Vanderbilt pitchers Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker have been one of the biggest stories in college baseball this season. First, a look at how good Leiter and Rocker have been: Leiter rank 1-2 in Division I in strikeouts this season; the last duo to finish top three in strikeouts in the same season was UCLA’s […]
We were allowed to give him a hug, and it was great to see him walk around with his son. Eriksen, 29, suffered a cardiac arrest during Denmark’s first Euro 2020 game against Finland last Saturday and had to be resuscitated with a defibrillator. …Read the full story
MANCHESTER, England –It was a quiet night in the Bay Horse pub on Friday, but the locals knew who to blame for that. “Pretty rubbish that, wasn’t it?” pub regular Barry Barlow told ESPN. While 22,500 supporters watched — and endured — the Group D stalemate inside Wembley Stadium, with the usual 90,000 capacity reduced […]
The birth of Jordan and Blake Coleman’s daughter Carson after Game 1 was one of our favorite stories of the postseason, and the episode chronicles his intense gameday, with copious shots of a lovely newborn. Coleman got into it with Mathew Barzal of the Islanders, exchanging cross-checks as Coleman asks him repeatedly “do you want […]
Why he can win: Maybe if Bland, 48, had been putting on Poa annua greens, like the ones at Torrey Pines, for the past 20 years he’d have more than one victory on the European Tour. 115-ranked player in the world, needed 478 starts on the European Tour to win for the first time at […]
The successful perspective would point to the fact that Utah finished with the best regular-season record in the NBA and advanced one round further in the postseason than the team did a year ago. In the first-round series against the Memphis Grizzlies, Conley was Utah’s best player, averaging 17.4 points and 8.6 assists, and shooting […]
Yet on a broader level, this was a prescription for the Sixers after blowing a 26-point second-half lead on their home floor in Game 5 in the wake of squandering a 16-point lead in Game 4. Sixers guard Seth Curry maintained his routine of watching film, checking out the other postseason series, and moving through […]
LOS ANGELES — Patrick Beverley, Terance Mann and Marcus Morris Sr. The Clippers, who trailed by 22 at the half, completed the largest halftime comeback in a series-clinching win in NBA history, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Starting for the second straight game for an injured Kawhi Leonard, Mann delivered the game of […]
“I just felt like it wasn’t called both ways, especially because of the minimal contact that they get on the point guard and when it comes to us, we don’t get the same thing,” Embiid said after Philadelphia came back from down 12 in the first quarter to win. In their later skirmish, Embiid was […]
On Day 1 of U.S. Even before the fourth of his six tries on a mild, sunshiny evening at Hayward Field had plunked into the dirt, Crouser was lifting his arms to celebrate. About a half-minute passed while officials checked the distance. Crouser, who was second to Kovacs at world championships in Doha in 2019, […]
“I really wanted to be on this Olympic team,” Lochte said. During a boisterous night in Rio with several younger teammates, Lochte lied about being robbed at gunpoint. Lilly King also booked a second event in Tokyo, though she didn’t touch the wall first. Caeleb Dressel, who is expected to succeed Phelps and Lochte as […]
Preece got in a truck for the first time to get bonus track time ahead of Sunday’s Cup race, the first ever for NASCAR’s top series at the track. It’s reopening Friday night was the first act in a three-day show that concludes with the Cup Series’ return to the Nashville-area for the first time […]
SAN DIEGO — Bubba Watson can still hammer a tee shot, with a homemade swing and a pink shaft and several contortions along the way. He has finished in the top 5 just once in this major championship, that coming in 2007 at Oakmont. Bubba Watson is not supposed to win the Masters and somehow […]
Maguire, 26, is trying to become the first Irish winner in LPGA Tour history. “There is not really time to look around or even look behind. After rain and thunderstorms delayed the start two hours, Maguire birdied five her first nine holes, bogeyed Nos. “Then, I actually holed a bomb on 2, I think, like […]
Atlanta Hawks big man only scored five points in the first three quarters of Game 6 against the Philadelphia 76ers. With just under five minutes left in the third quarter, Collins rose up for an alley-oop, throwing down a vicious dunk over 76ers All-Star Joel Embiid while somehow simultaneously putting Embiid in a headlock. …Read […]
“Since that time, many states have enacted NIL legislation and 10 state laws can take effect this July. But leading Democrats would like to extend their reach into other areas of college sports such as regulating long-term health care and education opportunities for athletes. Also hanging over the NCAA is a pending Supreme Court ruling […]
I’ve been driving the ball well for five, six weeks now, which is the cornerstone if you’re going to put a fight up for a U.S. But I just think every kind of sportsman, sportswoman, they have that never-die or that never-quit attitude, no matter whether it’s golf or it’s tennis or it’s boxing, whatever […]
Grosjean went 1 minute, 47.6781 seconds in his Dale Coyne Racing with RWR Honda on the 14-turn, 4.014-mile road course, where he tested two weeks ago. “When you lead a free practice, you don’t want to make many changes for the rest of the weekend,” Grosjean said. “The teams apparently are saving money on doing […]
Defender Reggie Cannon and midfielders Kellyn Acosta, Sebastian Lletget and Jackson Yueill are the only holdovers from the 23-man roster for the Nations League roster. They are being given time off ahead of preseasons with their European clubs and the start of World Cup qualifying on Sept. Also on the preliminary roster and hoping to […]
