9:17 PM ET Associated Press NAPA, Calif. — Brian Stuard closed with a scrambling birdie for a 6-under 66 and a share of the Safeway Open lead Saturday with James Hahn and Cameron Percy. On a day when eight players held or shared the lead, the trio of Stuard, Hahn and Percy emerged in front
6:58 PM IST Big Picture There was once a time when Gary Lineker’s famous football aphorism – “Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end the Germans win” – could be transposed almost directly across to cricket and Australia. And while they may have fallen some way since the green-and-golden era
8:10 PM ET The hazy, orange skies hanging above cities in the Western United States this week have cast another layer of pall over an already unsettled sports world. San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan described the scene at practice this week as looking like an “apocalyptic state.” Experts in climate science and epidemiology say
5:59 PM ET Houston and Memphis‘ American Athletic Conference opener, scheduled for Sept. 18, has been postponed, the league announced Saturday. The decision was made a day after Memphis paused football activities because of issues related to COVID-19. The Tigers halted because a “significant number of individuals” inside the program were placed into quarantine due
7:55 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Diede De Groot of the Netherlands won the US Open women’s wheelchair singles title, beating Yui Kamiji of Japan 6-3, 6-3. The No. 1 seed took advantage of an opportunity it appeared she and the other players wouldn’t have. The U.S. Tennis Association originally planned to scrap
6:32 PM ET Steve KimESPN Nine months after suffering the only loss of his career, Egidijus Kavaliauskas returns to the ring to face Mikael Zewski in a 10-round welterweight battle that headlines a Top Rank card at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas on Saturday (ESPN+, 7:30 p.m. ET). Kavaliauskas (21-1-1, 17 KOs)
11:55 PM ET After finding himself in a flurry of criticism following his Game 4 postgame comments, Denver Nuggets rookie Michael Porter Jr. stepped up in Game 5 on Friday night to hit the biggest shot of the game, playing a key part in forcing a Game 6 against the LA Clippers. With the Nuggets
6:54 PM ET Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Brooke Henderson tied a Mission Hills record with a 30 on the front nine and did just enough the rest of the round Saturday for a 7-under 65 and a share of the lead with Nelly Korda in the ANA Inspiration. Henderson started the weekend six
8:00 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. The Houston Astros have more pressing issues than their 2017 misdeeds. While their cheating scandal will again be part of the narrative when they face the Los Angeles Dodgers this weekend, the reality of 2020 is the Astros are
5:02 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Justin Allgaier didn’t panic when a late caution made a more than nine-second lead evaporate. The way he figured, he’d pulled away once and could do it again. Allgaier grabbed control again on a restart with 13 laps to go to complete a sweep of a NASCAR