady Sizemore his first win, pounding the New York Yankees 12-2 Monday night
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Associated Press Aug 12, 2024, 09:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TORONTO — Jessica Pegula, the No. 3 seed and the sixth-ranked WTA Tour player, defended her National Bank Open women’s singles title by defeating Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 in Monday’s all-American final. Pegula, from nearby Buffalo, New York, won last year’s National Bank
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ESPN News Services Aug 12, 2024, 10:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Star center Auston Matthews will be the Toronto Maple Leafs‘ next captain, according to multiple reports Monday. Toronto will make the official announcement in a news conference scheduled for Wednesday, per the reports. Matthews is replacing fellow center John Tavares as captain and
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Associated Press Aug 12, 2024, 08:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CINCINNATI — Nuno Borges and Magdalena Frech, the top men’s and women’s seeds in the Cincinnati Open, advanced with wins in the qualifying round Monday. Borges, from Portugal, beat Aleksandar Vukic of Australia 7-6 (4), 6-1, and Frech, from Poland, beat 14th-seeded Jéssica Bouzas
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Associated Press Aug 12, 2024, 09:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ANAHEIM, Calif. — Will Wagner was inserted into the Toronto Blue Jays lineup at second base and batting sixth for his major league debut Monday against the Los Angeles Angels. The son of former left-handed pitcher Billy Wagner, a seven-time All-Star and a member
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Brady Henderson, ESPNAug 12, 2024, 09:35 PM ET Close Brady Henderson is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Henderson covers the Seattle Seahawks. He joined ESPN in 2017 covering the team for Seattle Sports 710-AM. You can follow him via Twitter @BradyHenderson. Open Extended Reactions RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks are shooting to
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Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterAug 12, 2024, 09:41 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Open Extended Reactions The Miami Marlins, in the early stages of another rebuild, have made a deluge of firings under first-year
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