Red Bull have requested a review of the penalty awarded to Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton after his first-lap collision with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at the British Grand Prix. Hamilton was ruled to have been “predominantly to blame” for the crash. which resulted in Verstappen being taken to hospital. Hamilton was given a 10-second penalty but
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ENG vs IND: Virat Kohli trains during a practice session at Durham.© Twitter With Team India set to face England in a five-match Test series, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) took to social media to post some photos from “centre wicket training” in Durham. The series between the sides begins from
9:00 AM ET Miye Oni’s favourite Nigerian food is pounded yam with egusi soup served with oxtail. That is as Nigerian a dish as you are likely to get, especially the oxtail part. It is a dish that can be found in classy restaurants and run-down bucks alike, and is a staple in most Nigerian
Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has launched a charitable foundation and pledged £20m to “support, champion and empower young people from under-represented groups in the UK”. Hamilton, 36, has won the F1 title on seven occasions but is the only black driver in the sport. He hopes the launch of Mission 44 will help
2:15 AM ET Shohei Ohtani‘s 99th pitch in Monday night’s win against the Colorado Rockies was clocked at 100 mph. It ended the top of the seventh inning and registered as his 100th strikeout of 2021, a year when he has also accumulated a major league-leading 35 home runs before the end of July. No
6:56 AM ET HOUSTON — As the Houston Texans prepare to take the field at training camp Wednesday, don’t expect to see Deshaun Watson, even though the quarterback reported to the facility on Sunday morning. Although Watson is on the team’s roster, he’s facing 22 civil lawsuits with allegations of sexual assault and inappropriate behavior.
8:11 AM ET Welterweight champion Terence Crawford was hoping for a unification bout against Errol Spence Jr., or a superfight against the legendary Manny Pacquiao. But with Spence and Pacquiao already set to face off on Aug. 21, it seems Crawford could be facing Shawn Porter next, after the WBO ordered that title defense. Is
7:00 AM ET The Olympics have always had a love-hate relationship with baseball. In the early decades of the games, host cities organized various exhibitions, including a contest in 1956 in Melbourne that drew 114,000 spectators, but it wasn’t until 1984 in Los Angeles that we saw the first Olympic baseball tournament, although it wasn’t
7:00 AM ET The NHL free-agent market officially opens on Wednesday — you can catch our simulcast of TSN’s “Free Agent Frenzy” coverage beginning at 11 a.m. ET on ESPN+ — as teams scramble to sign players who can be everything from the last pieces of a championship puzzle to the spackle around the holes
7:00 AM ET After 16 months of uncertainty, the hockey world is beginning to return to some sense of normalcy as the free-agent market ahead of the 2021-22 NHL season is set to open on Wednesday, July 28. Of course, there’s been nothing too normal about this summer thus far: In an effort to get
6:19 AM ET Golf is back in the Olympics for the second time after a 112-year absence, following a successful return in Brazil in 2016, when England’s Justin Rose captured the gold medal. Rose held off Sweden’s — and then-reigning Open champion — Henrik Stenson. American Matt Kuchar finished third to win the bronze. None
5:17 AM BST New Zealand said on Tuesday that the Wallabies have been granted an exemption to enter the country to play next month’s Bledisloe Cup. Travel between Australia and New Zealand was suspended last week following the worsening of a coronavirus outbreak in Australia, putting the Bledisloe Cup and Rugby Championship in doubt. The
10:55 AM BST Australia will play Olympic champions in a daunting men’s rugby sevens quarter-final task after the Samu Kerevi-inspired side showed vast improvement in a 14-12 loss to New Zealand. The result left Australia third in their pool, scraping into medal contention as one of two lucky losers in Tokyo thanks to a face-saving
5:13 AM ET Adriana Garcia Raphael Varane trained with some of his Real Madrid teammates on Monday morning amid speculation his transfer to Manchester United could be completed this week. Reports in Spain claim that United have started negotiating with Madrid regarding Varane’s transfer to Old Trafford. – Don’t have ESPN? Get instant access Varane,
2:45 AM ET She lit the fire to start the Olympics, but Naomi Osaka‘s Tokyo 2020 dreams were extinguished far too soon on Tuesday in just over an hour by Marketa Vondrousova. With a flurry of unforced errors and growing frustration, Osaka’s Olympics ended with a 6-1, 6-4 loss to Vondrousova, ranked No. 42 in
1:07 AM ET ESPN News Services TOKYO — It wasn’t the ending that tennis superstar Naomi Osaka — nor her fans across Japan and worldwide — had expected for the Tokyo Olympics. Osaka lost to former French Open finalist Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-4 in the third round of the Olympic tennis
10:24 PM ET The Washington Capitals traded defenseman Brenden Dillon to the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night, in an attempt to alleviate both their salary cap crunch and their logjam on defense. The Jets traded a second-round pick in both 2022 and 2023 for the defenseman, who is entering his 11th NHL season and has
10:30 PM ET Another night, another full slate of surprises and triumphs at the Tokyo Olympics. The biggest stunner came in tennis, where Japan’s Naomi Osaka — who lit the Olympic torch just days ago and was the tournament’s No. 2 seed — was ousted. Elsewhere, Team USA grabbed four more medals in the pool