Month: June 2020

8:00 AM ET espnW Staff Venus Williams was just a teen when she said it. She has spent the next 23 years proving it. “Everything’s different about me. Just face the facts.” Those words came before her powerful and athletic game led her to the No. 1 ranking in women’s tennis. They came before she
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7:00 AM ET The 2021 draft class is pretty solid at the top, with an SEC-heavy flavor and players with whom scouts have multiple years of high-level history. This is subject to change, even later today, as the first event of the summer, Perfect Game National, is being held in Hoover, Alabama, and features most
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3:54 AM ET For all intents and purposes, the Bundesliga race ended with a chip shot. On May 26, Joshua Kimmich popped the ball over both the Borussia Dortmund defense and their goalkeeper, Roman Burki, and that was pretty much that. Bayern Munich beat Dortmund 1-0 and extended its league lead to seven points with
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5:41 AM ET The all-electric Formula E series will hold six races in nine days at Berlin’s former Tempelhof airport in order to finish a season interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, organisers said on Wednesday. All the races, on Aug. 5-6, 8-9 and 12-13, will be held without spectators. “We’re heading to Berlin Tempelhof, a
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5:00 AM ET Adriana Garcia Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Leganes coach Javier Aguirre was sent off during his team’s 2-0 loss at Barcelona on Tuesday for “imitating the sound of the whistle” to confuse players. Aguirre had been warned by officials earlier in the game to stop imitating the whistle before being handed
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3:08 AM ET United States international Crystal Dunn said she was “scared” to kneel alongside Megan Rapinoe when her teammate protested racism and police brutality in 2016. Rapinoe knelt prior to a game against Thailand that year in a bid to show solidarity with then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Dunn said that Rapinoe told
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