3:47 PM ET Top seed Matteo Berrettini cruised into the quarterfinals of the Antalya Open with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Dimitar Kuzmanov. The world No. 10 broke serve on five occasions to win the match in 68 minutes. Berrettini will meet Alexander Bublik for a place in the last four after he overcame Frenchman
3:11 PM ET Tottenham ran out expectedly comfortable winners over their non-league opponents, but Sunday’s game at Marine encapsulated all that is good and unique about the FA Cup. Tottenham Hotspur FC/Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images CROSBY, England — They had a glitter ball hanging from the ceiling of the away-team changing room at Marine.
Dan Lawrence‘s England debut has always been a matter of when, not if. At the age of 17, he became the third-youngest batsman to make a hundred in County Championship history, taking a strong Surrey attack for 161 at The Oval, and he has been marked out as a coming man ever since. The best
1:47 PM ET A historic drop in penalty flags helped lessen the spotlight on NFL officiating in 2020. So did the abolition of replay review for pass interference. But the arrival of postseason football has raised scrutiny on every questionable call, rule interpretation and review. No worries. We’re here for you. What follows is a
12:50 PM ET Associated Press ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin of the United States came back from match point down to beat Yulia Putintseva and reach the quarterfinals of the Abu Dhabi Open on Saturday. Kenin posted 57 unforced errors to Putintseva’s 43 but still prevailed 3-6, 7-6 (5),
10:20 AM ET UFC president Dana White is expected to meet with undefeated lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov this week in Abu Dhabi for the first time since Nurmagomedov announced his retirement in October. Nurmagomedov (29-0) is still the UFC’s undisputed 155-pound champion, even though he has stated he does not intend to fight again. White
7:40 PM ET Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns returned to the starting lineup for Saturday night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs. Towns missed the past six games with a left wrist injury suffered in a Dec. 27 win over the Utah Jazz. The Timberwolves have struggled without their star big man, losing all six
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4:12 PM ET Most top teams use the FA Cup third round to test their young players but this 2-0 win against Newcastle underlined why Arsenal need them to thrive in the Premier League. Emile Smith Rowe was a central figure in the Gunners’ revival over the festive period, during which they claimed three league
7:32 AM ET At the contractual rate of roughly $1.1 million per start, Gerrit Cole is in line to make $20 million by August, if baseball has a full season at full pay this year. So it says a lot about how slow this offseason has been that two-and-half months into this winter, there has