11:58 AM ET Associated Press The U.S. Tennis Association has canceled several amateur events in August because of the coronavirus pandemic but is still planning to hold the US Open starting Aug. 31. USTA national championships in certain junior age groups for singles and doubles are being scrapped. That includes boys’ 18s in Orlando and
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7:24 AM ET Pep Guardiola has never encouraged Manchester City‘s supporters to boo and jeer the Champions League anthem during the stand-off with UEFA during his four years in charge as manager at the Etihad Stadium. The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach has instead urged the fans to focus their energy on backing the
9:47 PM IST Former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza confirmed on Tuesday that he is Covid-19 negative. His wife Sumona Haque, however, continues to test positive. Mortaza, who is also a Member of Parliament representing the ruling Awami League party, was diagnosed with the virus three weeks ago, on June 20. “I heard the results of
7:00 AM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University What if college football can’t be played this fall? Is spring football
Jul 14, 2020 Associated Press The Swiss Indoors tennis tournament has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers say it would be “irresponsible and logistically difficult to go ahead” amid uncertainty about public health and the economy. Tournament head Roger Brennwald says “social distancing or matches played behind closed doors were out of the
9:37 AM ET A critical matchup in the UFC’s surging featherweight division is now official. Calvin Kattar and Dan Ige both successfully made weight Tuesday for their UFC Fight Night main event bout in Abu Dhabi. Kattar weighed in at 146 pounds and Ige was 145 pounds. Both co-main event fighters also weighed in successfully
7:46 AM ET Steve KimESPN Like everyone else, Mikaela Mayer found out about Jamel Herring’s positive test for COVID-19 on Monday morning. It postponed Herring’s junior lightweight world title defense against Jonathan Oquendo for the second time. Just like that, Mayer’s bout versus Helen Joseph was elevated to the main event spot of Tuesday’s Top
9:25 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com When the global coronavirus pandemic shut down the WTA Tour in March, CiCi Bellis suddenly found herself with indefinite free time. But, having spent the better part of the past two years dealing with injuries and being sidelined from tennis, she knew immediately how she would pass the time. The
7:00 AM ET Brandon Hagel believed his dream of playing in the NHL had hit a dead end, so he was close to studying to become a teacher. In 2016, the winger was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the sixth round, but after two years, they didn’t sign him to an entry-level contract. He
7:00 AM ET Last Friday, the NHL’s owners and the players approved a new collective bargaining agreement as well as the league’s return-to-play plan to finish out the 2019-20 season in two bubbles this summer. It’s six seasons of labor peace for a sport that hasn’t seen much of it over the last 30 years.
8:06 AM ET With this past Saturday’s UFC 251 welterweight title fight out of the way, I think this is an appropriate time to take a look at the rest of the division. After all, welterweight is fascinating these days, and it’s always fun to matchmake a hot-and-heavy weight class, so let’s get to some
6:30 AM ET After 4½ months, the NBA is almost back. We are weeks away from real games and, if everything goes smoothly, just under three months away from crowning the 2020 NBA champion. While the Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers and LA Clippers remain the favorites to win it all, the Larry O’Brien Trophy
7:00 AM ET The 91st All-Star Game would have been played Tuesday, and it would have been a wonderful celebration of the sport’s best players at Dodger Stadium. Instead, for the first time since 1945, there is no game, so the American League will carry its seven-game winning streak into 2021 at Atlanta’s Truist Park,
Former Great Britain cyclist Jess Varnish has lost her employment tribunal appeal against British Cycling. Varnish, 29, has spent years in a legal battle over her claim she should be considered an employee of the governing body or funding agency UK Sport. She lost her initial case in January 2019, and has now had her
British Formula E driver Sam Bird will join the Jaguar team from next season. Bird currently drives for Envision Virgin Racing, with whom he narrowly missed out on the 2018 drivers’ title. The 33-year-old has won a race in every season of the Formula E championship since 2014. “I am very proud to be driving
1:44 PM IST Edition No. 10 of the Big Bash League will run its full 61-game course and thus prevent any renegotiation of Cricket Australia’s current broadcast deal with Fox and Seven on the basis of reduced content, albeit with a stretched schedule that allows for flexibility in the time of Covid-19. Barring a late
5:04 PM ET Manchester United dropped the chance to vault into third place of the Premier League standings after giving up a stoppage time goal in a 2-2 draw with Southampton on Monday. Goals by Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial seemed to have ensured United’s place ahead of Chelsea and Leicester City, but Michael Obafemi‘s
11:54 PM ET Associated Press Ken Church, who rode over 2,000 winners during a 20-year career that included four mounts in the Kentucky Derby, died Monday. He was 90. Church was diagnosed with pneumonia a week ago at the retirement facility where he lived in Reno, Nevada, and was taken to a hospital. He contracted