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
8:44 AM ET Chris Froome has been ruled out of the Tour de France after testing positive for COVID-19. The four-time Tour de France champion withdrew before Stage 18 of the event on Thursday. 1 Related Froome, 37, finished third on Stage 12 of this year’s edition of the Tour to Alpe d’Huez in his
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
Jul 21, 2022 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
3:39 AM ET Bayern Munich‘s new recruits Sadio Mane and Matthijs de Ligt scored on their preseason debuts as the German giants thrashed Wayne Rooney’s D.C. United side 6-2 in the first match of their United States tour on Wednesday. Senegal forward Mane, who joined the Bundesliga champions from Liverpool last month, opened the scoring
Big picture This is not an ODI World Cup year. The series between West Indies and India is not part of the World Cup Super League. Both teams finished their previous 50-over assignments less than a week ago. So what can one expect during these three ODIs? After clinching both white-ball series in England, India
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
1:50 AM BST ESPN staff An already tough week for the All Blacks has taken another turn, after vision of back-rower Ardie Savea and former Test scrum-half Justin Marshall needing to be separated emerged on social media. The video shows Ioane needing to be held back by teammates while Marshall is restrained by injured winger
8:42 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants are bringing back their classic 1980s and 1990s uniforms for a pair of legacy games this season. The jerseys will be modernized versions of what the team wore during the franchise’s first two Super Bowls. The Giants will wear blue Nike jerseys with white
Jul 19, 2022 Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Tony Clark appears likely to stay on as head of the baseball players’ association. “There’s a lot of work that needs to be done, and I am more than committed to continue to do it,” the former All-Star first baseman told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America