Dates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8 Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button and online; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sports Extra and Sounds; live text and video clips on BBC Sport website and app. British cyclist Matt Walls’ superb Olympic debut continued as he won a
Month: August 2021
A strong final lap from Team GB’s Matt Walls and Ethan Hayter helps them win silver in the men’s madison at Tokyo 2020. Watch live coverage of Tokyo 2020 on BBC One, BBC Two, the BBC Sport website, app and BBC iPlayer COVERAGE DETAILS: Tokyo Olympics on BBC TV, radio and online Available to UK
12:30 AM ET SAITAMA, Japan — Kevin Durant has had some wonderful days in his career, but there’s never been one like this green and gold Saturday in Japan. First there was a new $198 million contract locked in with the Brooklyn Nets. Then the pride of Seat Pleasant, Md., extended his legendary status as
1:26 AM ET ESPN staff India’s Aditi Ashok finished 15 under par with a total score of 269 at the end of the fourth and final round of the golf women’s individual stroke play event at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, missing out on a first ever Olympic medal for India in golf. Diksha Dagar,
12:49 AM ET LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers have loaded up for the stretch run, but their roster is still evolving. On Friday afternoon, they activated one of their newest additions, Trea Turner, and worked him out at the relatively new position of second base. Meanwhile, one of their biggest stars, Cody Bellinger,
11:30 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Jenson Brooksby wasn’t even supposed to play in the Citi Open at all. Now the kid’s in the final four of his first ATP 500 event. Brooksby beat 11th-seeded John Millman of Australia 6-1, 6-2 in just 67 minutes on Friday at the hard-court tournament, making the 20-year-old
7:32 PM ET 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 Michael Conlan increased his world title options with a unanimous points victory over TJ Doheny for the WBA interim featherweight belt in Belfast, Northern
4:51 PM ET Clemson wide receiver Justyn Ross has been medically cleared to play this season, coach Dabo Swinney said Friday. Despite that clearance, Ross must wait on his return to full-contact practice a little bit longer as he sits out the next week due to COVID-19 protocols. Ross has been out since March 2020
7:57 AM ET Paris Saint-Germain have made contact with Lionel Messi over a potential move, sources have told ESPN, and the former Barcelona star’s arrival could have an impact on the futures of Kylian Mbappe and Paul Pogba. PSG reached out to Messi on Thursday following the unexpected announcement from Barca that he would not
5:35 PM ET Oakland Athletics outfielder Ramon Laureano was suspended 80 games without pay by Major League Baseball on Friday after testing positive for an anabolic steroid. MLB said Laureano, a 27-year-old who is in his fourth season with the A’s, tested positive for Nandrolone, a performance-enhancing drug. Laureano denied that he knowingly took the
4:03 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Kevin Durant plans to sign a four-year, $198 million maximum contract extension with the Brooklyn Nets sometime after he becomes eligible Saturday, his longtime business manager and co-founder of 35 Ventures and Boardroom, Rich Kleiman, told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Durant is expected to decline his 2022-23 player option and extend
11:15 AM ET HOUSTON – Everything is bigger in Texas – including this weekend’s super-sized UFC main event. Derrick Lewis and Ciryl Gane both weighed in successfully Friday morning for their UFC interim heavyweight title bout. Lewis weighed 264.5 pounds and Gane came in at 247. The two men will meet Saturday night in the
2:59 PM ET In a press conference on Friday, Barcelona president Joan Laporta reiterated what the club had announced on their website Thursday: after 21 years, Lionel Messi would not be returning to the club. You can read about the background here, but Laporta doubled down on blaming LaLiga’s financial restrictions and the disastrous finances
4:36 PM ET UL-Monroe coach Terry Bowden has left the team to be with his father, Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden, who has end-stage pancreatic cancer. The team confirmed Terry Bowden traveled Thursday to Tallahassee, Florida. Offensive coordinator Rich Rodriguez, the former head coach at West Virginia, Michigan and Arizona, is leading the team
4:16 PM ET Associated Press EDMONTON, Alberta — The Edmonton Oilers on Friday signed defenseman Darnell Nurse to an eight-year contract extension. The deal has an average annual value of $9.25 million and will begin in the 2022-23 season. The 26-year-old alternate captain appeared in all 56 games for the Oilers during the past pandemic-shortened
2:46 PM ET Texas A&M defensive lineman McKinnley Jackson has been suspended by the team after he was arrested Thursday on two drug charges, including possession of a controlled substance, a second-degree felony. Jackson also was charged with one misdemeanor count of possession of marijuana under 2 ounces. He was released from the Brazos County
3:38 PM ET Oklahoma added an ESPN Junior 300 commitment to its 2023 class on Friday when tight end Luke Hasz chose to the Sooners. Hasz had a top list that included Alabama, Arkansas, LSU, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and TCU. He’s the No. 54 ranked recruit in the 2023 class and the
3:00 PM ET ESPN staff With the first preseason game in the books, the other 30 NFL teams at 2021 training camps are gearing up for the first full slate of games, starting next Thursday. Friday was a busy day in the league, with two first-round quarterbacks from the 2018 NFL draft making news, a
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