3:53 PM ET SILVERSTONE, U.K. — On the face of it, normal service was resumed during Friday practice at Silverstone. Two weeks after struggling with cooling issues in Austria, Mercedes returned to the top of the timesheets on Friday with its drivers split by less than a tenth of a second. The faster of the
4:07 PM ET Dan Rafael Close ESPN Senior Writer 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA Today Steve Kim Ryota Murata regained the WBA “regular” middleweight title with a dominant performance against Rob Brant at Edion Arena in Osaka, Japan, on Friday.
3:49 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The St. Louis Blues‘ Stanley Cup championship run had an ubiquitous soundtrack to it: Laura Branigan’s 1982 disco classic “Gloria,” which became their postgame victory song, while “Play Gloria!” became a rallying cry found on T-shirts, hats and other trinkets sold inside and outside the arena during the postseason. The
1:43 PM ET SILVERSTONE, U.K. — Haas driver Romain Grosjean refused to give any details which might have explained his bizarre pit-lane crash at the start of opening practice for the British Grand Prix. 1 Related Haas has tried something different with Grosjean’s car this weekend, taking the unusual step of reverting back to the
1:48 PM BST Sam Cane will lead the All Blacks in their opening Rugby Championship match against Argentina next week in Buenos Aires, continuing the loose forward’s remarkable return from a broken neck. Regular captain Kieran Read and his deputy Sam Whitelock are both staying back in New Zealand to prepare for the July 27
12:57 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN The UFC Sacramento women’s bantamweight main event is locked in. Germaine de Randamie and Aspen Ladd successfully made weight Friday morning. De Randamie, the former UFC women’s featherweight champion, hit the bantamweight limit of 136 pounds, and Ladd made 135 pounds on the mark. The two fighters will compete in
12:54 PM ET The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Flyers president Paul Holmgren has stepped down to become a senior adviser for the franchise. General manager Chuck Fletcher becomes president of hockey operations in a related move. Fletcher reports directly to Comcast Spectacor Chairman and CEO Dave Scott. Holmgren has been a Flyers player, assistant
1:24 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff It was a delivery that not only claimed Australia’s fifth wicket, but confirmed the sense that England were on their way to the World Cup final. Adil Rashid‘s googly to trap Marcus Stoinis lbw was a fine example of England’s legspinner going about his craft as well as an indication
10:59 PM ET It’s Russell Westbrook Day. It’s Russell Westbrook Day every day in Oklahoma City, by a mayoral decree signed in 2017 by then-Mayor Mick Cornett after Westbrook re-upped with a five-year, $205 million extension. It was Russell Westbrook Day on July 6, when the Oklahoma City Thunder shockingly traded Paul George to the
12:18 PM ET Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen won the seventh stage of the Tour de France in a bunch sprint after a pancake-flat 230 km ride from Belfort on Friday. The Jumbo-Visma rider beat Australian Caleb Ewan of Lotto Soudal and Slovak Peter Sagan of Bora Hansgrohe into second and third, respectively. It was Groenewegen’s fourth