7:42 AM ET Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova has withdrawn from next week’s Rogers Cup in Toronto with a nagging forearm injury, Tennis Canada announced Friday. The 29-year-old, who won the Rogers Cup in 2012, initially injured her forearm while training in Paris ahead of the French Open and has not competed since her loss
Month: August 2019
6:57 AM ET UTEP has reinstated quarterback Kai Locksley following his June arrest in which he allegedly made a terroristic threat. The Miners announced the decision Friday, the same day they began their first practice of the season. Locksley had been suspended from the team after his arrest. He had been facing charges of driving
6:39 AM ET ESPN News Services Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Jameson Taillon needs surgery to repair a strained flexor tendon in his right forearm and has been shut down for the season. Taillon (2-3, 4.10 ERA) last pitched on May 1. The 27-year-old, who underwent Tommy John surgery in 2014, was on the injured list for
1:34 PM ET BUDAPEST, Hungary — Lewis Hamilton is keeping a close eye on Red Bull-Honda in the coming months to see if the team’s recent form is a sign of things to come. Hamilton and Mercedes have a comfortable lead in both championships, but Max Verstappen is the in-form driver on the grid and
Tobin Heath, Lindsey Horan and Carli Lloyd scored for the USWNT as the World Cup champions kicked off their victory tour with a win over Ireland. Two time World Cup winner Mia Hamm joins ESPN at halftime of the USWNT’s first Victory Tour game to discuss the legacy of the 2019 champions. PASADENA, Calif. —
12:33 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Andre Russell has ruled himself out of West Indies’ first two T20Is against India in Florida. The allrounder had only just returned to action after knee surgery but experienced “some discomfort” while playing in the Global T20 Canada and then expressed his unavailability to the West Indies selectors. However, only
12:30 AM ET The United States women kicked off their World Cup Victory Tour with a 3-0 win over Ireland in front of a rowdy crowd in Pasadena, California, on Saturday night. Fresh off a World Cup-winning campaign in France this summer — adding a fourth crown to the Americans’ trophy case — the U.S.
3:09 AM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Vince Velasquez did everything he could playing in the field for the first time since he was a kid and it still wasn’t enough. Jose Abreu hit an RBI single off outfielder Roman Quinn in the 15th inning and the Chicago White Sox beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-3
4:00 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Fifth Third Field, home to the Cincinnati Reds‘ Class A affiliate in Dayton, Ohio, is among the most electric venues in the minor league circuit, with more than 1,300 consecutive sellouts and counting. Now picture, if you will, that crowd, on a Saturday night in April, catching a glimpse
2:18 AM ET NEW YORK — Yankees first baseman Luke Voit said late Friday that he feels better now that he has had a cortisone shot to help treat a sports hernia, but he remains unsure about whether he’ll need a surgery to completely alleviate the issue. Voit and the Yankees are planning to see