8:50 AM ET The first Sunday of the NFL season was wild. The NFC’s worst team from 2019 won, while the defending NFC champs lost. The team everyone insisted was tanking for top 2021 quarterback prospect Trevor Lawrence won, in part because Philip Rivers threw an interception while his team was trailing late in the
Sep 11, 2020 NBA Insiders The 2020 NBA playoffs pick up again Tuesday with the Eastern Conference finals, featuring a thrilling matchup of two teams that pulled upsets in the previous round: the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat. (The East finals can be seen on ESPN and the ESPN App, including Game 1 on
7:15 AM ET KENNETH FERRIE WAS already cooked when he stood near Phil Mickelson on the 72nd tee of the United States Open. The Englishman could have slipped under the ropes inside Winged Foot, the Yankee Stadium of golf, and joined the thousands of New Yorkers cheering for their left-hander to close it out. Ferrie,
1:14 PM ET The Premier League is back! So is La Liga in Spain! And there were fireworks in France as Ligue 1 rivals clashed. It’s Monday, and Gab Marcotti reacts to the biggest moments in the sport of football from the past week. Jump to: Liverpool shouldn’t panic yet | Unpacking PSG-Marseille brawl |
10:35 PM IST Essex 197 for 5 (Lawrence 81) beat Sussex 185 for 8 (Thomason 47) by 12 runs Dan Lawrence‘s best outing of the summer inspired Essex to a tight 12-run victory at Hove, giving them their first T20 win of the season to take them off the foot of the South Group table.
Formula 1 bosses are looking into whether Lewis Hamilton broke rules at the Tuscan Grand Prix by wearing a T-shirt highlighting police brutality. A spokesman for the FIA said the matter was “under active consideration”. The T-shirt said: “Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor” – a black woman shot eight times in her Louisville,
Susie Wolff has memories of Lewis Hamilton that go back to a childhood spent racing karts against each other, an era of innocence in what she calls the purest form of racing where money and politics and gender played no part. “We’ve known each from the age of eight,” says Wolff. “We competed against each
7:00 AM ET First, a flashback to the most impressive throw I’ve ever seen in person. It came in a spring game — the 2009 Missouri spring game, to be exact. Blaine Gabbert, the home-state, five-star QB, was prepping to become the starter. On one play in the scrimmage, the sophomore-to-be rolled left, couldn’t find
4:02 PM ET Conor McGregor‘s representatives reacted angrily to a report that the UFC star has been arrested and accused of sexual assault while on a trip to Italy. On Saturday, the Agence France Press reported that a complaint was filed Thursday against McGregor in Corsica for alleged attempted sexual assault and sexual exhibitionism. The
Defending Tour de France champion Egan Bernal said he “felt empty” as he lost more than seven minutes to leader Primoz Roglic on Sunday’s Grand Colombier climb. The Ineos Grenadiers rider is all but out of contention for the win with a week of the race still to go. Roglic leads Tadej Pogacar by 40
Simon Yates held on for victory in the Tirreno-Adriatico after withstanding a challenge in Monday’s final stage from Geraint Thomas, who finished second. Mitchelton-Scott’s Yates started the individual time trial in Italy with a 39-second lead over his fellow Briton. Thomas clocked the fourth best time but his 22-second gain on Yates was only enough
7:00 AM ET The Dallas Stars are one win away from advancing to their first Stanley Cup Final since 2000. Eliminating the Vegas Golden Knights won’t be easy, as Vegas is claiming the Western Conference finals are “a long way from over.” Can Dallas close out the series on its first try? Meanwhile, the Tampa
5:18 PM ET Chicago Cubs righty Alec Mills threw the league’s second no-hitter of the season on Sunday, shutting down the Milwaukee Brewers in a 12-0 victory. Mills, 28, struck out five while walking three. Asked in the postgame interview on the Marquee Sports Network how he felt, Mills responded: “I have no idea. It
5:24 AM BST Ian Foster could be without several key playmakers for the Rugby Championship with a number of All Blacks reportedly telling NZ Rugby they do not want to be away from their young families for an extended period. A RNZ.co.nz report on Monday suggested each of Beauden Barrett, Richie Mo’unga and TJ Perenara
7:15 PM ET Danny Lewis The coronavirus pandemic has made the transfer market uncertain — and you can find out when the windows open and close here — but here are the rumours floating around Europe’s big leagues and beyond. Plus, check out all the latest major completed transfers across Europe. Perisic among Man United’s
Tom Cooper played a big part in the Melbourne Renegades’ 2018-19 win © Getty Images Tom Cooper has become the Brisbane Heat’s first new signing for the coming summer after agreeing a deal for the next two Big Bash Leagues. His coach at the Heat, Darren Lehmann, welcomed the update, lauding the experienced batsman as
1:35 AM BST Wallabies coach Dave Rennie is itching to get back on the grass. Or at least to feel it under his feet again, having finally put 44 names on paper for a two-game Bledisloe Cup battle across the ditch and then six straight Rugby Championship Tests, all amid the quarantine requirements in both
11:35 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com US Open runner-up Alexander Zverev on Sunday revealed his parents tested positive for COVID-19 and couldn’t be with him during his extended stay in the tournament. During his postmatch speech Sunday — after the 23-year old German lost to Dominic Thiem 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (6) — Zverev was