4:28 PM ET Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke and South Africa’s James Kingston carded an opening-round 65 to share the lead at The Senior Open on Thursday. Clarke failed to make the cut at last week’s 149th Open at Royal St. George’s, but he got off to a quick start at the Sunningdale Old Course in
Report Originals fall short as Sunil Narine’s variations stifle chase on used surface Oval Invincibles 145 for 8 (Billings 49) beat Manchester Originals 136 for 7 (Brathwaite 37) by nine runs Oval Invincibles emulated their women’s team on Wednesday’s opening night of the Hundred, as they scrapped a route to victory in the men’s curtain-raiser
3:57 PM ET ESPN 300 running back Branson Robinson committed to Georgia on Thursday, picking the Bulldogs over Tennessee, Alabama, Clemson and other top programs. Robinson is the No. 20-ranked prospect overall and the No. 2 running back in the Class of 2022. A 5-foot-10, 220-pound back from Germantown High School in Madison, Mississippi, Robinson
3:43 PM ET If Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC, it would break a long-standing “gentlemen’s agreement” between SEC schools that gives conference members “absolute veto power” over the addition of another school from their state, according to a former Texas A&M official. R. Bowen Loftin, who helped steer the Aggies into the SEC in
2:43 PM ET It won’t go down as Wayne Gretzky to the Kings, but the Seattle Kraken did make history with their first trade Thursday after the expansion draft. They dealt forward Tyler Pitlick to the Calgary Flames for a fourth-round pick in the 2022 NHL draft. Pitlick, 29, skated in 38 games for Arizona
3:00 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Forward Barclay Goodrow, who just finished helping the Tampa Bay Lightning win consecutive Stanley Cups, has signed a six-year contract with the New York Rangers. General manager Chris Drury announced the signing Thursday, less than a week after acquiring the rights to the unrestricted free agent
3:01 PM ET Associated Press Chicago Blackhawks executive Stan Bowman pledged Thursday to cooperate with an investigation into allegations that an assistant coach sexually assaulted two players in 2010. The team’s president of hockey operations and general manager refused to answer a question about a meeting concerning the allegations 11 years ago that he was
2:22 PM ET Associated Press EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Thailand’s Pajaree Anannarukarn and teenage American Yealimi Noh posted 6-under 65s to share the first-round lead at the Evian Championship on Thursday. Noh’s day began perfectly when she carded an eagle on the first hole. Her momentum was checked by a bogey on No. 4, but she
11:09 AM ET Sid LoweSpain writer “Anything can happen in football,” said the Atletico Madrid president, Enrique Cerezo. Even Barcelona following up their decision to let a striker go to Atletico Madrid for free, pay a chunk of his salary and help them win the league by… well, letting a striker go to Atletico Madrid
3:08 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN Free-agent linebacker Mychal Kendricks was sentenced Thursday to one day in jail, three years of probation and 300 hours of community service as a result of his 2018 guilty plea to insider trading charges. Kendricks’ agent, Doug Hendrickson, told ESPN that the linebacker is serving his one-day jail sentence Thursday.