9:45 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders After a double-dip of racing that saw Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick come away with victories last weekend in Dover, the NASCAR Cup Series heads back to Daytona for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET). It’s the final race before the playoffs. Who will take
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was fastest in second practice at the Belgian Grand Prix, with Daniel Ricciardo’s Renault also ahead of the Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton was third fastest as the top three were separated by only 0.096 seconds. Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas was down in sixth, behind Red Bull’s Alexander Albon and Racing Point’s Sergio Perez.
Defending champion Egan Bernal says pain from a back injury is bothering him on the eve of the Tour de France. However, the Colombian was forced to withdraw early from the Criterium du Dauphine on 15 August with a bad back. “I hope during the Tour to be working hard and trying to recover, especially
8:23 AM ET Steve KimESPN Three televised shows, highlighted by unified junior welterweight titlist Jose Ramirez taking on Viktor Postol, will take place on Saturday — and all three main events carry title implications. First scheduled for China on Feb. 1, then in Fresno, California, on May 9, Ramirez-Postol will finally take place at the
8:57 AM ET Justin Walters leads the UK Championship with a three-shot lead after bad weather affected the opening day of the tournament. Play was halted for over four hours at the Belfry after heavy rain caused flooding on parts of the course. 1 Related South Africa’s Walters still managed to card a bogey-free 64
8:36 AM ET The Baltimore Ravens have canceled practice Friday morning and will instead hold a “team unifying session surrounding social justice reform,” according to the team. The Ravens’ cancellation follows nine NFL teams not practicing Thursday in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. Baltimore practiced Thursday but had planned to
5:41 PM IST At least ten members of the Chennai Super Kings contingent, including an India player, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Dubai. ESPNcricinfo understands that the positive results came after the Super Kings squad and support staff were tested on Thursday at their team hotel. As per the IPL’s Covid-19 protocols, all teams
Formula 1 is to use a brand new layout of Bahrain’s Sakhir track for the second race to be held in the Gulf state this year. The first will be held on the usual Grand Prix circuit, while the second will be on what is known as Sakhir’s “Outer Circuit”. This shortens the track to
7:12 AM ET Anthony Smith is one of the toughest fighters in the UFC, all right? Everyone knows it and, frankly, loves him for it. This is the guy who could have called it quits in a UFC title fight against Jon Jones last year — after Jones blasted him with an illegal knee in
7:24 AM ET NBA Insiders NBA players spent the past week publicly and privately grappling with the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before refusing to play in games Wednesday, setting off protests by athletes across American sports. What does this historic week mean for the NBA and other leagues? What were
“Nobody knows” if the Tour de France will reach the finish on 20 September following an increase in coronavirus cases in the country, says Ineos Grenadiers boss Sir Dave Brailsford. The three-week race, originally set to start on 27 June, gets under way on Saturday in Nice – one of 19 new regions to be
4:42 AM ET Welcome to ESPN’s Insider Notebook, featuring contributions from our reporters across the top leagues around the world. In this edition, there’s reaction from Barcelona’s bitter rivals on Lionel Messi’s shock news. Plus: Sadio Mane could have joined Manchester United … but for Louis van Gaal. Jump to: Mane rejected United over LVG
Valtteri Bottas headed Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes one-two ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in first practice at the Belgian Grand Prix. The usual top three in F1 2020 were separated by tiny fractions – Bottas was 0.069 seconds ahead of Hamilton, who had 0.012secs on Verstappen. Racing Point’s Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll
Sport just isn’t the same without fans. Even the Champions League final didn’t seem to matter as much. A lack of occasion repeated across all major stadia, racing circuits and golf courses this summer. So the delayed Tour de France this year has an important role to play. Following the inevitable postponement from its original
1:37 AM ET ESPN News Services Bubba Wallace, the lone Black driver competing full time in NASCAR at the national series level, took to Twitter on Thursday night to say that the sport’s drivers remain committed to fighting racial inequality, even though they’ll be racing Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway. Teams from the NBA,
9:42 AM IST Australia will implement stricter protocols around the use of sweat to shine the ball during their England tour than has so far been seen during international cricket’s return. Early in the pandemic the ICC ruled that no saliva would be allowed to be used to shine the ball but that sweat was
9:50 PM ET While a fight with Georges St-Pierre has long been on UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov‘s MMA bucket list, St-Pierre said Thursday that the chances of him returning to the Octagon are “incredibly low.” “It takes three parties to make a fight,” St-Pierre, who officially announced his retirement from the UFC in February
8:50 PM ET OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — There was not a lot of talk publicly from players — including Tiger Woods — about possibly skipping the first round of the BMW Championship on Thursday, potentially joining others in the sports world who are not playing games this week as a form of protest of racial