7:00 AM ET BOSTON — Fenway Park DJ Kahleil Blair stares down onto the field at Fenway Park on Tuesday night, watching the Boston Red Sox host the Toronto Blue Jays, waiting. Perched in front of a Mac with QLab software loaded up with songs like “Levitating” by Dua Lipa and “Fireflies” by Owl City,
The oversized snowflakes fell softly and silently, settling among the pines like a picturesque Christmas scene. By the roadside, spectators in heavy winter coats watched team cars and motorbikes struggle up one of Liege-Bastogne-Liege’s countless climbs, tyres spinning in the slush as they pursued one man on a bike. It was April 1980 and Bernard
2:43 PM ET Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker is likely to miss Games 3 and 4 against the New Orleans Pelicans with a mild right hamstring strain, but he hasn’t been ruled out for the rest of the opening-round Western Conference series, sources told ESPN. The Suns were still evaluating results of an MRI on
6:21 PM ET LONDON — One is an academy graduate without a Premier League goal to his name all season, the other is a £97.5million striker signed to win his team the title. Both are out of favour and may well be playing their football at different clubs next season after publicly voicing concerns about
12:51 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For the past few months, the San Francisco 49ers have repeatedly said they’d like to keep receiver Deebo Samuel for a long time. On Wednesday, it became clear that Samuel and the Niners don’t quite see things the same way. Samuel, who is entering the final year of
3:05 PM ET Players from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year. The decision was announced Wednesday. The third Slam of the year became the first to ban players from those countries, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Belarus’ close allyship to Russian president Vladimir Putin. The
Venue: Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Glasgow Dates: 21-24 April Coverage: Watch on BBC Sport website & app Katie Archibald believes her “B plus game” is still enough to be competitive at this week’s Track Nations Cup event. The three-time Olympic medallist injured her back six weeks ago and will compete in front of a home
2:40 PM ET Associated Press Pebble Beach is the third course to become an anchor site for the U.S. Open, with the USGA announcing Wednesday four U.S. Opens and four U.S. Women’s Opens over the next 26 years. Pebble Beach joins Pinehurst No. 2 and Oakmont Country Club as anchor sites, a strategy that allows
3:32 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Canelo Alvarez is training in San Diego for a second title fight at 175 pounds, a May 7 meeting against Dmitry Bivol in Las Vegas, but his second fight of 2022 is already planned. If Alvarez prevails, as expected, he’ll meet his bitter rival, Gennadiy Golovkin, in a trilogy matchup
British Olympic gold medallist Katie Archibald says female and transgender athletes have been “let down” by inclusion policies in sport. Archibald, who won the madison at Tokyo 2020, is the first British cyclist to speak publicly about transgender athletes taking part in women’s races. Transgender athletes must be welcomed into sport but without “sacrificing fairness”,
Riders and staff at the Russian Gazprom-Rusvelo pro cycling team say they feel “alone” and “cancelled” after being banned in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Cycling’s governing body the UCI revoked the licences of Russian and Belarusian teams in March. More than 55 personnel have been left without pay and many feel mistreated. “We
IPL 2022: DC skipper Rishabh Pant was delighted after the win over PBKS.© BCCI/IPL A sixth Covid positive case in the Delhi Capitals camp on the morning of the game created a lot of confusion and nervousness but the team made a conscious effort to shut out the outside noise and focus on the match,
10:28 AM ET Boxing management company MTK Global has announced that it will cease global operations, saying it has faced “unprecedented” levels of scrutiny since the United States’ decision to sanction alleged crime boss Daniel Kinahan. MTK Global was founded by Kinahan in 2012 — then called MGM — but he said he sold it
12:28 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LONDON — When they finally faced off for the first time after years of trading fighting words, Tyson Fury tickled Dillian Whyte with both hands as the pair of big men erupted in laughter. Until last week’s media conference call, Whyte refused to promote Saturday’s heavyweight title fight before 94,000-plus
10:53 AM ET Associated Press ROME — Five-time champion Novak Djokovic can come to Rome and play at the Italian Open next month even if he is still not vaccinated against the coronavirus, the president of the Italian Tennis Federation said Wednesday. “The rules regarding players’ participation are established by the government and the ATP,”
9:35 AM ET The Reds are upset with Padres slugger Luke Voit for his collision at home plate Tuesday that left Cincinnati catcher Tyler Stephenson with a concussion. “The way his hands hit him, it was dirty as f—,” Reds outfielder Tommy Pham told reporters. “I don’t like it at all. The way [Voit’s] hands
6:35 AM ET It’s time for one of my favorite annual traditions. After reading dozens of NFL mock drafts without a single trade in sight, I’m compelled to go way too far in the opposite direction. I present the 2022 mock draft of trades, where I’ll provide a plausible (to me) swap for each of
9:00 AM ET Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the collapse of the European Super League. The most revolutionary project in the history of the club game started to formally unravel when Chelsea issued a statement that they would be withdrawing. Other clubs soon followed suit — some of them adding very