2:03 PM ET After France served up one of the dullest Formula One races in recent memory, the Red Bull Ring provided as entertaining a second practice session as you’re ever likely to see. What’s more, amid the red flags and splintered carbon fibre there were signs that Ferrari is genuinely quick in Austria. 1
12:05 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN The super-sized main event for UFC Minneapolis is official as heavyweight headliners Francis Ngannou and Junior Dos Santos both made weight Friday morning ahead of the card Saturday night. Ngannou weighed in at 255.5 pounds, while Dos Santos hit the scale at 249. The winner could be next in line
4:37 AM ET Britain’s Geraint Thomas and Colombia’s Egan Bernal will be joint leaders of Team INEOS at the 2019 Tour de France. Reigning Tour de France champion Thomas, 33, will co-lead with Bernal — who will be competing in just his second Tour de France. Dylan van Baarle is the only new rider to
10:49 AM ET SPIELBERG, Austria — Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen both crashed out of an eventful second practice session at the Austrian Grand Prix as Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc set the fastest time on Friday. The separate incidents saw both cars make contact with the wall and resulted in the session being suspended twice while
6:18 AM ET Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England — Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have been set up for a potential semifinal matchup at Wimbledon. With defending champion Novak Djokovic in the top half of the men’s bracket, the No. 2-seeded Federer and No. 3-seeded Nadal ended up placed together in the bottom half during Friday’s
2:13 PM BST Gloucester fly-half Danny Cipriani has been added to England’s 31-man provisional World Cup training squad. 1 Related The 31-year-old, who was named Premiership player of the year and RPA players’ player of the year last season after leading Gloucester to their first playoff appearance in eight years, is believed to have been
11:09 AM ET Boxing fans continue to be harassed by a seemingly bottomless pit of titles. If we were in the studio audience of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” she’d point wildly at us and shout, “You get a title! And you get a title! And you get a title!” In boxing, we have super titles,
9:40 AM ET Karolina Pliskova will play reigning Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber in the final of the Nature Valley International in Eastbourne. 1 Related The Czech world No. 3 raced through her semifinal against Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands, winning 6-1, 6-2 in under an hour on Friday to take her place in the final.
9:13 AM ET It’s easy to forget, given his meteoric rise in the sport, but Francis Ngannou never intended to get into mixed martial arts. When Ngannou migrated to France from his native Cameroon in his mid-20s, he initially got into boxing. His coaches eventually steered him toward MMA. And looking back, he says, one
7:44 PM ET Jeff Horn’s next fight has been confirmed with the former world welterweight champion set to face compatriot Michael Zerafa in Bendigo on August 31st. Horn (19-1-1, 13 KOs), 31, became a household name when he famously defeated future Hall of Famer Manny Pacquiao in 2017, but has since relinquished his championship belt