3:12 PM ET The SEC has pushed back the first allowable start of football practice from this Friday to August 17, the conference announced on Tuesday. The change comes after the conference approved a 10-game, conference-only schedule last week that aims to kick off the season on September 26 rather than the original start date
Month: August 2020
1:34 PM ET Associated Press PALERMO, Sicily — Slovenian qualifier Kaja Juvan upset second-seeded Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 Tuesday in the first round of the Palermo Ladies Open, the first official WTA event since March. Vondrousova won the first set in just 29 minutes and then came from 4-0 down
12:40 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Leavine Family Racing has sold its NASCAR team but will finish the season with driver Christopher Bell. Team owner Bob Leavine made the announcement Tuesday, saying he could not risk his 41-year-old construction business by continuing to fund the team. Leavine is the second team owner to
1:43 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Chip Ganassi Racing has made a crew chief change for the No. 42 driven by Matt Kenseth, with engineer Phil Surgen taking over for the remainder of the season. Surgen has been with the Ganassi organization since 2016. He replaces Chad Johnston, who had been the crew
1:29 PM ET The tee times and featured groups for the first two rounds of the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park: Featured groups on ESPN+ All times ET ThursdayGroup 111:33 a.m.Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas4:58 p.m.Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia Group 211:22 a.m.Jordan Spieth, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose4:47 p.m.Rickie Fowler, Bryson DeChambeau,
11:31 PM IST ECB Reporters Network Leicestershire 409 for 8 (Slater 172, Ackermann 94) and 150 for 3 (Ackermann 73*) beat Lancashire 322 (Vilas 90, Croft 63) and 236 (Davies 54, Croft 52*, Mike 4-39) by seven wickets Captain Colin Ackermann led the charge as unfancied Leicestershire completed a sensational seven-wicket victory with just eight
11:40 AM ET The Sun Belt has approved a football schedule that includes eight league games and up to four nonleague games, set to begin Labor Day weekend and possibly sooner. The league on Tuesday outlined its plan, saying in a prepared statement, “We believe this timetable will allow for the healthy integration of the
10:29 AM ET Combat sports are among those that have returned post-coronavirus, but there’s nothing like a good ol’ baseball brawl. One of the most famous dust-ups took place on Aug. 4, 1993 — 27 years ago today, hard as that is to believe. Speaking of 27, Nolan Ryan was in the 27th and final
7:20 AM ET When the Miami Heat promoted Erik Spoelstra out of the video room and into an assistant coaching position, there was one problem: Spoelstra owned no suits. The league’s dress code for coaches, codified in a memo sent before the season, mandates every coach wear a dress shirt (or “dress sweater”) and sport
12:29 PM BST Wales and British & Irish Lions player Jamie Roberts has signed a contract with Dragons, the club announced on Monday. The 33-year-old will join the Welsh side with immediate effect after seven years away which included a stint with South African side the Stormers. 1 Related The centre left Cardiff Blues in