7:12 PM ET Associated Press Slumping catcher Gary Sanchez returned to the New York Yankees‘ lineup Tuesday night, hours after general manager Brian Cashman spoke to the struggling team in Buffalo, New York. Cashman tried to reinvigorate a roster that has lost four straight games and 14 of 19, a slump that has dropped New
6:09 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is inactive for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Tuesday against the Miami Heat because of a sprained right ankle. Antetokounmpo clearly tried to get himself ready for Game 5. He was on the court about two hours before game time, getting some shots
5:22 PM ET Associated Press Golfer Charley Hull of England has withdrawn from the ANA Inspiration after testing positive for the coronavirus. Hull has one LPGA Tour title among her four professional wins. She said she wasn’t feeling her best when she arrived in the California desert but chalked that up to jet lag, extreme
3:45 PM ET Chris WrightToe Poke writer Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email By virtue of his two goals in Portugal’s UEFA Nations League match against Sweden on Tuesday, Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo has become only the second player in the history of men’s football to score 100 senior goals for his country. With his
2:00 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — American Jennifer Brady said she was nervous at the start of her first career Grand Slam quarterfinal, but it didn’t show. Brady notched the biggest victory yet in her breakout run at the US Open, beating Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan on Tuesday, 6-3, 6-2. Seeded 28th, Brady
1:55 PM ET Steve KimESPN The World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight finals between Yuniel Dorticos and Mairis Briedis has been rescheduled for Sept. 26 at the Plazamedia broadcasting centre in Munich, Germany, according to Kalle Sauerland, chief boxing officer for the WBSS. The fight, which matches ESPN’s top two rated cruiserweights, has been postponed twice
Akeal Hosein scalped three wickets while Lendl Simmons played an unbeaten knock of 54 runs as Trinbago Knight Riders defeated Jamaica Tallawahs by nine wickets in the first semi-final of the ongoing Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2020 at the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. Now, Trinbago Knight Riders will face the winners of the
7:30 AM ET The pool for ESPN’s 2020 preseason All-America team was considerably smaller, which is weird. But what hasn’t been weird about this preseason, this offseason, this summer? In short, you won’t see any players from the Big Ten, the Pac-12, the Mountain West or any of the conferences not scheduled to play this
7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN The 2020 MLB playoffs are right around the corner, even though it seems like only yesterday that the regular season kicked off. Well, it wasn’t yesterday but close enough, as the compressed 60-game schedule is rapidly coming to a close and the MLB standings are tight heading to the finish.
7:30 AM ET The strangest and seemingly longest offseason in college football history is finally over, and the ACC and Big 12 are scheduled to kick off this week, followed by the SEC in two weeks. No one knows how the season is going to go — or how long it will go — but
9:27 AM ET The wheels kept turning last week as Dana White’s Contender Series continued to be one of the most important parts of the pandemic-mired year for the UFC. Last Tuesday, three DWCS winners were awarded UFC contracts and two others — plus one of the losing fighters — received an invitation back to
Ireland’s Sam Bennett won stage 10 of the Tour de France as Primoz Roglic retained the leader’s yellow jersey. Bennett, 29, edged out Australia’s Caleb Ewan in a sprint finish to give the Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider his first stage win on the Tour. Roglic safely negotiated the flat 168.5km route from Ile d’Oleron Le Chateau-d’Oleron to
7:15 AM ET JAMES HARDEN CROUCHED, waiting for referee Ed Malloy to release the ball into the air. Dallas Mavericks forward Kristaps Porzingis stood three feet away across the center circle. The Houston Rockets‘ superstar is 6-foot-5. Porzingis is one of the tallest and longest players in the league, listed at 7-foot-3. Something didn’t add
10:17 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com As Novak Djokovic‘s US Open run came to an unceremonious end with a default Sunday afternoon, Shelby Rogers was a few hundred feet away doing what she has been doing all tournament: defying everyone’s expectations. Facing the two-time major champion and No. 6 seed Petra Kvitova in a fourth-round match
Shubman Gill celebrates his 21st birthday today and many in the cricket fraternity took to social media to wish the cricketer a happy birthday. “To one of the hardest workers on the park and the gang leader of the thugs of Punjab who hits it hard and straight out of the ground here’s wishing @shubmangill
4:44 AM ET When a France team starring Hugo Lloris and Yoann Gourcuff won the UEFA Under-19 Championship on July 29 2005, bringing to a close a season that saw Liverpool win the Champions League and CSKA Moscow the UEFA Cup, no one could possibly have imagined the relentless stranglehold Spanish football was about to
Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme and members of staff from four teams have tested positive for Covid-19. Every rider returned a negative test though, so all 22 teams started the 10th stage of the tour. French health authorities and Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) have said if two members of a team test positive,
Simon Roberts has been appointed acting team principal at Williams following the decision of the family who founded the team to step down. The 57-year-old joined Williams in May as managing director from McLaren, where he had spent 17 years. Roberts will run Williams while new owners Dorilton Capital, an investment group who bought the