Sep 2, 2021 The oldest adage in auto racing is also the sport’s greatest truth. Nothing solves a problem — more problems than you might think — like horsepower. As the 2021 NASCAR playoffs begin Sunday at Darlington Raceway, no one has more horsepower than Kyle Larson. One year ago, no one had bigger problems.
12:21 PM ET The Ottawa Senators have agreed to a six-year, $29.85 million contract with right winger Drake Batherson, the team announced Friday. Batherson, 23, skated in all 56 of the Senators’ games last season, ranking second on the team with 17 goals and adding 17 assists before becoming a restricted free agent. “Drake represents
Tom Latham took the innings deep but couldn’t pull it off at the end © AFP/Getty Images Before the Bangladesh tour, Tom Latham had last played a T20I in November 2017. Before the Bangladesh trip, Latham had last played a T20 on January 19, 2019, when he cracked 110 off 60 balls for Canterbury against
1:17 PM ET PITTSBURGH — After an initial 53-man roster that was short on cornerbacks, the Pittsburgh Steelers have fortified the position by acquiring Ahkello Witherspoon in a trade with the Seattle Seahawks, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday. Seattle gets a fifth-round pick in 2023 in return, sources said. Witherspoon, 26, signed a one-year,
11:19 AM ET We’ll remember the 2021 summer transfer window as the one that saw both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo move, while Kylian Mbappe and Harry Kane stayed put. And, of course, we’ll note the financial impact of the global pandemic, though it’s easier to determine that there has been an impact rather than
12:32 PM ET ESPN News Services CHICAGO — Chicago Cubs manager David Ross and president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer have tested positive for COVID-19. A spokesperson for the team said Ross and Hoyer are feeling fine and quarantining. Both are vaccinated. Bench coach Andy Green — who will run the team while Ross is
12:03 PM ET Major League Baseball has extended Trevor Bauer‘s administrative leave an eighth time for an additional week, a league official told ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez. The leave now runs through Sept. 10. The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher has been accused of sexual assault by a woman who has said Bauer choked her unconscious multiple
11:00 AM ET When NHL players signed a new collective bargaining agreement in 2020, they earned a massive win: the league agreed to allow players to participate in the 2022 and 2026 Olympic Games. NHL players, uniformly, have fought to return to the Olympics. It’s a dream for so many to be able to represent
10:50 AM ET The NHL and NHLPA have come to an agreement with the IIHF and IOC that will allow NHL players to participate in the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. The agreement does carry an opt-out clause: The NHL and NHLPA can pull out of the Olympics should COVID-19 conditions worsen, or if the
11:41 AM ET ZANDVOORT, Netherlands — If anyone needed any confirmation the Dutch Grand Prix is going to be rowdy, they got it on Friday. 1 Related Several minutes into the second practice session the Zandvoort crowd, almost at full capacity on the day F1 sets aside for two hours of practice, erupted like a