7:44 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Rafael Nadal became the second player in ATP Tour history to start a season 18-0, edging Reilly Opelka 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5) on Wednesday in the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open. Only Novak Djokovic has gotten off to better starts since 1990. The Serb
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Australian cricketers clap as Babar Azam walks back to the pavilion.© AFP The second Test between Australia and Pakistan ended in an enthralling draw on Wednesday but the spotlight was well and truly on Babar Azam as he registered the highest score by a captain in the fourth innings of a Test. Azam’s 196-run knock
9:53 PM ET The next UFC women’s strawweight title fight will be the same as the inaugural one. Rose Namajunas will defend her belt against Carla Esparza in the co-main event of UFC 274 on May 7 in Phoenix, UFC chief business officer Hunter Campbell confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Esparza beat Namajunas via third-round
9:11 PM ET Ulysses Bentley IV, who led the American Athletic Conference in rushing in 2020 and started 14 games at SMU during the past two seasons, announced on Wednesday he is transferring to Ole Miss after entering the portal. On Monday, first-year Mustangs coach Rhett Lashlee told ESPN that he met with Bentley on
6:00 PM ET Former NFL standout Greg Hardy fought out his UFC contract earlier this month, and now his departure from the promotion is official. UFC officials confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday that Hardy has been removed from the promotion’s internal roster, an indication that he is unlikely to be re-signed. Hardy, a former NFL
7:08 PM ET Momentum is a vital ingredient for any team chasing a league title and Liverpool are over-flowing with it right now. Manchester City don’t have it and that’s why, after Liverpool’s 2-0 victory at Arsenal, Pep Guardiola’s Premier League champions will be worrying that they may be about to finish second in what
Last updated on 1 hour ago1 hour ago.From the section Formula 1 World champion Max Verstappen says F1 “does not need to heal” after last year’s controversial title decider. But the 24-year-old said there needs to be more teams fighting at the front. The Red Bull driver took the drivers’ title following a decision by
8:48 AM ET A consortium led by Chicago Cubs owner Thomas Ricketts will submit a formal offer for Chelsea, a spokesman has confirmed. The deadline for bids was pushed back three days to Friday due to the uncertainty caused by last week’s announcement that the U.K government was sanctioning Blues owner Roman Abramovich as one
2:31 PM ET The Las Vegas Raiders have reached agreement on a contract with four-time Pro Bowl pass-rusher Chandler Jones and are trading veteran defensive end Yannick Ngakoue to the Indianapolis Colts, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The Colts are trading cornerback Rock Ya-Sin to Las Vegas in exchange for Ngakoue, according to sources. Ngakoue
1:54 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — The party planned for Claude Giroux‘s 1,000th game with the Philadelphia Flyers seems appropriately lavish for a team captain who has spent his entire career with the franchise. The Flyers will celebrate Giroux and his family before Thursday night’s game and have invited special guests of honor. Giroux
1:15 PM ET The Oconee County (Georgia) Sheriff’s Office announced on Wednesday that former University of Georgia football player Akhil Crumpton was arrested in connection to the murder of 23-year-old gas station clerk Elijah Wood last year. Wood was shot and killed at approximately 1:30 a.m. on March 19, 2021, by an armed assailant who
12:49 PM ET The Saudi Arabian-financed breakaway golf league isn’t going away. LIV Golf Investments on Wednesday announced an eight-event series that will start in London in June and will feature four tournaments played in the United States. The LIV Golf Invitational Series will include seven-regular season events and a team championship match-play finale at
1:20 PM ET Sometimes the measure of a move is almost as much about the size of the hole you’ve filled as it is the person you’ve chosen to fill it. So it is for the Philadelphia Phillies, who on Wednesday morning agreed to a reported four-year, $79 million deal with free-agent slugger Kyle Schwarber.
9:00 AM ET Tom Aspinall is a young star in the making in the UFC’s heavyweight division. At age 28, he is 4-0 in the Octagon, 11-2 overall in his MMA career. On Saturday, the fighter from Manchester, England, who now fights out of Liverpool, will be competing on home turf when he headlines UFC
After last season’s controversial end to the Formula 1 season it all starts again at the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend. Both Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen went into the final race of an epic 2021 season locked together on 369.5 points – only the second time this has happened since F1’s
11:53 AM BST Leicester Tigers have been fined £310,000 for non-compliance with salary cap regulations from 2016-17 to 2019-2020, Premiership Rugby said on Tuesday. Following an investigation into potential salary cap breaches over five seasons from 2016 to 2021, Premiership leaders Leicester were penalised for undisclosed payments to players from a third-party company via image
Pakistan captain Babar Azam has rated his 196 in the second Test against Australia as “one of his best innings” which has helped his team draw the game from a precarious position. Pakistan in pursuit of a huge target of 506, ended on 443 for 7 with hundreds from Babar and Mohammed Rizwan. “I think credit goes to the
Mark Cavendish sprinted to victory to become the first Briton to win the Milano-Torino. Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl Team rider Cavendish rode to the front of the pack in the final hundred metres at the end of a largely flat 199km race. The 36-year-old becomes the oldest winner of the oldest race on the international calendar,