9:00 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN NEW YORK — After losing in the second round at Wimbledon earlier this summer, Eugenie Bouchard was bombarded with questions about her low ranking (then No. 188) and her inability to consistently win despite her previous success. She didn’t hesitate in her response. “The top 100, even 200, the difference
Month: September 2018
8:10 AM ET Mercedes believes three-car teams would be the best way to ensure young talent does not miss out an opportunity to make it to the very top of Formula One. Alongside its race drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes has Force India driver Esteban Ocon, former Sauber driver Pascal Wehrlein and Formula
9:23 AM ET Todd Frazier admits he fooled the umps into thinking he made a catch he didn’t make, but he swears he didn’t plan it. In Monday’s game against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, the Mets third baseman dove into the stands to snare a foul ball. After the tumble, he showed the umpire
Sport Australia has waded into the Football Federation Australia congress war, with CEO Kate Palmer declaring the organisation does not support governance changes proposed by a FIFA-backed working group. In a letter to the nine state federations and the A-League clubs, Palmer said it would be a “concern” to Sport Australia if all of the
Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has called on his Black Stars squad to prove that they care about playing for the nation when the West African giants face Kenya in Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. The match comes at a testing time for Ghanaian football, with the country’s domestic football activity essentially shutting down after
6:25 AM ET Sebastian Vettel does not expect Kimi Raikkonen to play a supporting role in his title campaign, saying he is happy for his Ferrari teammate to challenge him for position on track. Vettel’s championship challenge took a significant hit at last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix after a first lap collision with title rival
6:10 PM ET Times change. In 1971, the year of Thomas Bjorn’s birth, Great Britain and Ireland captain Eric Brown led a singsong on the plane home from the Ryder Cup. The cause for celebration? A five point defeat, the “closest” the visitors had ever come to an away victory. Forty-seven years later the Dane
5:37 AM BST With next year’s World Cup firmly in mind, South African coach Rassie Erasmus has drastically shuffled his resources for Saturday’s Rugby Championship clash with the Wallabies in Brisbane. The newly-installed director of rugby has made six changes to the side that lost 32-19 to Argentina last month, but stressed many had been
5:17 AM ET Fernando Alonso took part in an IndyCar test at Barber Motorsports Park on Wednesday as he weighs up whether to commit to the American racing series full-time next season. Alonso raced at the Indy 500 last year and has confirmed he will quit Formula One at the end of this year to
1:31 AM ET Associated Press DENVER — Trevor Story homered in his first three at-bats, including one projected at more than 500 feet, and the Colorado Rockies beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3 on Wednesday night. Story, an All-Star shortstop, had a chance to tie the major league record of four homers in a game