3:00 PM ET ESPN News Services Diego Schwartzman came back to beat US Open champion Dominic Thiem in five sets across more than five hours at the French Open on Tuesday, reaching the first Grand Slam semifinal of his career. Schwartzman, of Argentina, was two points from defeat on three occasions in the fourth set
6:19 PM ET Steve Kim Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Terence Crawford’s WBO welterweight title defense against former titlist Kell Brook is now official. It’s not the fight boxing fans have wanted
Oct 5, 2020 Jeff Carlisle Close U.S. soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Austin Lindberg The reign of the youth-oriented Philadelphia Union atop the MLS Power Rankings lasted just one week, with a veteran-laden Toronto FC taking the reins at the top of the league — a
4:07 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The most coveted seat in NASCAR belongs to Alex Bowman in a Hendrick Motorsports lineup shuffle to replace seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson in the iconic No. 48 Chevrolet. Bowman and crew chief Greg Ives, who won five championships with Johnson as his engineer, will move from the
7:30 AM ET The NFC East is the NFC Least. It’s not just bad — it’s worse than last season. The Dallas Cowboys can’t stop a nosebleed, the New York Giants can’t reach the end zone, the Philadelphia Eagles barely have a recognizable offensive lineman or wide receiver and the Washington Football Team doesn’t even
5:19 PM ET Tony Finau has withdrawn from this week’s Shriners Hospitals for Children Open after testing positive for COVID-19, the PGA Tour announced Tuesday. “Earlier today, I received a positive result for Covid-19 under PGA TOUR on-site testing protocols and have begun a period of self-quarantine to protect others around me,” he wrote on
4:42 PM ET Steve KimESPN The long-awaited battle of undefeated British heavyweights Daniel Dubois and Joe Joyce will now take place on Nov. 28, according to promoter Frank Warren. Dubois-Joyce has already been pushed back from April, July and October, with Warren hoping to have fans allowed inside an arena for the fight. “With boxing
Italy’s Luca Wackermann was taken to hospital after a helicopter “flying too low” caused a crash near the end of stage four of the Giro d’Italia. Vini Zabu-KTM’s Wackermann and Etienne van Empel both fell in the incident. Dutch rider Van Empel was able to get back up but his team-mate was less fortunate. “Wackermann
IPL Points Table: Mumbai Indians have won four of their six matches so far.© BCCI/IPL Mumbai Indians romped Rajasthan Royals by 57 runs on Tuesday to go to the top of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 points table, winning their third match in a row. Suryakumar Yadav hit an unbeaten 47-ball 79 as they
2:13 PM BST Wales coach Wayne Pivac has named seven uncapped players in his 38-man squad for the finish to the 2020 Six Nations and the inaugural Autumn Nations Cup, with exciting winger Louis Rees-Zammit among those hoping to make his debut. The Gloucester player is one of five uncapped backs, along with scrum-half Kieran
Britain’s Geraint Thomas was forced to pull out of the Giro d’Italia because of a fractured hip. The Ineos Grenadiers rider, 34, crashed just before the start of Monday’s third stage after a drinks bottle became lodged under his front wheel. A scan on Monday was inconclusive but a second on Tuesday showed a fracture.
10:54 AM ET The latest transfer window in history has finally closed and as you’d expect, some clubs and players have done better than others. Some teams did their business early, while others left it to the last minute after scrambling around for deadline-day bargains — although time will tell whether they are canny transfers
11:54 AM ET Associated Press Charlotte Thomas has withdrawn from the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship after her caddie tested positive for the coronavirus. Thomas dropped out because she was in close contact with the caddie and will begin a 14-day quarantine. Thomas, 27, was among the field set to play beginning Thursday at Aronimink Golf
12:19 PM ET The Latin America Amateur Championship, whose winner gets an automatic invitation to The Masters and The Open, has been canceled for 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The event, which is sponsored by the USGA, the R&A and The Masters and has been played since 2014, was scheduled for Jan. 14-17
10:18 AM ET Prosecutors in France have opened an investigation into match-fixing at the ongoing French Open, according to French news service AFP. The target is a doubles match featuring Romanian pair Andreea Mitu and Patricia Maria Tig, and Yana Sizikova of Russia and her American partner, Madison Brengle. No individual player has been named
7:30 AM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Twirling his whistle furiously, John Chavis instructs one of his linebackers to get wider. “Line up right there on his foot,” Chavis barks. “Let’s run it again. On the hop. Let’s go!” It’s reminiscent of the way the man they call “Chief” coached the game for 30 consecutive years
7:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” The writer Kurt Vonnegut once took to a chalkboard to lecture on the simple shapes that most popular stories follow. In his first example — “Man in Hole” — a protagonist starts
6:50 AM ET Chris Herro didn’t want to send the text, didn’t even want to pick up the phone. But he was the father of a 19-year-old, worried and couldn’t stop himself. It was 11:30 on a summer night, and his son, Tyler Herro, had been drafted a few weeks earlier by the Miami Heat.