6:24 PM ET Associated Press HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — City of Light won the $9 million Pegasus World Cup dirt race at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, running away from Breeders’ Cup Classic champion Accelerate for an emphatic victory in the final race before retirement for both horses. City of Light and Accelerate were neck-and-neck on
5:39 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Minnesota Timberwolves forward Taj Gibson has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for aggressively pursuing and directing an obscene gesture toward an official. NBA executive Kiki VanDeWeghe announced the punishment on Saturday. Gibson grew frustrated after he was called for a foul when Utah’s Joe Ingles drove
5:34 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN SAN JOSE, Calif. — Brianna Decker is getting paid after all. Decker, the U.S. women’s national team player, demonstrated the premier passing drill at the NHL All-Star skills event on Friday night. She appeared to record a time of 1:06 in the demo, which beat out the eight NHL player
4:52 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The representative for Milwaukee Bucks center Thon Maker has told management that he’d prefer the franchise find a trade to a team that would provide a larger role for the former lottery pick, league sources told ESPN. As Maker’s playing time has diminished under new coach Mike Budenholzer in the
shares Joe Root fends away a short ball © AFP Joe Root admitted that England “might have got their selection wrong” in the wake of his side’s 381-run drubbing in the first Test against West Indies, but insisted that England would not be deterred from making further bold calls in the future, as they
3:39 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox say they have a strong pitch for Manny Machado and Bryce Harper. Just don’t expect them to sign both star sluggers. With the offseason providing few answers for baseball’s superstar free agents, we shed some light on where things stand and where they’re headed.
1:15 PM ET Detroit Lions linebacker Trevor Bates was arrested in New York on Saturday. He was booked at the 115th Precinct station house in the borough of Queens for allegedly not paying cab fare, police told the New York Daily News. He refused to be fingerprinted and punched an officer in the face, the
7:19 PM ET Unlike the Edmonton Oilers, you don’t have the option to fire your fantasy hockey team’s general manager in an effort to save your season. Well, that is, unless you play in an extremely layered next-level type of league, which, quite frankly, I would like an invite to so I can participate in
12:05 PM ET Soraya Nadia McDonald MELBOURNE, Australia — Naomi Osaka, who, as of Monday, will be the No. 1 tennis player in the world, has a habit of doing extremely grown-up things — at least on the tennis court. Saturday night at the Australian Open, it was defeating Petra Kvitova in three tension-filled sets
10:17 AM ET American Bryson DeChambeau fired a four-under 68 in the third round to take a one-shot lead over defending champion Li Haotong in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic on Saturday. World no. 5 DeChambeau had two straight bogeys on the seventh and eighth holes but ended the round strongly with four birdies after