Leah Dixon thought her dream of competing with the world’s best would become a reality this year – instead she has come out on top in the new cycling world of virtual reality. The 28-year-old Welsh cyclist, riding for Team Tibco Silicon Valley Bank, won the first ever V-Women’s Tour by nearly 22 seconds on
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10:07 PM IST Cricket South Africa has come under severe criticism from the country’s minister of sport, art and culture Nathi Mthethwa who questioned the organisation’s commitment to transformation at a parliamentary briefing on Friday. Despite CSA exceeding their transformation targets on the field for the 2018-19 season, Mtethwa was concerned that several senior positions
3:39 PM ET Like so many high school seniors in 2020, Alison Harbaugh had her final spring sports season taken away by the coronavirus pandemic. Her parents, Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh and his wife, Ingrid, missed out on the milestone moment of watching their only child walk across the stage in a traditional graduation
10:12 PM IST Roston Chase has played as much of a part as any of his team-mates in West Indies’ recent improvements as a Test side. He has scored five hundreds since his debut in 2016, including a six-hour rearguard against India in his second Test, and another in his last encounter with England. Two
11:21 AM ET HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The PGA Tour announced Saturday that 11 people who were in contact with Nick Watney were administered initial COVID-19 tests and all the results came back negative after the golfer on Friday became the first player to test positive for the virus. The PGA Tour did not
12:53 AM ET Connor McDavid just made a retired carpenter from San Diego more than $100,000 richer. McDavid’s 2015-16 Upper Deck “The Cup” rookie patch autograph card sold for a final bid of $135,811.20 in the Lelands Spring Classic Auction on Friday. The sale price includes a 20% buyer’s fee that goes to the auction
Back in 2006, at the beginning of Chris Froome’s career, he came to a fork in the road on the Road World Championships time-trial course, seconds after he rolled off the ramp. Uncertain of which way to go, he hesitated and went straight on, piling into a race delegate. Both ended up in a heap
8:14 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 2004, Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 500th home run. It came on Father’s Day, with his father, Ken
4:02 PM IST Mashrafe Mortaza has tested positive for Covid-19 following tests last week. Mortaza, 36, is currently in the capital Dhaka. Mortaza has been quite active with humanitarian efforts during the pandemic, although it is not known how he contracted the virus. Covid-19 cases have crossed 100,000 in Bangladesh with the government now planning
5:45 PM ET Watford defender Adrian Mariappa has been through a lot in 2020. Remember Watford’s win over Liverpool on Feb. 29? That seems like a lifetime ago. Having tested positive for COVID-19 and seen the pandemic sweep the country, then the death of George Floyd in America and the anger and drive for change
11:02 PM ET ESPN News Services The NHL announced late Friday that 11 of the 200 players tested since training facilities were allowed to open on June 8 have tested positive for COVID-19. The league said the players, who weren’t named, are self-isolating. The Tampa Bay Lightning said Friday that three players and additional staffers
12:53 AM ET Connor McDavid just made a retired carpenter from San Diego over $100,000 richer. McDavid’s 2015-16 Upper Deck “The Cup” rookie patch autograph card sold for a final bid of $113,176 in the Lelands Spring Classic Auction on Friday. (The purchaser will pay a total of $135,811 due to a 20% buyer’s premium
1:42 AM ET Former Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell is finalizing a one-year contract with the Kiwoom Heroes of the KBO, a source familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Russell should soon be in South Korea. Russell, 26, became a free agent when the Cubs non-tendered him in December. He was suspended for
7:50 PM ET ESPN News Services HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Webb Simpson and Bryson DeChambeau were trading birdies with vastly different games, and Rory McIlroy ran off enough birdies to make the cut Friday at the RBC Heritage. Simpson got the last word, with a 6-foot birdie on his final hole at No. 9
3:47 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers chief executive officer and governor Jeanie Buss shared a photograph of a letter on her Instagram account Friday containing racial and misogynistic epithets “so that everyone can see the hate is real and living out there,” she wrote. The two-sentence letter, composed on a type writer, begins with “Dear
9:38 PM ET Next weekend’s UFC event has suffered a blow. Aspen Ladd, who was scheduled to fight Sara McMann on the June 27 card, has been forced to withdraw after suffering a torn ACL and MCL in training, her manager, Dave Hirschbein, said Friday. According to Hirschbein, Ladd will find out Tuesday whether she’ll
7:02 PM ET Clemson‘s football team now has 23 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since its return to campus two weeks ago, according to a source, after the school announced 28 new positive tests among student-athletes and staff on Friday. The school performed a total of 315 tests in the past week with 28 people testing
10:03 PM ET Former UFC title contender Anthony Smith will look to get back on track in August. Smith is slated to meet Aleksandar Rakic on Aug. 29, sources confirmed to ESPN following a report by MMAPlay365. The event, which has yet to be officially announced by the promotion, doesn’t have a finalized location. Smith