11:28 AM BST World Rugby has cancelled scheduled events in Cape Town and Singapore in this year’s Sevens Series due to “ongoing challenges” brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, officials confirmed on Friday. The series had been due to visit Singapore (October 29-30) and Cape Town (December 10-12), the latter with a Women’s Sevens Series
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Denmark’s Magnus Cort claimed his third win in this year’s Vuelta a Espana as he produced a superb sprint finish to take stage 19. EF Education-Nippo rider Cort, who also won stages six and 12, edged out breakaway companions Rui Oliveira of Portugal and American Quinn Simmons. Primoz Roglic retained the leader’s red jersey before
8:00 AM ET All of them left the Lakers. And all five of them came back to Los Angeles. One of them is back for a second time. One took a decade to return. Three of them were champions with the franchise. All of them had unfinished business in L.A. Lakers vice president of basketball
Charles Leclerc led a Ferrari one-two in Dutch Grand Prix second practice while Lewis Hamilton missed most of the session with an engine problem. Hamilton’s Mercedes stopped on track after he had done just one flying lap. He was classified 11th. Leclerc headed team-mate Carlos Sainz by 0.154 seconds. Alpine’s Esteban Ocon was third, ahead
8:23 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Two years have passed since Europe won the Solheim Cup thanks to a jaw-dropping putt by captain’s pick Suzann Pettersen. Now, on Saturday at Inverness in Toledo, Ohio, the United States is trying to get the cup back on its own turf. “With everything that as going on, there was
7:00 AM ET Exactly one month from today, Major League Baseball’s 2021 regular season will come to a close. When it does, which of the current contenders will be headed to the playoffs? Which teams will be on the outside looking in? Will the San Francisco Giants edge the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National
Alexander Albon is a contender for a return to Formula 1 with either Alfa Romeo or Williams next year, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner says. The Anglo-Thai drove for Red Bull for a season and a half in 2019 and 2020 and is the team’s reserve driver in 2021. “Alex deserves a seat in
1:06 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota star running back Mohamed Ibrahim left Thursday’s season-opening loss to No. 4 Ohio State with a lower left leg injury. Ibrahim went down on a 1-yard run late in the third quarter and appeared to be injured as he planted his left foot. He limped off the field and
7:00 AM ET The next two months are going to have a drastic impact on what happens in the UFC’s middleweight division in 2022. Right now, Israel Adesanya (21-1) remains the undisputed king of the division, and maintaining that spot is the only goal he has in the foreseeable future. Adesanya had plans to take
Virat Kohli has reached 150 million followers on Instagram.© AFP Indian skipper Virat Kohli has multiple cricketing records to his name and is one of the best players in world cricket currently. Off the field as well, Kohli is a super popular figure and has a fan following only few sportspersons can match. On Friday,
1:48 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS — When C.J. Stroud began to struggle early in his first career start as Ohio State’s quarterback, coach Ryan Day pulled the redshirt freshman aside. The fourth-ranked Buckeyes had no intention of backing off their typically aggressive game plan on offense. Day fully expected growing pains for Stroud, who didn’t even
5:38 AM BST The All Blacks may have tucked the Bledisloe back into the cabinet for a 19th year, but the Rugby Championship is only just gathering momentum. Sunday’s Test between the Wallabies and All Blacks in Perth has been a long time coming, with West Australian rugby fans twice having had the match date
1:08 AM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — A female Mexican boxer died Thursday, five days after being injured in a Montreal ring. Groupe Yvon Michel, the organizer of the boxing event, said Thursday that 18-year-old Jeanette Zacarias Zapata died from injuries sustained in a bout with Marie-Pier Houle on Saturday night at IGA stadium. Zapata
Lewis Hamilton headed title rival Max Verstappen in a bizarrely truncated first practice session at the Dutch Grand Prix. The hour-long session was interrupted for nearly 40 minutes when Sebastian Vettel’s Aston Martin stopped on track with a suspected engine failure. The car was still electrically live, delaying its recovery to the pits. Running resumed
5:00 AM ET SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The United States men’s national team experienced precisely the kind of game against El Salvador that it expected, even if it wasn’t the result — or performance — it wanted. And while the U.S walked away with something in tying 0-0 with Los Cuscatlecos, one couldn’t help
9:10 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic missed an overhead along the way to getting broken for the only time Thursday night and stared at a man in the Arthur Ashe Stadium stands who made noise during the point. After breaking right back in the next game of his second-round victory
11:58 PM ET The United States played out a hard-fought draw against El Salvador in its first match of the Octagonal round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying in San Salvador on Thursday night. – ESPN+ viewers’ guide: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, FA Cup, more Tyler Adams wore the armband for the U.S., becoming the youngest player
1:46 PM ET Mets acting general manager Zack Scott has been placed on administrative leave two days after he was arrested on a DWI charge in New York, the team announced Thursday. Scott will be on leave “until further notice,” the Mets said, adding that team president Sandy Alderson will assume the general manager’s responsibilities.