9:01 AM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Twenty years after playing Royal Portrush for the first time as a 10th birthday present from his father, Rory McIlroy is trying to fully grasp the reality of a tiny country hosting a major championship so near his boyhood home, while also figuring out how to win it.
8:39 AM ET LONDON — Welcome to the secret season, the post-Wimbledon return to the clay courts — a segment embraced some years ago by both tours partly to protect the health of the players. The prospect of moving from cushiony grass to punishing hard courts immediately after Wimbledon and staying on them through the
8:10 AM ET PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — The Women’s British Open is getting a larger purse and possibly a new name, but women golfers are still going to be earning considerably less than men playing in the Open Championship for the foreseeable future. The purse for the 148th Open Championship at Royal Portrush Golf Club
Herculez Gomez explains why the new Leagues Cup is a first step toward more direct competition between MLS and Liga MX. MEXICO CITY — Club America coach Miguel Herrera believes the only Mexican player with more talent than his new forward Giovani dos Santos is LAFC’s Carlos Vela. The former national team manager was asked
7:00 AM ET Danyal Rasool In what may yet be the first of several departures in the PCB’s coaching and management set-up, Inzamam-ul-Haq is set to leave his post of chief selector once his contract ends at the end of this month. Addressing the media at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Inzamam said he would
After a turbulent period which saw Algeria employ seven coaches in three years, it has taken Djamel Belmadi less than one year to restore order and turn a dispirited squad into finalists at the Africa Cup of Nations. Although he had only coached in Qatar before taking the job, Belmadi has lifted the Desert Foxes
5:27 AM ET Rich Energy, the energy drinks company that sponsors the Haas F1 team, has renamed itself Lightning Volt and split ways with former CEO William Storey. Doubt was cast over the future of the title sponsorship deal ahead of the British Grand Prix when Rich Energy’s Twitter account claimed the company had terminated
2:24 AM ET Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Albert Pujols hit a bases-clearing double during the Angels’ six-run first inning, and Los Angeles remained unbeaten in five games since the All-Star break with a 7-2 victory over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night. Jake Marisnick was drilled between the shoulder blades by Angels reliever Noe
8:48 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN As Zion Williamson continues to delay his expected landmark shoe-deal decision, the rest of the 2019 NBA rookie class has been stalled. A majority of the 2019 first-round picks entered summer league without having inked a shoe deal, allowing for a variety of lesser-known players to unexpectedly make their mark