File image of Shaheen Afridi© AFP Pakistan pace bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi has been ruled out of the second Test against Sri Lanka with a knee injury, the team said Thursday. Shaheen, a left-arm quick, played a key part in the tourists’ opening win on Wednesday in Galle as he took four wickets in the
The Tour de France Femmes begins in Paris on July 24 and finishes atop La Planche des Belles Filles on July 31. While there have been variations of the event over the years until 2009, the new eight-stage race is the first time since 1989 the race has officially been held and hosted by the
7:53 AM ET Mike Coppinger Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Unlike most other professional sports, trades do not happen in boxing. Boxing promoters sign fighters to their companies and promote their fights,
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez has called for spectators involved in offences of discriminatory abuse to be banned for life from Formula 1 events. His comments, and similar ones from colleagues, follow fans being subjected to racist, sexist and homophobic abuse at the last race in Austria. Perez said: “They are not welcome here. We
Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard is one step closer to winning the 2022 Tour de France after he extended his overall lead with a stunning stage 18 victory. Defending champion Tadej Pogacar finished second, one minute and four seconds behind, after being dropped on the final climb on the Hautacam. In a brilliant act of sportsmanship earlier
11:01 AM ET What you’re about to read is pure speculation. It’s an exercise in what might happen, in trying to find logic in a game (football) that has little and a summer rite of passage (the transfer market) that often has even less. With Cristiano Ronaldo‘s future seemingly up in the air with few
Sebastian Vettel says he wants to continue in Formula 1 next season. The four-time world champion, 35, is out of contract with Aston Martin at the end of the year and there has been speculation about his future. Speaking before this weekend’s French Grand Prix, Vettel said: “I am talking to the team. There is
9:09 AM ET Former world No. 1 Venus Williams will make her singles comeback after nearly a year at the Citi Open, which begins next week in Washington, organizers said Thursday. The seven-time Grand Slam champion accepted a wild card for the July 30-Aug. 7 WTA 250 event a day after announcing she will also
Jul 21, 2022 The Shanghai Masters and three other men’s tournaments in China will not be held this year due to the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, the ATP Tour said on Thursday. China hosted the Winter Olympics under strict health protocols in February but almost every other international sporting event in the country this year has
7:00 AM ET With 201 ESPN 300 recruits committed, quite a few recruiting classes are starting to take shape and fill needs. Some highly ranked and highly sought-after players have come off the board over the past few months, making big impacts on future rosters. While some of those commitments have been defensive recruits, the
Britain’s Chris Froome has been forced to withdraw from the Tour de France after testing positive for Covid-19 before Thursday’s stage 18. The four-time champion had shown signs of a return to form as he aims to get back to full fitness after being seriously injured in a crash in 2019. Israel Premier Tech rider
7:00 AM ET The NHL offseason has featured impactful trades, surprising contracts and a few genuinely shocking moments like the biggest free agent available choosing to sign with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Some teams aced the offseason test. Other teams … didn’t. Here are the report cards for all 32 NHL teams through the first
7:00 AM ET College football roster management has always been a rather fraught affair. Between stars weighing whether to go pro, underplayed underclassmen thinking about transferring, the forever-stressful experience of both winning key recruiting battles and keeping said battles won, everyone needing to keep their grades up and so on, projecting what a roster will
5:56 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN The Philadelphia 76ers are creating a new development company that will spearhead a $1.3 billion project to build a privately funded arena in the city’s downtown, the team announced Thursday morning. While the 76ers don’t plan to be in the arena until the 2031-32 season — the season after the
9:51 PM ET ESPN News Services Veteran left-hander Dallas Keuchel has been designated for assignment by the Arizona Diamondbacks after struggling in his only four starts, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Wednesday. Keuchel had been DFA’d earlier this year by the White Sox and caught on with the Diamondbacks after being signed to a
Former India batter Wasim Jaffer wants Ruturaj Gaikwad to make his ODI debut against West Indies in the first game of three-match series at the Port of Spain in Trinidad on Friday. With captain Rohit Sharma being rested and KL Rahul still recovering from his injury, there’s no clarity as to who will accompany Dhawan
10:26 PM ET ESPN News Services The Miami Hurricanes are ditching the “turnover chain” for the 2022 season, first-year coach Mario Cristobal told the Action Network on Wednesday. “It’s not part of our culture,” Cristobal said, according to a tweet from the publication. Miami’s turnover chain is an oversized 36-inch, 2.5-kilogram, 10-karat gold chain worn
The Tour de France Femmes officially returns to cycling for the first time in 33 years on Sunday. The eight-stage race begins on Paris’ Champs-Elysees on 24 July, the same day as the men’s race concludes in the French capital. While various races equivalent to the women’s Tour were held across France until as late