6:38 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Long shot Shedaresthedevil won the Kentucky Oaks in record time, overtaking favorite Gamine at the top of the stretch and holding off Swiss Skydiver for a 1½-length victory Friday in the 146th Kentucky Oaks for fillies at Churchill Downs. Shedaresthedevil was fresh off a Grade 3 stakes
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7:00 AM ET Gio Reyna is terrified. It is June 13. His team, Borussia Dortmund, beat Dusseldorf earlier in the day. On the bus after the game, everyone is ecstatic. But Gio didn’t feel right. His throat is raw and he is tired. Only now, he can’t sleep. It is late, near midnight in Germany.
5:02 PM ET LA Clippers power forward Montrezl Harrell has won the 2019-20 Sixth Man of the Year award, a source confirmed to ESPN. For the third consecutive year, the Clippers have the league’s top sixth man after Lou Williams won the award the previous two seasons. The Clippers now have had the Sixth Man
7:00 AM ET NHL Insiders It took a while, but the 2020 NHL playoffs have finally served up a Game 7. After falling behind 3-1 in the series, the Colorado Avalanche roared back to tie things up with the Dallas Stars. The two Central Division foes have given us some entertaining hockey, taking turns completely
2:05 PM ET After the most bizarre offseason in NFL history, the fantasy football season is set to kick off next week, which means we’re heading into the biggest fantasy football draft weekend of the year. With that in mind, our experts gathered for one final mock draft in a 10-team, non-PPR format. We’ve been
8:44 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com As one of the most highly touted junior tennis players in the country, the coaching staff at UCLA didn’t know what to expect from incoming freshman Jennifer Brady when she started at the school in the fall of 2013. She had been ranked as high as No. 36 in the
2:02 PM ET Tristan H. Cockcroft We know fantasy football hasn’t been a priority for everyone this summer the way it has been in the past, but the NFL season is upon us, and if you’re going to draft a fantasy football team, this is the weekend to do it. Create or join a league
11:03 AM ET Lionel Messi will stay at Barcelona after a dramatic U-turn saw him end his bid to leave the club this summer. The decision, reported by Goal.com, comes after days of intense speculation sparked by Messi’s attempt to unilaterally rescind his contract on Aug. 25. Messi and his legal team argued on Friday
9:29 AM ET Next weekend’s UFC card has a new main event. Michelle Waterson vs. Angela Hill will serve as the new headliner on Sept. 12, sources say. The decision comes after the original headliner — Glover Teixeira vs. Thiago Santos — was canceled earlier this week after Teixeira tested positive for COVID-19. That fight
10:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders After William Byron picked up his first career Cup Series win in the final race of the regular season last weekend, the NASCAR playoffs begin with the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on Sunday (6 p.m. ET). Who will take the checkered flag? Editor Scott Symmes and
Wout van Aert won stage seven of the Tour de France in a sprint finish as Briton Adam Yates kept the leader’s yellow jersey. The Belgian, who also won stage five, got the better of his sprint rivals at the end of a blustery 168km ride from Millau to Lavaur. The Jumbo-Visma rider edged out
12:25 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The field for the Kentucky Derby has been reduced to 16 after Finnick the Fierce was scratched on Friday. The one-eyed gelding may have an issue with his foot. He’s missing his right eye because of a congenital cataract. The Derby on Saturday will have its fewest
6:00 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Eric Bledsoe has heard the talk. How he was outplayed by fill-in starter Terry Rozier, who rankled Bledsoe on and off the court, causing him to average just 13.6 points per game on 44% shooting in the Milwaukee Bucks‘ seven-game loss to the Boston Celtics in 2018. How a year
7:00 AM ET CHICAGO — It was June 26, 2019. Chicago Cubs right-hander Yu Darvish was struggling — like he had done for much of his short Cubs career — against the Atlanta Braves. Then came a mound visit from his pitching coach and a conversation later in the dugout. Those moments changed the trajectory
Lewis Hamilton was fastest in second practice at the Italian Grand Prix as Mercedes dominated yet again. Hamilton was 0.262 seconds quicker than team-mate Valtteri Bottas after they completed laps in line astern, each trying to benefit from a slipstream. Daniel Ricciardo was third in the Renault but had his lap time deleted for running
MS Dhoni was all smiles ahead of Chennai Super Kings’ first training session in the UAE.© Instagram With the Indian Premier League (IPL) set to begin on September 19, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) shared a photo of their skipper MS Dhoni before the team’s first training session on Friday evening. This comes after a long
8:02 AM ET What Alistair Overeem is doing — especially at this stage of his career — you just don’t see every day. Veterans of his caliber are not always willing to accept this kind of a fight. Overeem (46-18) will face Augusto Sakai (15-1-1) in the main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday,
8:06 AM ET The Washington Football Team has released veteran running back Adrian Peterson, the team announced Friday. Peterson, 35, rushed for 1,940 yards and 12 touchdowns in two seasons with Washington. He missed one game, when then-coach Jay Gruden made him a healthy inactive for the 2019 season opener. Peterson, who entered the league