5:51 PM ET Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Denny Hamlin has won the pole at Martinsville Speedway, where the five-time winner will attempt to lock himself into NASCAR’s championship race. Hamlin turned a lap at 97.840 mph in his Toyota from Joe Gibbs Racing to earn the top starting spot in Sunday’s playoff race. It
4:30 PM ET CHICAGO — The Los Angeles Chargers have activated left tackle Russell Okung, the team announced Saturday. Out since June after suffering a pulmonary embolism due to blood clots, Okung started the season on the non-football illness list. Okung returned to practice late last week, and after a full week of practice this
4:32 PM ET Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Todd Gilliland won his first career Truck Series race by holding off championship contender Ross Chastain in overtime at Martinsville Speedway. Gilliland passed Chastain for the lead in regulation on Saturday and had a decent cushion until an accident between Natalie Decker and Jordan Anderson brought out
4:03 PM ET Mercedes has reported Valtteri Bottas’ car is extensively damaged after he crashed heavily at the end of qualifying at the Mexican Grand Prix, raising the prospect he could start the race from the pit-lane. Bottas lost control of his car at the final corner of Q3, sliding along the wall and hitting
1:51 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday will miss Saturday’s game against the Houston Rockets with a left knee sprain but should be day-to-day in his recovery, multiple sources told ESPN. Holiday injured the knee when he drove down the lane with 5:18 left in the third quarter in Friday’s loss
2:10 PM ET South Africa’s Brandon Stone shot a round of 66 as he finished the third day of the Portugal Masters with a two-shot lead over compatriot Dean Burmester and England’s Oliver Fisher Saturday. Stone started poorly, bogeying the third hole, but then carded six birdies to jump to the top of the leaderboard
2:08 PM BST All Blacks coach Steve Hansen had no excuses or regrets as his side’s eight-year hold on the World Cup ended with a 19-7 loss to England in the semifinal in Yokohama Saturday, stating simply that his team were beaten by a better side. The 2003 champions rattled the All Blacks from the
2:04 PM ET Carlo Pamintuan The bright lights of the Octagon never appeared to be an option for Loma Lookboonmee. But the Thai fighter, born Konklak Suphisara in 1996 in the town of Buriram, knew at an early age that combat sports were nevertheless her ticket out of poverty. On Saturday at Singapore Indoor Stadium,
1:26 PM BST YOKOHAMA, Japan — This was as conclusive a win over the All Blacks as you will ever see. England shattered New Zealand’s aura and prevented them from barely firing a shot. The eventual 19-7 scoreline Saturday flattered the All Blacks. England were better in every area of the game as they put
1:26 PM ET Top seed Dominic Thiem came back from a set down to earn a 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Italy’s Matteo Berrettini Saturday to advance to his first Vienna Open final. With the home crowd behind Thiem at the Wiener Stadthalle, the 26-year-old broke Berrettini five times in the contest and became the