12:34 PM ET KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — The PGA Tour will relax mask mandates for players starting next week at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Texas, no longer requiring those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to wear masks indoors. Players received a memo from the PGA Tour this week outlining the plan that will
2:03 PM ET Associated Press GENEVA (AP) – Swiss teenager Dominic Stricker now has a 2-0 career record after beating Marton Fucsovics 7-5, 6-4 Wednesday in the second round of the Geneva Open. Stricker, the French Open junior champion, beat a top-50 opponent for the second straight day in his ATP tournament debut. The 419th-ranked
3:31 PM ET Associated Press PARMA, Italy — American teenager Coco Gauff eased past Camila Giorgi of Italy 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Emilia-Romagna Open. The third-seeded Gauff, who reached the semifinals at the Italian Open last week for the best result on clay in her career, will next face
3:22 PM ET UFC lightweight Beneil Dariush waited months for Tesla to give him some answers about a brand new car he ordered in 2020. As it turns out, all he needed to do was call out Elon Musk on live television to get the response he was looking for. Dariush, 32, defeated Tony Ferguson
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2:08 PM ET Associated Press Roush Fenway Racing on Wednesday announced a contract extension with both driver Chris Buescher and longtime sponsor Fastenal. The deal with Fastenal was extended through the 2024 season. The distributor has been a Roush anchor partner since 2010 when Fastenal joined the team as primary sponsor for Carl Edwards in
7:00 AM ET NBA Insiders A season after winning an NBA championship in the bubble, the Los Angeles Lakers find themselves in the NBA’s play-in round, needing to win a game just to reach the postseason. The Golden State Warriors, who bounced back after a dismal, injury-plagued 2019-20 to put themselves in a position to
2:25 PM BST Former New Zealand international Kieran Crowley has replaced Franco Smith as Italy’s rugby coach, the country’s rugby federation said on Wednesday. A former full-back who was part of the All Blacks’ World Cup-winning squad in 1987, Crowley has spent the last five seasons coaching Italian club Benetton. 1 Related The 59-year-old previously
Colombia’s Egan Bernal took control of the overall standings in the Giro d’Italia by extending his lead in the race to 45 seconds. Switzerland’s Mauro Schmid won a dramatic stage 11 from a breakaway as riders struggled with the intense gravel roads of Tuscany. British duo Hugh Carthy and Simon Yates moved up to fourth
1:14 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — The Dallas Open will bring professional men’s tennis to the city next year as the first ATP Tour event there since the circuit started in 1990. The indoor hard-court tournament will be played at SMU from Feb. 6-13, the tour announced Wednesday. It is an ATP 250 event
The PSL season was postponed midway due to the COVID-19 pandemic.© Instagram Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the six franchise owners on Wednesday discussed in a virtual session the operational planning and delivery of the remaining 20 Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches, which are scheduled to be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from
12:42 PM BST Murrayfield will allow in 16,500 spectators when the British & Irish Lions face Japan on June 26 ahead of their tour to South Africa this year, the Lions said on Wednesday. The move to let fans attend amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was made after consultations with the Scottish government. 1 Related
7:15 AM ET Editor’s note: From rising strikeout totals and unwritten rules debates to connecting with a new generation of fans and a looming labor battle, baseball is at a crossroads. As MLB faces these challenges, we are embarking on a season-long look at The State of Baseball, examining the storylines that will determine how
10:47 AM ET The head of UK Anti-Doping, Nicole Sapstead, is leaving to take up a new role with the International Tennis Integrity Agency after 12 years with the organisation, UKAD said on Wednesday. Sapstead, who has been chief executive of UKAD for six years, will become the ITIA’s Senior Director for Anti-Doping. 1 Related
Lewis Hamilton says he believes Max Verstappen “feels perhaps he has a lot to prove” in their title fight. The pair have had a number of near-misses racing wheel-to-wheel in 2021. “I think I have done well to avoid all the incidents,” Hamilton said. “But we have 19 more [races] and we could connect. He
Ravichandran Ashwin and Mithali Raj in the chartered flight from Chennai to Mumbai.© Twitter India women’s team Test and ODI captain Mithali Raj and men’s team all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin reached Mumbai on Wednesday in a chartered flight from Chennai. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) tweeted pictures of the players arriving in
12:00 AM ET The 2020-21 NBA playoffs — and play-in! — are finally here. And this thing is as wide open as ever. But before we lock in the full 16-team field, here’s a look at the first round of the play-in tournament, during which two teams from each conference will secure the Nos. 7
8:03 AM ET Tatiana Suarez, one of the best women’s MMA fighters in the world, is finally close to returning to the Octagon. Suarez told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in a video interview published Wednesday that she has been medically cleared by doctors and is targeting a return to the UFC in September, or perhaps even