10:33 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Improbable rallied from last to a 4½-length victory over stablemate Maximum Security in the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita. Ridden by Drayden Van Dyke, Improbable ran 1⅛ miles in 1 minute, 49.01 seconds to earn his third consecutive Grade 1 victory and fourth
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10:05 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — DJ LeMahieu is on the verge of a first in more than a century of Major League Baseball: the first player to win undisputed batting titles in both the American and National Leagues. Luke Voit is about to become a more common name atop the leaderboards
10:10 PM ET Steve KimESPN Jermall Charlo retained his WBC middleweight title by outpointing Sergiy Derevyanchenko over 12 fast-paced rounds in the “first main event” of a two-part Showtime PPV card at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Saturday. At the end of the fight, all three judges had the fight for Charlo,
6:22 PM ET A five-week stay for the UFC on Fight Island kicks off in earnest on Saturday with UFC 253 from Yas Island, Abu Dhabi. The main event will feature undefeated middleweight champion Israel Adesanya (19-0) looking to defend his title for the second time against an undefeated challenger in Paulo Costa (13-0). It
9:07 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Adam Long went from trying to hit a fairway to a course so open it’s hard to miss. He went from grinding over pars to pouring in birdies. One week after he toiled to a tie for 13th at Winged Foot in the U.S. Open,
7:55 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings acquired defenseman Marc Staal and a second-round draft pick from the New York Rangers for future considerations Saturday. The draft pick is in 2021. The 33-year-old Staal had two goals and nine assists in 52 games this past season. He has played his whole
5:13 PM ET The 2020 French Open begins Sunday with only 1,000 spectators allowed on site, questions about whether France’s coronavirus cases will continue to rise and the debut of the new $55 million retractable roof atop Court Philippe Chatrier. The French Open normally starts in May but was postponed this year because of the
4:11 PM BST Juan Imhoff scored the game’s only try in the dying minutes as France’s Racing 92 came from behind to beat defending champions Saracens 19-15 in their European Champions Cup semifinal on Saturday. The victory sent Racing, who have never won the title, into their third final at the expense of the three-times
11:59 AM ET BRIGHTON, England — This was more like the old Manchester United under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and in many ways, that is precisely the problem. They needed a frankly ludicrous chain of events to secure a fortuitous 3-2 victory here at the Amex Stadium as Brighton hit the woodwork five times and conceded
3:09 PM ET Veteran outfielder Hunter Pence announced his retirement Saturday, bringing an end to a 14-year MLB career. “Nothing can really prepare you for this part of your career, when you have say, ‘I am retiring from baseball,'” Pence said in a video on Twitter. “I’ve given it everything I possibly can, and the
8:00 AM ET It’s Week 4 and our little college football season is all grown up. There are three games featuring two Top 25 opponents! The SEC is playing conference games! There’s intrigue: Mike Leach in his first game at Mississippi State visiting LSU and a bunch of new faces in Ed Orgeron’s lineup (and
3:42 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — The Red Wings signed forward Sam Gagner to a one-year contract extension Saturday. The Red Wings acquired Gagner on Feb. 24 in a trade with Edmonton. He played six games for Detroit. In 42 games last season with the Red Wings and Oilers, Gagner had six goals and
7:00 AM ET All four teams are still afloat in the NBA’s conference finals — and things just keep getting spicier. The Boston Celtics kept their season going by beating the Miami Heat in Friday’s Game 5 121-108. The Denver Nuggets, meanwhile, are hoping to make yet another improbable comeback from a 3-1 series deficit,
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IPL 2020 KKR vs SRH: Shubman Gill smashed 70 runs off 62 deliveries.© BCCI/IPL Shubman Gill scored a fluent half-century to guide Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to a comfortable victory over SunRisers Hyderabad at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. Chasing a target of 143, KKR got off to a poor start
IPL 2020, KKR vs SRH: Shubman Gill struck an unbeaten 70 in an innings comprising of 5 fours and 2 sixes.© BCCI/IPL Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) skipper Dinesh Karthik has expressed his desire to make sure emerging star Shubman Gill has an easy journey with no pressure. Gill struck an unbeaten 70 off 62 deliveries,
Lewis Hamilton starts the race in which he could equal the all-time record for grand prix victories from pole position on Sunday – but that 91st win is very far from the near-certainty it might be in other circumstances. After a dramatic qualifying session at the Russian Grand Prix, in which the Mercedes driver nearly
10:17 AM ET Tennis fans haven’t had much time to catch their collective breath following a wild and unusual US Open, but in this, the strangest sporting year of any of our lifetimes, it’s time to turn the clock back to mid-May and gear up for the 2020 French Open at Roland Garros. The shortest