11:05 AM ET India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Dutch partner Matwe Middelkoop saved two match points but their dream run at the French Open ended with a semifinal defeat to Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer on Thursday. Bopanna and Middelkoop, seeded 16th, lost 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (8-10) to the 12th seeded pair from El Salvador
Jun 1, 2022 Paolo UggettiESPN PINE NEEDLES, North Carolina — The U.S. Women’s Open is back at the Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines for a record fourth time with a purse of $10 million — more than double last year’s purse of $4.8 million — and plenty of storylines. Between Michelle
7:49 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Muhammad Ali. Floyd Mayweather. Manny Pacquiao. Likenesses of those fistic titans peered at Devin Haney from the walls of the Top Rank Gym, where the budding star prepared for the fight of his life just days before he set off for Melbourne, Australia. That’s where Haney will
7:00 AM ET CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Over the past five years, every now and then, Mack Brown would ask Gene Chizik a version of the same question. “Are you ready to coach again?” Brown asked it four years ago, before he got back into coaching at North Carolina. At the time, Chizik told him
5:46 AM BST A special general meeting of New Zealand Rugby [NZR] in Auckland voted in favour of a $[NZ]200 million ($[US]129.42 million) private equity investment from U.S. firm Silver Lake on Thursday, the final step in the approval process for the groundbreaking deal. The deal, approved in a vote by a majority of the
5:30 AM ET World championship medallists, Amit Panghal and Shiva Thapa, claimed berths in the Indian boxing team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games (CWG) after emerging victorious in the trials, held in Patiala on Thursday. While Panghal, the 2019 world championship silver medallist, secured his place in the 51kg division, Thapa clinched the 63.5kg spot
1:18 PM ET Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne were on Wednesday named among the six nominees for the English Professional Footballers Association (PFA) Player of the Year award. De Bruyne is the current holder of the award, having won it the last two seasons, while Ronaldo won the
Lancashire 219 for 6 (Livingstone 75, Jennings 34, Vilas 34, Scrimshaw 3-45) beat Derbyshire 202 for 5 (du Plooy 59*, Reece 55, Guest 35) by 17 runs These teams arrived at Emirates Old Trafford still basking in the triumphs of yesterday evening. That, though, was rather where the similarities ended. Whereas Derbyshire’s nine-wicket hammering of
1:35 AM ET NEW YORK — The fans behind Rangers star goalie Igor Shesterkin were a sea of blue jerseys and black commemorative T-shirts during Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday. 2 Related Except for one distinct splash of neon pink, courtesy of the inflatable flamingo being waved furiously after each save
5:15 PM ET Fantasy staff Fantasy football made headlines on the baseball field during the Memorial Day weekend when Tommy Pham of the Cincinnati Reds and Joc Pederson of the San Francisco Giants had an altercation about an issue in a league they were in last season. We have since learned that Los Angeles Angels