7:33 AM ET Pro-tennis player Dayana Yastremska has defended pictures she posted on social media of her doing blackface as “misunderstood.” The World No. 25 ranked player posted four photos of herself with half her body painted black and a caption which read “Equality.” Following criticism, Yastremska deleted the pictures and posted an explanation on
4:36 PM IST Ireland have left Stuart Thompson and Shane Getkate out while naming an expanded 21-man squad for a three-match ODI series against England this month, while David Delany is missing the trip as precaution following an injury. Mark Adair, Andy Balbirnie (capt), Curtis Campher, Peter Chase, Gareth Delany, George Dockrell, Jonathan Garth, Tyrone
2:31 AM ET Associated Press Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack has added a position to his department, bucking a trend toward athletic cuts during the coronavirus pandemic. Salatha T. Willis was named associate athletic director for diversity, culture and climate this week. He is charged with developing and implementing new ways to create an equitable
6:03 PM ET Steve KimESPN Junior featherweight contender Carlos Castro dispatched the normally durable Cesar Juarez with an impressive fourth-round TKO victory in the co-main event on the Carlos Takam-Jerry Forrest undercard inside the Top Rank” bubble” at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas on Thursday. From the very beginning Castro was simply
1:22 PM ET Manchester City will play the second leg of their Champions League round-of-16 tie against Real Madrid at the Etihad after UEFA cleared the game to take place in England, the governing body confirmed on Thursday. UEFA had been concerned about the viability of playing round-of-16 games in different countries, before the winners
Jul 5, 2020 NBA teams have begun arriving to the bubble as training camps tip off ahead of the league’s restart, which is slated for July 30 inside Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. While not all 22 teams have touched down in Orlando, many are already sharing the experiences of
11:04 PM ET Associated Press SPARTA, Ky. — Austin Cindric answered the nagging question of when he’ll finally conquer an oval. In fact, he did it so well at Kentucky Speedway that the issue now is whether an encore is possible. Cindric won the first of two NASCAR Xfinity Series races at Kentucky this week,
6:18 PM ET Steve KimESPN Shakur Stevenson is vacating the WBO featherweight world title to move up to the junior lightweight division. “We’re moving on up … We’re getting all the belts, and everyone at 130 (pounds) can get it,” Antonio Leonard, who co-promotes Stevenson, told ESPN on Thursday. Stevenson, 23, won the vacant featherweight
9:54 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Cody Bellinger is healthy, his mind is right and he’s ready for whatever baseball’s shortened 60-game season brings. Bellinger is looking to pick up where he left off after a stellar performance for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2019. The reigning National League MVP batted .305 with
1:24 AM IST It’s a funny thing, given that he spent a fair bit of the afternoon sitting on his hotel room balcony as one of this Test’s very few spectators, but Stuart Broad may well have had the best day of any of England’s bowlers. For while James Anderson, Jofra Archer and Mark Wood