2:10 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens With additional reporting by Rodrigo Faez BARCELONA, Spain — Ronald Koeman’s first act as Barcelona coach was a working lunch with his new bosses on Wednesday. He dined with president Josep Maria Bartomeu, sporting director Ramon Planes and director Javier Bordas at La Venta in the swanky St.
4:52 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Next month’s Kentucky Derby will run without fans at Churchill Downs. The historic track cited rises in COVID-19 cases in the Louisville area. It will mark the second Triple Crown race this year without spectators, following the Belmont Stakes in June. The Derby and Kentucky Oaks for
7:40 PM ET Associated Press DOVER, Del. — Zane Smith won the NASCAR Truck Series race at Dover International Speedway on Friday night. Smith pulled away in the No. 21 Chevrolet on a late restart to win for the second time in three races. The 21-year-old Smith won at Michigan to earn one of the
9:07 PM ET Washington coach Ron Rivera has been diagnosed with cancer but plans to continue coaching, he told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday night. Rivera told Schefter he was diagnosed with lymph node cancer. The team later said that he has squamous cell cancer of the neck. Rivera said the cancer is in the
6:34 PM ET Associated Press The Arizona Coyotes have laid off and furloughed staff because of financial issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The NHL team did not specify how many staff members nor which departments were affected. “These are incredibly challenging times for everyone and we’ve had to make some extremely difficult decisions,” the
5:38 PM ET NEW YORK — A number of players including top-ranked Novak Djokovic and multiple Grand Slam champion Andy Murray are criticizing the USTA for having removed Guido Pella and Hugo Dellien from the Western & Southern Open a few days ago after their fitness trainer, Juan Manuel Galvan, had tested positive for the
5:52 PM ET For the third time in the last four years, UFC dual-weight champion Amanda Nunes will defend one of her titles in December. Nunes (20-4) will face featherweight contender Megan Anderson (10-4) on Dec. 12 at a location to be determined, per multiple sources. The 145-pound contest will take place on a pay-per-view
8:35 AM ET It took more than 13 years, but Frankie Edgar has finally lost his battle with the people who want him to cut weight. My opinion: No one has fought the good fight against weight cutting as much (or as well) as Edgar. In a sport in which the majority of athletes cut
3:11 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Kei Nishikori, the 2014 US Open runner-up, said Friday he tested positive for COVID-19 a second time. Nishikori wrote on his mobile app that he will take another test next week, “at which time we will update you with more information.” “I have very minimal symptoms and
1:25 PM ET LeBron James fired back at a digital ad campaign for misconstruing one of his tweets about voter suppression, writing on Twitter Friday: “Nobody should be able to use my name (or anyone else name) to lie and deceive about the election.” James was addressing a story in the Washington Post about a
1:58 PM ET Associated Press NORTON, Mass. — Scottie Scheffler is making quite an impression in his PGA Tour postseason debut, posting a 12-under 59 on Friday at the Northern Trust for the 12th sub-60 round in tour history. Eleven players have shot a sub-60 round, with Jim Furyk accomplishing the feat twice. Scheffler, a
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1:32 PM ET Serena Williams said she enjoys being at the National Tennis Center, but she is living in a rented house in order to insulate herself even further from exposure to the coronavirus because of her history of significant lung complications. “I want to be here, but I have genuine health issues,” Williams said
1:57 AM BST Crusaders coach Scott Robertson said he has asked about joining the coaching staff of fellow New Zealander Warren Gatland when he leads the British & Irish Lions tour of South Africa next year. Robertson, who missed out on the All Blacks coaching job last year, said a role on the Lions tour
12:42 AM IST Danyal Rasool Spin bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed admitted Pakistan had found bowling in “tough conditions” hard work on the first day of the third Test, but maintained levelling the series remained within their grasp. On a day dominated by an unbroken 211-run partnership between Zak Crawley – who scored his maiden Test
Britain’s Mark Cavendish has been left out of Bahrain McLaren’s Tour de France squad. It is the second year in a row the 35-year-old has missed the Tour, having not been selected by previous team Dimension Data in 2019. The sprinter has won 30 Tour stages, four short of Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 victories.
7:00 AM ET This will be the most unpredictable trade deadline we’ve ever seen. My colleague Brad Doolittle just did a great job outlining the issues teams face this deadline, along with a position-by-position look at who might be available and which teams have holes to fill. One big factor aside from the cash-flow problems
12:17 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Four-time Grand Slam champion Kim Clijsters withdrew from the Western & Southern Open on Friday because of an abdominal injury that she wants to rest before the US Open. The 37-year-old Belgian already is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and came out of