6:07 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Ninth-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland opened play at the Volvo Car Open with a 6-3, 6-0 victory over Australia’s Destanee Aiava on Monday at the WTA’s first clay-court event of the season. Other seeded players winning were 10th-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, 13th-seeded Sofia Kenin of the
6:01 PM ET BEREA, Ohio — Jarvis Landry cried. Baker Mayfield started screaming. The subject of the emotions sat between Landry and Mayfield at a podium on Monday: receiver Odell Beckham Jr., whose acquisition via trade electrified the city of Cleveland and the Cleveland Browns. To Beckham, the trade was initially a shock to the
5:04 PM ET Former UFC heavyweight champion Josh Barnett signed with Bellator MMA on Monday following two and a half years away from the sport. Barnett, 41, last fought in the main event of a UFC Fight Night in September 2016, submitting fellow ex-champ Andrei Arlovski. Three months later, however, his career was sidetracked when
2:44 PM BST Ireland flanker Dan Leavy will miss this year’s Rugby World Cup in Japan after he was ruled out of the rest of the season with a “complex” knee ligament injury, his club Leinster said on Monday. Leavy suffered the injury during Leinster’s 21-18 Champions Cup quarterfinal victory over Ulster on Saturday after
2:32 PM BST The Stormers have lost key Springboks forwards Pieter-Steph du Toit and Eben Etzebeth from the remaining two matches of their month-long Super Rugby trip to Australia and New Zealand, the team announced on Monday. Du Toit is returning to Cape Town for the birth of his first child, while a calf injury
1:01 PM BST Bulls head coach Pote Human has extended his contract with the Super Rugby franchise for another year, with an option to renew. Human was something of a surprise appointment after the resignation of John Mitchell late last year, with Bulls and Springboks legend Victor Matfield reportedly having been the preferred candidate, but
12:52 PM ET John Parry, who led the seven-member officiating crew for Super Bowl LIII, is retiring after 19 seasons as an NFL official. The NFL made the announcement Monday in a tweet written by Al Riveron, the league’s head of officiating. “Referee John Parry has announced his retirement after 19 seasons & 3 Super
12:31 PM ET For Tiger Woods, a trip to Augusta National is expected this week, perhaps the disappointment by then having dissipated after a frustrating end to the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. He said it would take a few days to shake the sting of defeat. Right now, there’s little time to waste. The Masters
Apr 2, 2019 Blues winger Tanielu Tele’a, Sharks hooker Akker van der Merwe and Bulls hooker have each received a heavy ban, after Super Rugby’s governing body, SANZAAR, announced sanctions handed down by their Foul Play Review Committee . Tele’a was banned for four weeks after he pleaded guilty to a charge of tackling a
12:27 PM ET The May 11 edition of Top Rank Boxing on ESPN will feature a pair of rematches with challengers looking to regain the world titles from the men who defeated them. Top Rank announced on Monday that a card that was expected has been finalized and will feature rematches between junior lightweight world