Britain’s Geraint Thomas slipped to sixth overall at the Tirreno-Adriatico after an attacking finish to the first mountain stage of the race. Australian Lucas Hamilton won stage four in Cascia, while Canada’s Michael Woods kept the overall lead. Thomas and compatriot Simon Yates attacked on the final climb. But Yates’ Mitchelton-Scott team-mate Hamilton escaped on
Sebastian Vettel has made the “ideal” choice in moving to Aston Martin next season, says Lewis Hamilton. Vettel’s move to the team currently known as Racing Point was announced on Thursday, one day after current driver Sergio Perez said he was leaving. Hamilton said: “I was really pleased to hear it, the team has new
7:00 AM ET Gerrit Cole has a home run problem. Look, the New York Yankees have plenty of issues, and Cole is hardly the biggest of them, but when you sign the most lucrative contract for a pitcher in baseball history, the expectations are skyscraping, especially in New York and for a storied franchise that
6:45 AM ET Fantasy football drafts signal the annual rite of fall. The NFL season is nearly upon us, and it’s time to shake the pandemic blues, bust out your tablets, do your research and plunge head-on into fantasy football on ESPN.com. Matthew Berry’s Week 1 Love/Hate column is here, with players he loves and
6:00 AM ET With his suits, his hair and his style, Miami Heat team president Pat Riley has long presented a Hollywood image. But those who have worked for him know his mindset is closer to that of a general. Riley’s life has been in basketball, but as someone in his teens and 20s during
Switzerland’s Marc Hirschi took stage 12 of the Tour de France for his first-ever stage win. Hirschi, 22, for Team Sunweb, moved to the front with 28km remaining of the 218km ride from Chauvigny to Sarran. The Swiss rider, in his first Grand Tour, had led for more than 80km on Sunday’s ninth stage before
9:25 AM ET Tom Brady ruins everything. I’m speaking as a lifelong New York Jets fan, of course. But I’m also speaking as a hockey fan who wants the greatest number of people to enjoy the greatest sport on the planet (sorry, marble racing) at its greatest time of the season: The Stanley Cup conference
Sep 5, 2020 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On the morning of Feb. 7, 2017, as master sommelier Randall Bertao scanned the list of 79 students who were set to spend the next two days taking the Court of Master Sommeliers introductory exam, one name jumped off the page. He wasn’t expecting to see Cristie Kerr, seeking
Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar on Thursday confirmed that he is in discussions with PCB for a plum post in country’s cricket set-up which is believed to be chairman of selector’s post replacing Misbah ul Haq. The PCB has plans to removed head coach Misbah ul Haq from the chief selector’s position and Akhtar
9:03 AM ET Steve KimESPN After a long hiatus, boxing returned in the early summer months with a series of fight cards designed to get the business going. Those cards featured a handful of recognizable names and a few solid, if not spectacular fights. Heading into the fall, it’s time for the marquee events to
7:26 PM ET In 2014, UFC strawweight Angela Hill became the first Black American woman to sign with the promotion, and on Saturday, she’ll become the first to headline a card when she faces Michelle Waterson in a Fight Night main event. Hill’s fight was originally scheduled to be the co-main event until Glover Teixeira
4:46 AM ET Gabriel Marcotti Think back, a little less than six months ago, and you’ll journey to apocalyptic predictions about the future of football. This was a time when leagues had stopped and it wasn’t clear whether they’d be returning at all; a time when a KPMG study suggested that the Big Five leagues
11:12 AM ET For much of the last year, D’Eriq King has constantly been tested. There were the on-field struggles and an off-the-field quagmire that led to his unexpected exit at Houston. There was his mother’s cancer diagnosis. There was the loss of his father, less than a month after he left the only city
8:11 AM ET Tim Herron turned 50 in February, his new lease on golf life set to commence. The PGA Tour Champions beckoned, and he was slowly getting acclimated to senior golf and its 54-hole events and golf carts when it all came crashing to a halt. Like the rest of the sports world, golf
HSBC has extended its sponsorship with British Cycling to cover the rescheduled Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The bank had announced that it would be ending the deal early, but coronavirus has since disrupted those plans. The deal is understood to be worth £10m per Olympic cycle. “I’m incredibly proud of what our two
6:38 AM ET A buzzer beater, a team playing with only nine forwards, some controversial hits and a player reuniting with a very good pup. Wednesday in the NHL ran a gamut of emotions. Thursday surely won’t let up, as we get a pivotal Game 3 in the Western Conference Finals between the Vegas Golden
Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel is to join the renamed Aston Martin team in Formula 1 next year. Aston Martin said signing Vettel was “a clear statement of the team’s ambition” to establish themselves at the front. Vettel replaces Sergio Perez, who announced he was leaving on Wednesday. More to follow.
11:44 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Tim MacMahon Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Houston Rockets forward Danuel House Jr.‘s status