Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will receive a grid penalty at this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. He will have at least a 10-place drop as a result of his retirement from the season-opening race in Bahrain. Team principal Frederic Vasseur said on Wednesday that Leclerc’s car had two problems with the electronics control unit (ECU) on
Britain’s Tom Pidcock will miss the Milan-San Remo race on Saturday with concussion. The Ineos Grenadiers rider, who won the Strade Bianche classic earlier this month, crashed out of Sunday’s final stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico. “This is obviously disappointing for both Tom and team,” said deputy team principal Rod Ellingworth. “We saw at Strade Bianche
1:18 PM ET Kyle SoppeESPN A little bit of an introduction. I’m a researcher in ESPN’s Fantasy department and I’ve developed a formula, abbreviated here as SOP, as a way to help make filling out the bracket a little less stressful. This formula is inherently simple: Measure and weigh appropriately the handful of stats over
8:00 AM ET ESPN Sports Betting The 2023 NCAA Tournament bracket was released on Sunday, with 68 on the nation’s best teams set to battle for a trip to Houston and the Final Four and National Championship. March Madness also represents one of the biggest betting seasons on the calendar as nearly $15.5 billion will
8:08 AM ET Rickie Fowler is set to become the latest golfer to join TGL, the tech-infused golf league being fronted by Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Fowler, who is ranked 59th in the Official World Golf Ranking, becomes the 12th player to commit to joining the league, which is
The Austrian Grand Prix will be on the Formula 1 calendar until at least 2027 after circuit owners Red Bull signed a new four-year contract with the sport. Austria is one of a core of historic European circuits that have become fixtures on the calendar as F1 seeks to expand globally. This year, it will
8:05 AM ET Associated Press MONACO — Rafael Nadal is aiming to make his comeback from a hip injury at the clay-court Monte Carlo Masters next month, organizers said Wednesday. The 22-time Grand Slam champion has been sidelined with a left hip flexor injury since the Australian Open and pulled out of hard-court tournaments at
7:49 AM ET ESPN News Services Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman suffered a minor hamstring injury Tuesday while playing for Canada in the World Baseball Classic. Freeman left the game against Colombia in the fourth inning after feeling tightness in his hamstring during an at-bat in the previous inning. Canada manager said Freeman’s
8:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors College football‘s 2023 recruiting cycle has come and gone, with Alabama signing the No. 1 class for the eighth time in the Nick Saban era. The Crimson Tide locked up the No. 1-ranked prospect at four different positions, and while quarterback was not one of those, they might have brought
Mar 14, 2023 You might have noticed the Washington Capitals–New York Rangers game looked a little different. Was that Cricket Green playing for the Rangers? Editor’s Picks 2 Related Tuesday’s game was a first-of-its-kind production: A live hockey game rendered into an animated series in real-time and virtually recreated the action on the ice at
7:00 AM ET PHOENIX — Just over five months since he made his first MLB postseason appearance with the New York Mets, Pete Alonso was gearing up for another pressure-filled stretch of baseball — this time, for Team USA. “My first playoff experience was this past season,” Alonso told the gathered crowd at World Baseball
7:35 AM ET It’s crunch time in the NBA regular season, as players on contenders fight through late-season fatigue to put their teams in the best position possible for the playoffs. The Eastern Conference is currently a three-team race at the top between the Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers, with the young postseason
7:00 AM ET In the Boston Red Sox‘s clubhouse at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida, the gravitational pull emanates from the corner locker. While most players get one locker to store their equipment, this one is super-sized, with an extra cabinet and a bench. The space, next to the door nearest the field, is
7:00 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The first link in Lamar Jackson‘s social media bios is an email address for “business inquiries.” It has been there for years, but at 4 p.m. ET Wednesday, the inquiries into Jackson’s business will take an intriguing turn. That’s when the Baltimore Ravens quarterback can start negotiating with
7:25 AM ET AS THE LA CLIPPERS‘ charter plane took off from the Los Angeles International Airport runway on a cloudy afternoon on Feb. 25, several players were napping when the Denver-bound flight took a sudden veer toward the left seconds into the air just above the Pacific Ocean. The Clippers’ plane began to shake
Capitals vs Giants – teams with contrasting runs face off Gujarat Giants have tried shuffling their openers around. They have chopped and changed their overseas players. And now they have returned to their original combination. What hasn’t changed is the brittleness of their batting line-up and poor death bowling. So there might be changes again.
1:18 AM ET DAYTON, Ohio — Pitt forward Guillermo Diaz Graham was physically and emotionally spent, as he fell into the embrace of his twin brother, Jorge, near midcourt at UD Arena on Tuesday night. The Pitt freshman had logged a season-high 37 minutes in place of injured starter Federiko Federiko. Guillermo was overmatched for
12:55 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — After a massive performance in a must-have 123-108 win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday, Los Angeles Lakers star big man Anthony Davis will sit out Wednesday’s game against the Houston Rockets, according to coach Darvin Ham. “He’s not going to play,” Ham said after Davis put up