Valtteri Bottas must be starting to wonder what he has to do to beat Lewis Hamilton at all this year. Bottas has not won a race since the opening grand prix of the season. And the last time he started ahead of his Mercedes team-mate in qualifying was at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at
7:00 AM ET IT’S A FIVE-POINT game in a 1-1 playoff series and the game clock ticks inside two minutes in the first half when LeBron James goes in his bag. The sequence begins when James snags a defensive rebound and advances the ball up the left side of the court. Once past the massive
12:32 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After playing five matches in seven days, Victoria Azarenka was ready for one more. It was her first singles final in almost 18 months, and she was looking for her biggest title since 2016. The 31-year-old had been victorious against several notable opponents on her path to the championship match,
Team Sunweb’s Soren Kragh Andersen took a surprise win on stage 14 of the Tour de France with a late solo attack as Primoz Roglic maintained his lead in the yellow jersey. Andersen sprung his attack with three kilometres to go, opening up a 15-second gap to take his first stage win. Luka Mezgec was
Defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten won stage two of the Giro Rosa to take the leader’s jersey. The Dutch road race world champion, 37, won by more than a minute ahead of Boels-Dolmans’ Anna van der Breggen and Canyon-SRAM’s Katarzyna Niewiadoma. Mitchelton-Scott rider Van Vleuten was leading when she suffered a mechanical. But she worked
9:41 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — Friday night’s game between the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres was postponed minutes before the scheduled first pitch due to a positive COVID-19 test in the Giants organization, MLB announced. Both teams lined up for a moment of silence for the victims of the
10:00 AM ET We want our fantasy football and we want our fantasy, period. We need the fun-and-games escape from all of America’s problems. And our blessed medicine, our respite from months of sea-to-shining-sea sickness, arrives this weekend in an avalanche of wonderful football, God bless America. But as our country’s history records the victims
England’s Sam Billings hopes his maiden international hundred will be a springboard into tournament cricket after he missed out on last year’s World Cup triumph through injury. The 29-year-old Kent batsman made an impressive 118 against a top-class attack during England’s 19-run defeat by Australia in the first one-day international at Old Trafford on
9:30 AM ET Harry Kettle Arsenal began the 2020-21 Premier League campaign with a convincing 3-0 win against Fulham at Craven Cottage. Alexandre Lacazette poked home from close range to give the visitors an early lead with Gabriel Magalhaes and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang rounding off a really strong showing from Mikel Arteta’s men, as new signing
Mitchelton-Scott’s British rider Simon Yates remained in the Tirreno-Adriatico lead after stage six, which was won in a sprint finish by Belgian Tim Merlier of Alpecin-Fenix. Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas stayed third overall as he and Yates finished in the leading pack. Rafal Majka of Bora-Hansgrohe, remained second, 23 seconds ahead of Welshman Thomas. Michael
Lewis Hamilton took his seventh pole position in nine races this season at the first Tuscan Grand Prix. The world champion beat Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas by just 0.059 seconds on Formula 1’s first competitive experience of the spectacular Mugello circuit. Red Bull locked out the second row, Max Verstappen ahead of Alex Albon. And
7:39 AM ET Slashes, fights, and goals galore. The Eastern Conference finals are just starting to heat up. Meanwhile, the Dallas Stars can put everyone on watch tonight, with the opportunity to go up 3-1 on the favored Vegas Golden Knights. Check out ESPN NHL Playoffs Today every day of the postseason until the Stanley
8:26 AM ET NEW YORK — This time, the man on the other side of the net from Dominic Thiem in a Grand Slam final won’t be Rafael Nadal, greatest clay court player of all time, on the red dirt in the stade Roland Garros. This time, Thiem will not be facing Novak Djokovic, who
11:54 PM ET There are few people in the NBA who dislike each other more than Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge and Miami Heat president Pat Riley — and it has been this way going on four decades. They hated each other in the 1980s, when Ainge was a guard for the Celtics in the
12:43 PM ET The UFC’s main event this weekend is official now that strawweights Michelle Waterson and Angela Hill made weight Friday morning. Waterson weighed in at 115 pounds and Hill was 115.5. The two will meet in the UFC Fight Night headliner Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Hill is the first
Virat Kohli looks more intense, hungrier than ever before and even more balanced with every Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) training session, as visible in a video shared by the franchise’s official Twitter handle. Kohli can be seen playing a variety of shots during a nets session with several audacious strokes, indicating the confidence levels of
1:12 AM ET Phil Davis defeated Lyoto Machida in a light heavyweight rematch via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) on Friday night in the main event of Bellator 245 at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun. The victory put Davis on the short list of potential first title defenses for new Bellator 205-pound champion Vadim Nemkov. The most
9:48 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Justin Allgaier gave up the lead, bided his time and then took it back. Allgaier caught front-running Justin Haley with 29 laps to go Friday night and held him off the rest of the way to win the NASCAR Xfinity race at Richmond Raceway, giving him his