3:01 PM ET The Tampa Bay Rays placed two starting position players and one of their starting pitchers on the injured list Sunday. Shortstop Wander Franco (wrist), and center fielder Kevin Kiermaier (left hip inflammation) were placed on the 10-day injured list and left-hander Jeffrey Springs (tightness in his lower right leg) was put on
10:41 AM ET ESPN News Services Shingo Kunieda finally won his first Wimbledon title to complete a career Grand Slam in men’s wheelchair singles. The 38-year-old Japanese player defeated Alfie Hewett of Britain 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10-5). Kunieda is the first men’s wheelchair player to complete a career Grand Slam, and now holds all four
2:07 PM ET Associated Press EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — All-Star forward Adrian Kempe has agreed to a four-year, $22 million contract extension with the Los Angeles Kings. The club announced the deal Sunday with Kempe, who set career highs with 35 goals and 54 points last season while earning his first All-Star Game selection. Kempe
2:15 PM ET Iceland were left to rue a missed penalty in a 1-1 draw with Belgium in their women’s European Championship Group D match on Sunday after Berglind Thorvaldsdottir’s opener was cancelled out by Justine Vanhaevermaet. In front of just 3,859 fans at the Academy Stadium, Iceland had the opportunity to take the lead
2:25 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The Mets have placed catcher James McCann on the 10-day injured list on Sunday with a left oblique strain. The 32-year old was injured while reaching to apply a tag in the sixth inning of New York’s extra-inning victory over the Miami Marlins on Saturday. It is
12:49 PM ET LONDON — Novak Djokovic kept his cool in the furnace of Centre Court to win his seventh Wimbledon championship against Nick Kyrgios. As Kyrgios stuck the ball in the net on championship point, Djokovic looked to his team and let out a massive exhale. The triumph sees him go one behind Rafael
Luxembourg’s Bob Jungels claimed his first Tour de France stage win on stage nine on Sunday. The AG2R Citroen rider went solo off the penultimate categorised climb and stayed in front for the remaining 60km. He held off a late counter-attack from France’s Thibaut Pinot, who ended up finishing fourth behind Spaniards Jonathan Castroviejo and
11:31 AM ET Free-agent offensive tackle Duane Brown was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday for allegedly possessing a concealed weapon. Brown, a five-time Pro Bowl selection, posted $10,000 bond and was released from custody at 11:32 p.m. local time, according to an online record. He is due back at LAX Superior Court
10:21 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — The Russian Tennis Federation was quick to claim Elena Rybakina as “our product” on her run to the women’s title at Wimbledon. It then praised her training program in the country after she won the Venus Rosewater Dish as Wimbledon champion while representing Kazakhstan. “It’s the Russian school,
Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten has won her third Giro d’Italia Donne title after the final stage was claimed by Italy’s Chiara Consonni. Van Vleuten, 39, who rides for Movistar and was Giro champion in 2018 and 2019, won two stages in this year’s race. She finished one minute and 52 seconds ahead of Italy’s
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc passed title rival Max Verstappen three times on his way to a commanding victory in the Austrian Grand Prix. Carlos Sainz was on course to make it a Ferrari one-two before he suffered an engine failure with 14 laps to go – the latest in a series for Ferrari. Leclerc faced a
No team is ever going to get their use of reviews perfect, but sometimes you are left feeling some errors more than others. For Australia that most famously happened in the 2019 Ashes Test against England at Headingley when they wasted their final review, only to then see Ben Stokes given not out with two
5:00 AM ET Sid LoweSpain writer Andreas Christensen, left, was unveiled by Barcelona this week even though he’s not yet eligible to actually register as a LaLiga player. Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images Barcelona president Joan Laporta was back eating at his favourite restaurant on Thursday night, joined by Chelsea‘s new co-owner, Behdad Eghbali (the co-chairman of
6:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. RG III’s take: One of the NFL’s more compelling 2022 storylines will be how quarterback Mac Jones is affected by the Patriots’ new-look coaching staff. Bill Belichick hasn’t named a coordinator or playcaller to fill Josh McDaniels’
Lewis Hamilton has criticised spectators at the Austrian Grand Prix for cheering when he crashed in qualifying at the Red Bull Ring. Hamilton went off at Turn Seven, close to grandstands packed with Dutch fans of his 2021 title rival Max Verstappen. “I was going through a bunch of stuff in the crash, but to
11:00 PM BST England coach Eddie Jones has blasted the state of Test rugby, with the laws of the game again the major talking point after his side’s win over the Wallabies. Australian winger Izaia Perese and Jones’ playmaker Marcus Smith were both given 10-minute sin-bins for what were deemed deliberate knock downs when they
12:53 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAS VEGAS — Oklahoma City Thunder forward-center Chet Holmgren and Houston Rockets forward Jabari Smith Jr. didn’t put on much of an offensive display Saturday night, but both showed the all-around games that made them such attractive choices at the top of last month’s draft. In one of the most
LAS VEGAS — Set to play alongside Kawhi Leonard and Paul George next season, John Wall said he is delighted to be joining a loaded LA Clippers team that won’t need him to be “Batman every night for us to win.” In his first comments since officially signing a two-year, $13.2 million deal with LA,