Month: June 2021

8:59 PM ET ESPN News Services Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin on Saturday was named winner of the Lady Byng Trophy, a prestigious award among the NHL community given annually to the player who best combines sportsmanship, gentlemanly conduct and ability. Helping to anchor one of the league’s top defensive units, Slavin led the Hurricanes
0 Comments
11:38 AM ET Associated Press The police believe it was a targeted attack. Ian Walton/Getty Images British police are hunting for a man who fired shots from an air gun and drove into people who had gathered at a central England pub to watch the Euro 2020 clash between England and Scotland on Friday. Four people
0 Comments
4:12 PM ET In response to a statement released Friday by outgoing Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott, American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco told ESPN on Saturday that guaranteeing each Power 5 conference champion a spot in a potential 12-team playoff format would be “an enormous step in the wrong direction.” Aresco said the Pac-12 was
0 Comments
7:39 PM ET Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — Kyle Busch raced to his 100th career Xfinity Series victory Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway, where he won for the fourth time. Busch won at Nashville in the Xfinity Series in 2009 and the Truck series in 2010 and 2011, but the track closed the year he won
0 Comments
7:03 PM ET ESPN 300 cornerback Khamauri Rogers committed to Miami on Saturday, giving the Hurricanes two top-300 prospects in the 2022 class. Rogers is a 5-foot-11, 160-pound recruit out of Holmes County Central High School in Lexington, Mississippi. He is the No. 45-ranked recruit in the class and chose Miami over Mississippi State, Notre
0 Comments
3:39 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Belinda Bencic will aim to win her first title since 2019 when she takes on qualifier and first-time finalist Liudmilla Samsonova at the Berlin Open. Bencic won her semifinal against Alize Cornet 7-5, 6-4 on Saturday after converting all four of her break points and saving eight of
0 Comments
3:41 PM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Andrey Rublev reached his first grass-court final at the Halle Open on Saturday and will face Ugo Humbert. Rublev needed four match points to wrap up his 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 win over Nikoloz Basilashvili in a semifinal where both players landed fewer than half of their first
0 Comments
2:40 PM ET Associated Press Forward Jozy Altidore and goalkeeper Brad Guzan are on a preliminary 59-man United States roster for next month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup, which also includes rising stars Daryl Dike and Matthew Hoppe. Defender Reggie Cannon, and midfielders Kellyn Acosta, Sebastian Lletget and Jackson Yueill are the only holdovers from the 23-man
0 Comments