2:54 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Atlanta on Sunday for the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500. Brad Keselowski took his second checkered flag of the season last Sunday in Bristol, Tennessee, when the leaders crashed in front of him with a lap to go. Who will win Sunday’s event
8:43 PM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Michael Holding, the broadcaster and former West Indies fast bowler, has said the decisions of Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmyer and Keemo Paul to opt out of touring England were “unfortunate”, if understandable because of concerns over the Covid-19 situation in the UK. Earlier this week, West Indies announced a 25-man
10:40 PM ET NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant has purchased a minority stake in Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union, according to a report in Sports Business Daily. SBD reports that Durant’s stake is between 1% and 5%. Durant joins the Houston Rockets‘ James Harden in owning a small piece of MLS teams.
6:58 AM ET Associated Press MOSCOW — Russia hired Valery Bragin as coach of the men’s national hockey team on Friday as it gears up to defend its Olympic title in 2022. Bragin moves up from his longtime role in charge of the Russian under-20 team, which he led to the silver medal at this
8:36 AM BST The Gallagher Premiership will aim to restart the season on Aug. 15, it announced on Friday. The league was originally scheduled to return on April 24 but has since been suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus crisis. Last week, the UK government gave permission for elite sport to return behind closed doors
7:01 AM ET German tennis great Boris Becker, who previously worked with reigning world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, has not ruled out a return to coaching, the six-times Grand Slam champion said. During his stint with Becker, Djokovic won six Grand Slam titles. After they parted ways, Becker was named by the German tennis federation
Jun 4, 2020 Motor racing’s all-female W Series canceled its 2020 season on Thursday due to the coronavirus pandemic but promised to return next year with at least two support races on the Formula One calendar. The series, which started last year, had been due to award points toward a Formula One superlicence for the
6:12 AM ET After Covid-19 lockdown and months of virtual racing, McLaren’s Lando Norris has got behind the wheel for real by taking a Formula Three car for a spin at Silverstone. 1 Related The 20-year-old Briton linked up with his old Carlin team this week as he prepared for the much-delayed season to start
7:16 AM ET In the latest episode of the ESPN F1 Podcast, Alexis Nunes is joined by F1 journalists Laurence Edmondson and Nate Saunders to look back at the most explosive F1 rivalry of recent years. Listen to full-length podcast by clicking here Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were teammates at Mercedes between 2013 and
2:57 PM IST A week ago, Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison announced that the 28-year-old system of state and territory leaders meeting twice every year with the federal government was going to be scrapped. It has been replaced by more regular contact that emerged out of the Covid-19 pandemic: fortnightly or monthly “national cabinet” video