4:37 PM ET Jeff Carlisle Close U.S. soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Austin Lindberg Behind a defense putting up numbers not seen in MLS for a decade, Columbus is cementing itself as a true title contender and tops this week’s edition of Power Rankings. At the
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2:53 PM ET Associated Press Serena Williams is into the quarterfinals at the US Open for a 12th consecutive appearance. It wasn’t easy, though. Williams needed to come from behind in the third set before taking another step closer to Grand Slam title No. 24 by edging Maria Sakkari 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3 on Monday.
3:27 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — Alvin Kamara mostly sidestepped questions about his contract talks with the New Orleans Saints on Monday, insisting that his focus is on Sunday’s season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But Kamara did counter the narrative that he was holding out from Saints practices during a recent four-day stretch,
5:44 PM ET One of the best featherweight fighters in MMA over the past decade is calling it a career. Ricardo Lamas, 38, announced Monday on MMA Junkie Radio that he is retiring from mixed martial arts after 12 years as a pro. The former UFC title challenger said after his unanimous-decision win over Bill
2:33 PM ET Oregon offensive tackle Penei Sewell, the 2019 Outland Trophy winner, will opt out of the 2020-21 college football season and prepare for the NFL draft, he announced Monday. Sewell is ranked as the No. 2 overall prospect in the country by ESPN NFL draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr., behind Clemson quarterback Trevor
7:00 AM ET Despite being one of the NHL’s most fearsome juggernauts of the past several years, the Tampa Bay Lightning have been to only one Stanley Cup Final in the past 10 (2015). They’re hoping the tweaks made after last year’s debacle against the Columbus Blue Jackets can push them over the top. Meanwhile,
5:31 PM ET UFC welterweight Leon Edwards has had an even more frustrating 2020 than some of his peers, but says he is still “100%” committed to taking a fight this year. Edwards (18-3), of England, was supposed to headline UFC Fight Night opposite former champion Tyron Woodley in March, inside London’s 02 Arena. The
7:15 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — How in the world did Carson Wentz, the newly anointed franchise quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles in 2016, wind up trapped inside a gas station bathroom, anyway? Wentz began cracking up when that memory was raised before practice last week — far enough back in time now that it’s just
1:34 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket Ireland has cancelled an interprovincial T20 scheduled for Wednesday because of concerns about a possible Covid-19 “chain of transmission” to the Bob Willis Trophy match between Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire that was abandoned at the weekend. The T20 between Munster Reds and Northern Knights was due to take place in
Britons Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas safely navigated stage one of the Tirreno-Adriatico, which was won by German Pascal Ackermann in Italy. Bora-Hansgrohe rider Ackermann edged out UAE-Team Emirates’ Fernando Gaviria in a bunch sprint in Lido di Camaiore. Four-time Tour de France winner Froome and 2018 champion Thomas were left out of Team Ineos
2:33 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN There’s currently no update on the status of reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo for Game 5 after he reinjured his sprained right ankle in the first half of Game 4, but he certainly will try to suit up — if possible. The Milwaukee Bucks now trail 3-1 to the Miami Heat
9:07 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Victoria Azarenka hadn’t won a match in more than a year before she came to New York. Tsvetana Pironkova hadn’t played in a tournament since 2017. Now both are perhaps the unlikeliest players in the fourth round at the US Open. 1 Related They have made incredible comebacks, and what
7:54 AM ET James OlleySenior Writer, ESPN FC Close Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood have been dropped from the England squad after breaching quarantine rules by inviting girls to the team hotel in Iceland. Foden, 18, and Greenwood, 20, made their senior international debuts in Saturday’s
Formula 1 will revive plans to introduce reverse-grid sprint races in place of qualifying. Mercedes blocked plans to trial the idea this season – but Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix has given F1 fresh impetus. Two safety cars, a penalty for Lewis Hamilton and a race stoppage at Monza mixed up the field and led to
11:01 AM ET Is Nick Diaz ready to return to the Octagon for his first UFC fight in over five years? His manager told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani that Diaz is “100 percent” committed to fighting again, and the plan is for an early 2021 return. The manager, Kevin Mubenga, even provided a video of a
8:39 PM IST Big Picture Blink and you miss it in the frantic world of T20. Opportunity has knocked twice for Australia in this series – with a thumping great battering ram in the series opener on Friday, and with a polite rap of enquiry in the closing moments two days later. And twice England
For a much-delayed Tour de France that offered a few fans, as little coronavirus as possible and none of the famous British riders who have won it recently, the first week of this three-week adventure had a familiar feel. A British bloke in yellow. “He had some kind of parasite – he was on the
6:56 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — For many reasons — primarily the loss of NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard in free agency — the Toronto Raptors entered the 2019-20 season as the least-heralded league champion since the 2011 Dallas Mavericks. Bookmakers in Las Vegas set the line for Raptors wins at