Up to 20,000 spectators will be allowed to attend next month’s Formula 1 Eifel Grand Prix in Germany. The race will take place on 11 October at the Nurburgring track, north of Cologne, which normally accommodates more than 100,000 fans. The grandstands will be divided into individual sections, in which there will be designated seating
5:46 AM ET World No. 1 Ash Barty may have decided to skip the US and French Opens but the coronavirus pandemic has not prevented her from collecting trophies and as of Sunday she was women’s champion at the Brookwater Golf Club. The 24-year-old Australian, who famously played professional cricket during a year out from
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) overcame all odds to win the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 opener against Mumbai Indians. Two of their best players had pulled out of the tournament, one member of the squad has just joined the bio-bubble and a squad with many players on the wrong side of 30s isn’t expected to be
Women’s sport has been slower to return after the coronavirus pandemic played havoc with events, cup competitions and leagues across the world. But it is back and BBC Sport has three quality events to watch live this weekend. Women’s sport Saturday on 26 September will feature football, cricket and road cycling. Women’s road race, BBC
7:01 AM ET Jose Mourinho and Gareth Bale had always seemed to be the football connection that was destined never to happen. Once at Real Madrid, and for two successive summers at Manchester United, Mourinho tried and failed to add the Wales winger to his squad. In so many ways, Bale was, and is, a
11:55 PM ET CHICAGO — Chicago Cubs left fielder Kyle Schwarber was pulled from Sunday’s game after he played a double into a triple off the bat of Minnesota Twins center fielder Jake Cave. “I think the guy shouldn’t have gotten to third base there,” a repentant Schwarber said after the Twins’ 4-0 win. “It
10:59 PM ET When the Los Angeles Lakers took a 16-point lead with 8:12 left in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals against the Denver Nuggets, it seemed like they would cruise to a victory, similar to Game 1. But the Nuggets kept playing, cutting the Los Angeles lead to 82-78 entering the fourth
9:57 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Albert Langlois, a three-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens, has died. He was 85. The team announced the death Sunday. Langlois played four seasons with the Canadiens from 1957 to 1961, winning the Stanley Cup with the team in ’58, `59 and ’60. The defenseman also
8:41 PM ET The U.S. Open did what it often does, bruising and battering the best golfers in the world, sometimes making them look silly, but also highlighting how good they really are when considering the immense obstacles in the path at America’s national championship. That might have been of little consolation to Matthew Wolff
9:14 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres are returning to the playoffs for the first time in 14 years after beating the Seattle Mariners 7-4 Sunday with a three-run rally in the 11th inning that included a go-ahead double by newcomer Mitch Moreland. The clincher came in the finale
8:02 PM ET New England Patriots running back James White‘s father, Tyrone, died in a car accident Sunday, the Miami-Dade Police Department confirmed. White was inactive for the team’s game against the Seattle Seahawks. “I’m extremely saddened after learning of the passing of MDPD Captain Tyrone White earlier today as a result of an off-duty
8:39 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Georgia Hall won the Cambia Portland Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour victory in the United States, beating Ashleigh Buhai with a par on the second hole of a playoff. Hall won after falling into a tie with a bogey on the par-4 18th in
8:19 PM ET MAMORONECK, N.Y. — As Bryson DeChambeau walked the final fairway at Winged Foot early Sunday evening, heading toward the iconic clubhouse that was about to be the backdrop for a photo opportunity with the U.S. Open trophy, there was quiet. It seemed fitting, really, because his performance, a four-day exhibition of strength
7:02 PM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Jim Furyk joined Arnold Palmer and Bruce Fleisher as the only players to win their first two PGA Tour Champions starts, beating Jerry Kelly with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff in the Pure Insurance Championship. Furyk and Kelly both laid up on
4:44 PM ET LONDON — It took Liverpool almost three months of pondering and prevarication before they suddenly snapped into action and completed the £20m signing of Thiago Alcantara from Bayern Munich last Thursday. Within five minutes of his debut against Chelsea on Sunday, you had to wonder why Liverpool spent so long making up
12:25 PM ET Associated Press ROME — Novak Djokovic knows it isn’t model behavior when he loses his cool on the tennis court. Yet he just can’t help himself. Exactly two weeks after he was defaulted from the US Open, and a day after he was warned by the chair umpire for breaking his racket,
As the world waited for Primoz Roglic to appear over the summit approaching La Planche des Belles Filles on Saturday, resplendent in yellow, they expected something special. This was a man who had spent three weeks demonstrating he was at the peak of his physical power, complete with mirrored sunglasses and a chiselled jaw, stylishly
Delhi Capitals (DC) skipper Shreyas Iyer was full of praise for South African speedster Kagiso Rabada who helped the side get across the line in a tense match against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP), which went down to the Super Over. Rabada accounted for the dismissals of KXIP skipper KL Rahul and Nicholas Pooran off consecutive