1:02 PM ET Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Stanford took control on the back nine of the opening two matches Wednesday and beat Texas to win the NCAA championship for the eighth time. Henry Shrimp rallied from an early 2-down deficit against Spencer Soosman, and Isaiah Salinda won four of five holes to start the
12:23 PM ET Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa has a fractured rib and is expected to miss four to six weeks, general manager Jeff Luhnow announced Wednesday. Correa was removed from Tuesday’s lineup against the Chicago Cubs because of soreness. He is hitting .295 with 11 home runs and 35 RBIs this season for the
12:05 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey has made his entire roster and future draft picks available in trade talks, a dramatic initiative with hopes of reshaping the team into a championship contender, league sources told ESPN. The possibility of trading All-NBA guard James Harden is believed to be extremely limited,
May 28, 2019 Jon Culley at Edgbaston Warwickshire 293 (Norwell 64) and 26 for 0 lead Surrey 188 (Foakes 57*, Patel 4-53) by 131 runs After scaling impressive heights last year, Surrey’s 2019 season is still at base camp. Like Somerset, who at this stage look favourites to take their title, they have yet to
11:20 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Lucie Safarova, a runner-up to Serena Williams at the French Open in 2015, has announced her retirement. Safarova, who achieved a career-best ranking of No. 5 that year, on Wednesday played her final match in Paris in the doubles draw with Dominika Cibulkova, losing to Sofia Kenin and
4:31 PM ET The biggest changes going into NASCAR this season were the new aerodynamic and engine modifications and how they would affect competition. Let’s face it, NASCAR had a competition problem, highlighted last year with lengthy margins of victory and shrinking number of lead changes and leaders per race. But the steps they have
May 23, 2019 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — BUBBA CUNNINGHAM HAD his kids over to the house in November for a family get-together. They’re all in their 20s and, because their dad is the director of athletics at North Carolina, they’re all huge Tar Heels fans, prodding for information on the future of the football program.
1:34 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — What Kliff Kingsbury is doing — going from college head coach at Texas Tech directly to the NFL as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals — isn’t new. But there’s a reason why Kingsbury is just the 12th head coach to make the jump since 2000 and why he’s
9:20 AM ET Richard Mann Hometown fighter Alexander Gustafsson is a sizable betting favorite against Anthony Smith in Saturday’s UFC Fight Night main event in Stockholm, and Gustafsson is also a clear favorite in many of the statistical comparisons between the two fighters. Smith has excelled recently despite his statistical shortcomings, though, so can he
8:20 AM ET ESPN staff The Monaco Grand Prix marked the end of Mercedes’ run of one-two finishes, but Lewis Hamilton still stood at the top of the podium after one of his most impressive performances in recent memory. Ferrari had another strange weekend, notably making a mess of Charles Leclerc’s qualifying, but Canada appears