1:01 PM ET Ecuador eased past World Cup debutants Qatar 2-0 on Sunday with two goals from veteran striker Enner Valencia in the first opening-game defeat for a host nation in the tournament’s history. Valencia scored an early penalty and added a well-taken 31st-minute header to give the South Americans a commanding first-half lead as
5:32 AM ET ABU DHABI — Sebastian Vettel organised a track run on Saturday evening at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to say farewell to the paddock ahead of the final race of his career. The four-time champion announced his retirement at the Hungarian Grand Prix this year, with Abu Dhabi marking his 299th and
Nov 18, 2022 Formula One has confirmed details of a new all-woman racing series, called F1 Academy, which aims to provide a platform for women drivers to progress their careers towards racing’s top championship. F1 has made clear the new series is not being pitched as a rival to the existing all-woman W Series, which
Adelaide Strikers 4 for 144 (Wolvaardt 75*, Darlington 2-36) beat Sydney Thunder 118 (Beaumont 37, Schutt 6-19) by 26 runs Megan Schutt became the first bowler in WBBL history to claim six wickets in a match while Laura Wolvaardt produced a classy 75 not out to help Adelaide Strikers sew up second spot and a
4:23 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Emerging Philadelphia 76ers star Tyrese Maxey suffered a small fracture in his left foot during Friday night’s 110-102 win over the Milwaukee Bucks that will cause him to miss the next three to four weeks, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. After X-rays came back negative Friday, an MRI Saturday revealed
9:43 AM ET Associated Press Rory McIlroy finished the year as Europe’s No. 1-ranked golfer for the fourth time — and first since 2015 — despite Jon Rahm winning the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai on Sunday. The Spaniard’s two-shot victory over England’s Tyrrell Hatton and Sweden’s Alex Noren was his third in six
2:31 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN PASADENA, Calif. — All season long, USC coach Lincoln Riley has made it a point — after a win, a loss, a practice — to mention where the team was just a year ago as compared with where it is now. Even after USC lost at Utah by one point
5:44 AM ET ABU DHABI — American driver Logan Sargeant has secured a place on the Formula One grid with Williams next year after finishing fourth in the Formula 2 championship and gaining enough points to earn an F1 superlicence. A superlicence is required to race in F1 and earned via a points system, with
5:00 AM ET The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is a tournament like no other in that it starts just a week after the domestic season was put on pause. 2 Related Unsurprisingly, that has meant a host of injury issues, given that a three-week issue can rule a player out of the World Cup
Batter Shweta Sehrawat will lead India Under-19 women against New Zealand Under-19 women in a series of five T20Is in Mumbai from November 27 to December 6. The series is part of India’s build-up towards the inaugural women’s Under-19 World Cup (T20 format) to be played in Bangladesh in January 2023. Sehrawat, a top-order batter,