2:30 PM ET In an exclusive interview with ESPN, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff rewinds the clock to April 15, 2009 and the day he nearly killed himself attempting a new lap record at the Nurburgring’s legendary Nordschleife… The Porsche 911 RSR was doing 189mph when the right rear tyre exploded and spat the car
Month: October 2020
2:50 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” ARLINGTON, Texas — They played this year, amid the fear and the death and the anguish and discomfort, so they could have a night like this. The baseball game staged here Wednesday
3:00 AM ET Aston Villa 7, Liverpool 2. Leicester City 5, Manchester City 2. Tottenham Hotspur 6, Manchester United 1. Hoffenheim 4, Bayern Munich 1. The early weeks of the 2020-21 European soccer season have produced more than their fair share of “Wait, WHAT?” results. With the transfer window closed and clubs on an international
3:07 AM ET It would have been strange indeed had the transfer window in Germany concluded just like any other. That football is not immune to the effects of a pandemic was illustrated by a greater emphasis than ever among Bundesliga clubs when it came to loan deals, many of them secured at the eleventh
11:33 PM ET Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash said the team will use Ryan Thompson as an opener for a potential closeout Game 4 against the New York Yankees on Thursday. The 28-year-old right-hander pitched two scoreless innings in relief of starter Blake Snell in Monday’s Game 1 of the American League Division Series.
2:02 AM ET For years, the Los Angeles Dodgers knew that if they could just get a lead to the ninth inning, Kenley Jansen was waiting to jog in from the bullpen to finish things off. After Jansen struggled through yet another appearance on Wednesday, the formula for manager Dave Roberts is no longer so
7:19 AM GMT Back in May, at the height of Cricket Australia’s anxiety about the impact of Covid-19 on this season, draft plans for the Sheffield Shield had it pared back to just five rounds, all played after the conclusion of the BBL. As for as the pointy end of the red-ball portion of the
1:01 PM ET Associated Press OVERIJSE, Belgium — Julian Alaphilippe made up for an embarrassing blunder last weekend by winning the Brabantse Pijl race on Wednesday, his first victory since becoming world champion. Alaphilippe, who last month became France’s first road race world champion since 1997, was left red-faced on Sunday when he let up
Oct 5, 2020 Los Angeles Chargers running back Austin Ekeler is expected to be sidelined four to six weeks after a second opinion on his injured hamstring confirmed the initial diagnosis, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Ekeler will not require any sort of procedure on the hamstring, just rehab, the source said. Ekeler also
1:00 AM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Hockey Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur is facing a recurrence of lung cancer, the hospital treating him announced Wednesday. Lafleur was informed of the diagnosis during an appointment with his medical team earlier this week at the Centre hospitalier de l’Universite de Montreal. “It’s a big blow, but