Month: March 2019

7:04 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Denny Hamlin overcame two penalties on pit road and won the NASCAR Cup race at Texas, where Kyle Busch missed out on the chance for a tripleheader weekend sweep and pole sitter Jimmie Johnson‘s career-worst winless streak stretched to 66 races. Hamlin led the final 12
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6:52 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Graeme McDowell won the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title since November 2015, closing with a 3-under 69 for a one-stroke victory over Chris Stroud and Mackenzie Hughes. “This is big. This is big. … It’s been
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4:47 PM ET ESPN staff Red Bull’s Christian Horner could not resist an opportunity to kick Renault while it was down after the French manufacturer suffered a cruel double retirement in the closing stages of the Bahrain Grand Prix. Christian Horner thinks it is premature to put Red Bull in the world championship conversation despite
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5:25 PM ET ESPN staff Sebastian Vettel apologised to Ferrari for the incident Sunday that ultimately cost him at shot at winning the Bahrain Grand Prix. Engine trouble might have cost him a maiden F1 win, but Charles Leclerc proved at the Bahrain Grand Prix that Ferrari has two drivers equally capable of winning the
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3:51 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Trae Young grabbed a deflected inbounds pass and made a last-second jumper to lift the Atlanta Hawks to a 136-135 overtime win over the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday. Justin Anderson had 24 points and 12 rebounds for Atlanta, and John Collins finished with 23 points and 12
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3:00 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Roger Federer became tennis’ first repeat champion of 2019 when he won his 101st career title Sunday by beating defending champion John Isner in the Miami Open final, 6-1, 6-4. Federer neutralized Isner’s big serve and won 32 of 35 points on his own serve. The
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6:26 PM ET MILWAUKEE — It’s easy to say that Milwaukee Brewers star outfielder Christian Yelich has picked up right where his MVP season left off. But he might actually be even better. Yelich tied a major league record in the first inning Sunday, drilling a 1-0 fastball from St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha
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2:34 PM ET Milwaukee Brewers star outfielder Christian Yelich has tied a major league record by homering in each of his team’s first four games to start a season. Yelich drilled a 1-0 fastball from Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha over the wall in right field Sunday afternoon for his fourth homer of the season. The
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