Team Sunweb’s Soren Kragh Andersen took a surprise win on stage 14 of the Tour de France with a late solo attack as Primoz Roglic maintained his lead in the yellow jersey. Andersen sprung his attack with three kilometres to go, opening up a 15-second gap to take his first stage win. Luka Mezgec was
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12:32 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After playing five matches in seven days, Victoria Azarenka was ready for one more. It was her first singles final in almost 18 months, and she was looking for her biggest title since 2016. The 31-year-old had been victorious against several notable opponents on her path to the championship match,
10:00 AM ET We want our fantasy football and we want our fantasy, period. We need the fun-and-games escape from all of America’s problems. And our blessed medicine, our respite from months of sea-to-shining-sea sickness, arrives this weekend in an avalanche of wonderful football, God bless America. But as our country’s history records the victims
Defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten won stage two of the Giro Rosa to take the leader’s jersey. The Dutch road race world champion, 37, won by more than a minute ahead of Boels-Dolmans’ Anna van der Breggen and Canyon-SRAM’s Katarzyna Niewiadoma. Mitchelton-Scott rider Van Vleuten was leading when she suffered a mechanical. But she worked
Mitchelton-Scott’s British rider Simon Yates remained in the Tirreno-Adriatico lead after stage six, which was won in a sprint finish by Belgian Tim Merlier of Alpecin-Fenix. Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas stayed third overall as he and Yates finished in the leading pack. Rafal Majka of Bora-Hansgrohe, remained second, 23 seconds ahead of Welshman Thomas. Michael
Lewis Hamilton took his seventh pole position in nine races this season at the first Tuscan Grand Prix. The world champion beat Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas by just 0.059 seconds on Formula 1’s first competitive experience of the spectacular Mugello circuit. Red Bull locked out the second row, Max Verstappen ahead of Alex Albon. And
7:39 AM ET Slashes, fights, and goals galore. The Eastern Conference finals are just starting to heat up. Meanwhile, the Dallas Stars can put everyone on watch tonight, with the opportunity to go up 3-1 on the favored Vegas Golden Knights. Check out ESPN NHL Playoffs Today every day of the postseason until the Stanley
8:26 AM ET NEW YORK — This time, the man on the other side of the net from Dominic Thiem in a Grand Slam final won’t be Rafael Nadal, greatest clay court player of all time, on the red dirt in the stade Roland Garros. This time, Thiem will not be facing Novak Djokovic, who
6:15 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Kolkata Knight Riders have roped in USA’s 29-year-old fast bowler Ali Khan as a replacement for the English seamer Harry Gurney. Gurney is scheduled to have surgery related to a shoulder injury, and has pulled out of both the IPL and England’s Vitality Blast last month. Khan’s signing will make
11:54 PM ET There are few people in the NBA who dislike each other more than Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge and Miami Heat president Pat Riley — and it has been this way going on four decades. They hated each other in the 1980s, when Ainge was a guard for the Celtics in the
1:12 AM ET Phil Davis defeated Lyoto Machida in a light heavyweight rematch via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) on Friday night in the main event of Bellator 245 at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun. The victory put Davis on the short list of potential first title defenses for new Bellator 205-pound champion Vadim Nemkov. The most
5:38 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — The numbers suggested a stress-free time in the desert for Nelly Korda, who had five birdies and a clean card for a 5-under 67 to build an early two-shot lead Friday in the ANA Inspiration. All she could think about were two pars. The only fairway
2:07 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — John Harbaugh noticed someone had placed a face shield in his office this week, and the Baltimore Ravens coach thought about using it for Sunday’s season opener because his glasses fog up in the humid weather. “I dismissed that after last night,” Harbaugh said with a smile after
9:48 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Justin Allgaier gave up the lead, bided his time and then took it back. Allgaier caught front-running Justin Haley with 29 laps to go Friday night and held him off the rest of the way to win the NASCAR Xfinity race at Richmond Raceway, giving him his
10:45 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball’s postseason plan is nearly set, with the approval of the MLB Players Association all that’s left standing between baseball and a bubble, sources told ESPN. While questions about when
2:17 PM ET Graham HaysESPN.com Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. United States women’s national team and Orlando Pride forward Alex Morgan will join Tottenham Hotspur, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN. The Athletic first reported Morgan’s impending move to the London club. –
5:17 PM ET Memphis has paused football activities, and its game next week against Houston is in jeopardy after a “significant number of individuals inside the program were placed into quarantine, the school announced Friday. The school did not specify how many positive coronavirus tests it has inside the program, saying only “a number of
9:41 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — Friday night’s game between the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres was postponed minutes before the scheduled first pitch due to a positive COVID-19 test in the Giants organization, MLB announced. Both teams lined up for a moment of silence for the victims of the