6:30 PM ET It’s been a tumultuous June for pitchers across baseball, and none of them has operated under a brighter spotlight than New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole. On Sunday, it took one pitch for the spotlight on Cole to brighten a little more. That pitch was a 96 mph four-seam fastball with a
6:44 PM ET Associated Press AKRON, Ohio — Steve Stricker won the Bridgestone Seniors Players Championship on Sunday at difficult Firestone for his second victory of the year and third major title. Eight strokes ahead in the third round and four in front entering the final round, Stricker closed with an even-par 70 for a
7:03 PM ET Eder Militao scored Brazil’s only goal on Sunday. Miguel Schincariol/Getty Images Brazil failed to win for the first time in 11 games but still qualified top in Group B for the quarter-finals of the Copa America after drawing 1-1 with Ecuador in Goiania on Sunday. The draw at an empty stadium in central
4:59 PM ET Belgium eliminated reigning champions Portugal with a 1-0 victory in the round of 16 at the European Championship on Sunday. Thorgan Hazard scored a sensational long-range strike at the end of the first half to propel the Belgians into the quarterfinals and send Cristiano Ronaldo & Co. home at the Estadio Olímpico
4:30 PM ET Associated Press Kevin De Bruyne walks off the pitch during Belgium’s win over Portugal on Sunday. Getty Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard were replaced in the second half of Belgium‘s 1-0 win over Portugal on Sunday in the round of 16 of the European Championship. – Euro 2020 on ESPN: Stream LIVE
4:21 PM ET Simon Cambers Britain’s Johanna Konta was withdrawn from Wimbledon on Sunday after she was deemed to be a close contact of a team member who tested positive for COVID-19. Konta, the world No 31, a Wimbledon semifinalist in 2017 and Britain’s highest-ranked woman, was removed from the draw and replaced by China’s
1:27 PM BST South Africa cancelled a Sunday training session after three unnamed Springbok players tested positive for COVID-19 on the eve on the British & Irish Lions’ departure to the country for a three-test series next month. The players had been put into isolation and a decision on further team activities would be taken
2:32 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Jeff Gordon retired in 2015 and had the conversation with Rick Hendrick that the Hall of Fame driver could pursue other ventures — broadcasting, business, travel — but one day would get the call to come home. Years later, Gordon is set to head from the
3:08 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Austin Cindric won his fourth Xfinity Series race of the season, holding off a hard-charging Ty Gibbs on a Sunday full of big hits at Pocono Raceway. Cindric, the reigning champion in NASCAR’s second-tier series, won the season opener at Daytona and added victories at Phoenix
10:00 AM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Washington Nationals right-handed pitcher Erick Fedde went on the 10-day injured list Sunday because of an oblique strain, with the move retroactive to Thursday. Fedde is 4-4 with a 3.90 ERA in 11 starts. He had thrown 21 consecutive scoreless innings before giving up five runs in four