6:15 PM ET Associated Press As Darlington Raceway prepares for its first of two NASCAR visits this season, track officials announced Friday they plan to fully open the grandstands for the Southern 500 on Labor Day weekend. The raceway will hold the Goodyear 400 on Sunday to limited spectators. Darlington President Kerry Tharp said that
2:09 PM ET Ryan Benoit has been removed from this weekend’s UFC card after a scary scene at weigh-ins. Benoit missed weight by 3 pounds on his second attempt Friday morning, coming in at 129 pounds for a flyweight bout in Las Vegas. He was scheduled to fight Zarrukh Adashev at UFC Fight Night on
4:17 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Canelo Alvarez hasn’t closed the door on facing his biggest rival one more time. On Thursday, Alvarez indicated he wasn’t opposed to facing Gennadiy Golovkin for a third fight after Alvarez finishes the current task of unifying the super middleweight division. “The truth is, I’m open for anything,” Alvarez
6:00 AM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — It’s not an overstatement to call quarterback Justin Fields’ arrival in Chicago the city’s most celebrated sports moment since the Cubs won the World Series in 2016. The Bears — almost universally panned for their spotty Day 1 draft record over the past decade — administered a shot
4:09 PM ET Associated Press Sofia Kenin no longer will be coached by her father, announcing just weeks before the French Open she is “putting together a new technical team.” Kenin, the Australian Open champion and French Open runner-up in 2020, wrote about the switch on Instagram on Friday. The post included a photo of
4:54 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — There was no drama on the scales ahead of Saturday’s super middleweight title fight between Canelo Alvarez and Billy Joe Saunders. Alvarez and Saunders each weighed in under the division’s 168-pound limit. Alvarez, the WBA and WBC champion, stepped on the scale at 167.4 pounds. Sanders, the WBO titlist,
Next month’s Turkish Grand Prix is under threat after the UK government put Turkey on its red travel list. UK transport secretary Grant Schapps said on Friday that red-list countries “should not be visited except in the most extreme circumstances”. F1 said it was “assessing the situation and will provide more details in the coming
2:00 PM ET Brandon Beane got a call from the NFL league office this week, a league source said, about the Buffalo Bills general manager’s comments during a radio interview about whether he would hypothetically release an unvaccinated player if it meant the team reaching a league-imposed minimum percentage of vaccinated individuals. The message the
IPL 2021: Kane Williamson replaces David Warner as SRH captain this year© BCCI/IPL Kane Williamson and three other New Zealanders on Friday flew to Maldives in a departure from their original plan, as they were not feeling comfortable staying in COVID-19 hotspot Delhi. Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Williamson, Chennai Super King’s Mitchell Santer and Royal Challenger
12:01 PM ET Associated Press MADRID — Rafael Nadal‘s bid to reach a 75th semifinal at a Masters event ended Friday with a 6-4, 6-4 loss to Alexander Zverev. The sixth-ranked German beat Nadal for the first time on clay and for the third time in a row overall. Zverev broke Nadal’s serve twice in
1:30 PM ET Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit fired a flawless eight-under-par 64 to take a three-stroke lead over compatriot Atthaya Thitikul at the halfway stage of the Honda LPGA Thailand on Friday. Patty, the joint-overnight leader with Atthaya, carded six birdies in the second round and sank a 10-foot eagle putt after a brilliant approach shot
12:18 PM ET Sid LoweSpain writer Eden Hazard has friends at Chelsea, the monster. By the end of Wednesday night, it was hard to avoid the conclusion that what most hurt wasn’t that Real Madrid had been knocked out of the Champions League, or even that they had been defeated so completely, the fact that
12:07 PM ET Alabama football coach Nick Saban is getting behind a state effort to encourage more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Saban has participated in a public service announcement that will air next week and will also feature SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, former Auburn basketball
The IPL 2021 was suspended indefinitely by the BCCI after several Covid-19 cases.© Instagram After the suspension of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 mid-season, several England county clubs have expressed interest in hosting the remainder of the season. A day later, Sri Lanka Cricket have also joined the bandwagon and shown keen interest in hosting
8:30 AM ET Smaller-school football remains unbeaten. From Saturday’s SWAC Championship through Sunday’s playoff quarterfinals, there were five FCS games last weekend. Four went down to the wire and three — Alabama A&M’s SWAC title winner over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Sam Houston’s win over defending champion North Dakota State and South Dakota State’s comeback victory over
8:00 AM ET Kelly Cohen Dan Hajducky Close Reporter/researcher Hajducky is a reporter/researcher for ESPN The Magazine. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and vehemently believes there was room for Jack on the door. We’ve all misplaced something — car keys, wallets, a W-2 from last year. But what about misplacing
6:47 AM ET The NFL draft elicits a range of strong opinions, but college coaches have a distinct viewpoint. They have seen these players up close, both in games and studying them on film, often for multiple seasons. While their job is not to project how players will fare in the NFL, they can spot
Lewis Hamilton led a Mercedes one-two in second practice at the Spanish Grand Prix as Max Verstappen failed to set a representative lap time. Hamilton was 0.139 seconds faster than team-mate Valtteri Bottas, with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in third. Verstappen made an error on his qualifying simulation run on the soft tyres and ended ninth