Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas ended pre-season testing with fastest lap – both on Friday’s final day and overall. The Finn’s performance underlined impressions that the world champions are in strong shape ahead of the start of the new season in Australia next month. But rivals Ferrari and Red Bull both showed pace on the final
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Watch the terrifying moment Great Britain’s Laura Kenny crashes in the women’s omnium at the Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin The two-time Olympic omnium champion needed stitches but was cleared by British Cycling to continue in the event after a concussion check. Read More: Laura Kenny crashes in World Track Championships omnium Watch coverage
11:19 AM ET NORFOLK, Va. — The UFC was set to usher in a new era for its flyweight division in Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main event. Now only one of the participants is even eligible to win the title. Brazilian flyweight Deiveson Figueiredo (17-1) weighed in at 127.5 pounds on Friday, 2.5 pounds over
It’s that time of the year in the racing calendar when F1 fans get to see this year’s fresh batch of livery designs. We’ve rounded up each team’s new design here. In the meantime, over on that there internet, a creative community of designers, unbound by corporate briefs and stakeholder input, are playing about with
10:45 AM ET The New York Rangers famously sent their fans a letter two seasons ago, transparently laying out that the club was going to be going through some tough times in the short term, but that they’d return to being a top contender soon enough. Well, it appears the rebuild has gone quicker than
Feb 25, 2020 For many years, UFC flyweight Joseph Benavidez kept an old 4-inch-by-6-inch photograph of a UFC championship belt on his mantel. Keeping the spot warm until the real belt could take its place. But a few years ago, Benavidez and his wife moved to a new home in Las Vegas, and the photograph
9:05 AM ET Let’s move into the weekend with 10 NBA things: 1. Jayson Tatum is here When was the last time this happened — a player in the middle of the season making The Leap, everyone digesting the revelation together and knowing it is real and lasting? Perhaps Kawhi Leonard toward the start of
11:45 AM ET The narrative is spreading rapidly in the early days of spring training, told with a certain taste of glee. The Astros are getting hit by a lot of pitches! The cheaters are getting their comeuppance! They’re already being targeted and it’s not even the regular season! There are Twitter accounts with names
Deputy principal Claire Williams says her Formula 1 team’s struggles are “not because I have a child”. Nine-time constructors’ champions Williams endured their worst season in 2019, and have not won a race since 2012. Claire Williams, who has run the team since 2013, said it has been suggested to her that the issues coincided
11:16 AM GMT England 158 for 7 (Knight 62, Aiman Anwer 3-30) beat Pakistan 116 (Shrubsole 3-25, Glenn 3-15) by 42 runs England took a stride towards qualification from Group B of the Women’s T20 World Cup by thrashing Pakistan in Canberra. After surprisingly being inserted by Pakistan’s skipper Bismah Maroof, England overcame an early
2:24 AM ET Associated Press QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand — LPGA major winner Pernilla Lindberg of Sweden has missed the cut at the New Zealand Open after becoming the first woman to play in the 101-year-old men’s professional tournament. Lindberg shot 1-over 73 Friday to follow her first round 9-over-par 80, finishing in a tie for
2:48 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — The Los Angeles Lakers hardly ever practice, and shootarounds are even rarer for the veteran squad. So getting Markieff Morris, who signed with the team this week after receiving a buyout from the Detroit Pistons, up to speed takes some creativity. “We’ve kind of beefed up our film sessions,”
3:38 AM GMT Anil Kumble, one of the most prominent and influential voices in world cricket, is “very clear” that a Test match has to be five days long and hence he does not endorse the proposal to make four-day Test cricket mandatory. Kumble, who is the chairman of the ICC’s Cricket Committee, has also
10:09 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Alabama wide receiver Henry Ruggs III flashed rare speed at the NFL’s scouting combine Thursday night, but he didn’t quite get the record he had hoped for at Lucas Oil Stadium. Ruggs, considered one of the fastest players available in this year’s draft, said this week he wanted to set
10:56 PM ET ESPN News Services OTTAWA, Ontario — Bobby Ryan recorded a hat trick in his first home game in more than three months, leading the Ottawa Senators to a 5-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night. Ryan, who made his return Tuesday night at Nashville, entered the joint NHL/NHLPA assistance program
10:44 AM ET The National Hockey League is really good at fixing problems that neither need fixing nor are problems in the first place. “Problems” such as fans voting goons into the All-Star Game. Spin-o-ramas in the shootout. How players should or should not tuck in their jerseys. The conference playoff format. And now, if
9:25 PM ET Tito Ortiz‘s next fight appears to be against the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). The UFC Hall of Famer’s Dec. 7 win over former WWE champion Alberto “Del Rio” Rodriguez at Combate Americas 51 was overturned by the TDLR last month to a no contest (or no decision), and sources
7:00 AM ET The NHL trade deadline came and went, and we were treated to a flurry of moves of varying degrees of importance to the playoff races. For the most part, it was a pretty sensible deadline, in that the teams currently contending for playoff spots were the ones that generally added to their