Month: July 2022

12:58 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Grant Enfinger grabbed the lead with four fresh tires after a wild overtime restart and pulled away to win the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series playoff opener Friday night at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Restarting second on the inside row, Enfinger squeezed the No. 23 GMS Racing Chevrolet past
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10:27 PM ET ESPN News Services The Seattle Mariners, looking to end a postseason drought that stretches to 2001, acquired the best arm on the trade market Friday night in a deal for right-hander Luis Castillo of the Cincinnati Reds. “He’s one of the best pitchers in the game — he’s really established himself as
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8:11 PM ET The NBA has opened an investigation into the Philadelphia 76ers for possible tampering and early contact centered on the franchise’s summer free agency class of James Harden, P.J. Tucker and Danuel House, sources told ESPN on Friday. One of the central elements of the league’s probe includes questions on Harden’s decision to
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7:55 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Taylor Pendrith grew up getting breaks from golf, putting the clubs away each winter in Canada. That may have helped him when he had to miss nearly four months of competition due to a painful injury earlier this year. Pendrith shot a 7-under 65 on Friday to take
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8:11 PM ET Associated Press BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Henrik Stenson had a happy return to golf after being removed as European Ryder Cup captain, making eight birdies in his LIV Golf Invitational debut at Bedminster for a 7-under 64 to share the 18-hole lead with Patrick Reed. Phil Mickelson‘s return to the area wasn’t entirely
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6:00 PM BST England’s Rugby Football Union (RFU) and Rugby Football League (RFL) will restrict transgender participation in the domestic game, with the governing bodies recommending that only players recorded as female at birth be allowed to play in the women’s category. The RFU said last week that it had begun a review of its
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7:08 PM ET Richard Young, the top-ranked running back in the country, committed to Alabama on Friday. Young (Lehigh Senior High School, Lehigh Acres, Florida) is ranked No. 14 overall in the 2023 ESPN 300. “To be the best, you gotta practice and compete against the best,” he told ESPN. 2 Related The 5-foot-11, 195-pound
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6:53 PM ET Associated Press BAKU, Azerbaijan — Domenico Vicini reached another Davis Cup milestone Friday by becoming the first player in tournament history to play 100 matches. It came two days after the 50-year-old became the oldest player to win a Davis Cup match. The San Marino player, who turns 51 in September, played
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2:45 PM ET ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes said he read about the study clause inserted into Kyler Murray‘s contract and heard the criticism of his own play and that of other Black quarterbacks. Mahomes said he wouldn’t go as far as to say Black quarterbacks are evaluated differently than their white counterparts. But
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