Month: July 2024

Associated Press Jul 20, 2024, 03:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — Tyler Reddick watched Brickyard 400 qualifying Saturday with a skeptical eye. He saw drivers routinely missing their marks in the first turn, struggling in the fourth turn and even witnessed one veteran, Austin Cindric, hit the wall. So when Reddick encountered his
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Field Level Media Jul 20, 2024, 01:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Restricted free agent forward Joe Veleno signed a two-year, $4.55 million contract with the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday. Veleno, 24, filed for salary arbitration on July 5. He recorded 28 points (12 goals, 16 assists) in 80 games last season while playing
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Associated Press Jul 20, 2024, 02:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill must pay $25,000 and its trustees must affirm a commitment to follow the state’s open-meeting laws as part of a settlement that dismissed a lawsuit over the board’s handling of athletics discussions.
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Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJul 20, 2024, 01:22 PM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Talks between Gervonta Davis and Vasiliy Lomachenko have broken off, an
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Associated Press Jul 20, 2024, 12:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton likely will be ready for game action late next week, though the team hasn’t determined whether he will go on a minor league injury rehabilitation assignment. Stanton strained his left hamstring while running the bases on June
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Jul 20, 2024, 11:23 AM ET Open Extended Reactions TROON, Scotland — South Korea’s Si Woo Kim made the longest hole-in-one in Open history when he aced the 238-yard par-3 17th in his third round at Royal Troon on Saturday. Kim, who shot a level-par 71, selected a 3-iron from his bag and struck his
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Leny Yoro impressed on his debut for Manchester United at Murrayfield. New signing Leny Yoro made his first appearance for Manchester United in their 2-0 preseason win over Rangers on Saturday. The 18-year-old was thrown straight into the starting lineup, just a couple of days after his €62 million ($67.6m) move from Lille. Jadon Sancho
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Associated Press Jul 20, 2024, 12:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — Cole Custer will return to NASCAR’s Cup Series next season as the driver for Haas Factory, the team announced Saturday before Brickyard 400 qualifying. The 26-year-old, who was the 2020 Cup Series Rookie of the Year, will drive the No. 41 Ford.
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Getty Images Joe Rindl BBC Sport journalist 20 July 2024, 17:25 BST Updated 21 minutes ago Tadej Pogacar continued his fairytale Tour de France with a fifth stage win to further extend his dominant lead with just one day remaining. The Slovenian, riding for UAE Team Emirates, sprinted away from defending champion Jonas Vingegaard inside
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Associated Press Jul 20, 2024, 10:06 AM ET Open Extended Reactions BASTAD, Sweden — Rafael Nadal reached his first final since the 2022 French Open by rallying to beat Duje Ajdukovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 Saturday at the clay-court Nordea Open. After needing four hours to beat 36th-ranked Mariano Navone in Friday’s quarterfinals, Nadal had a
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Getty Images Andrew Benson F1 Correspondent at Hungaroring 2 hours ago Comments Lando Norris led Oscar Piastri to a McLaren one-two ahead of Max Verstappen in an action-packed qualifying session at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Norris edged out his team-mate by 0.022 seconds and Verstappen by just 0.046secs in a session which featured changing conditions
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Brian Windhorst, ESPN Senior WriterJul 19, 2024, 05:54 PM ET Close ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Open Extended Reactions LONDON — There has been a lot of attention given this spring and summer as to whether LeBron James and Stephen Curry, who play on former
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Nick ParkinsonJul 20, 2024, 08:26 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Junto Nakatani sent out a chilling warning to his rival bantamweight champions after a body shot knocked out Vincent Astrolabio in the first round of his first defense of
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ESPN News Services Jul 19, 2024, 05:33 PM ET Open Extended Reactions INDIANAPOLIS — Caitlin Clark made her first appearance at Indianapolis Motor Speedway — on Josh Berry‘s No. 4 Ford. The rookie driver took his Stewart-Haas Racing entry the traditional 2.5-mile oval with an image of the WNBA’s rookie star plastered across the hood
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Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentJul 19, 2024, 10:58 PM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Open Extended Reactions AFC Bournemouth and United States men’s national team midfielder Tyler Adams is looking at yet another lengthy spell on the sidelines after undergoing back surgery, according to the Cherries
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