9:41 AM ET ESPN News Services The LPGA Tour has canceled its tournament in Shanghai later this year because of ongoing restrictions in China related to COVID-19. The Buick LPGA Shanghai was to be held Oct. 13-16 at Qizhong Garden Golf Club. The tour said in a statement that it hopes to “compete in front
Month: July 2022
7:29 AM ET Alexander Volkanovski has won 22 straight fights, the last 12 of them in the UFC. Last Saturday at UFC 276, the featherweight champion defeated former champ Max Holloway for the third time. It was a shockingly dominant performance by the Australian fighter, one worthy of a boost in the ESPN pound-for-pound MMA
8:30 AM ET If the old “Defense wins championships” adage were actually true, the Big Ten West would have won one by now. No division in major college football has collectively stuck to the “defense and a good run game” approach more religiously. On average, Big Ten West teams ran 64% of the time on
8:00 AM ET IT WAS AUG. 11, 2021, and inside the Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas, what appeared to be an ordinary NBA summer league game between the Miami Heat and Memphis Grizzlies was anything but. This was sudden death, after the NBA had seven years prior changed the rules for summer league games that
7:00 AM ET NFL NationESPN The Buffalo Bills are the reigning, two-time AFC East champions. They didn’t punt in either of their final two games against the second-place New England Patriots last season, which highlights the gap between the teams. Can anyone catch the Bills? It’s the top question when assessing the AFC East in
1:05 AM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Chicago Cubs right-hander Kyle Hendricks left Tuesday’s game with the Milwaukee Brewers after only three innings due to a sore throwing shoulder. It was the shortest of Hendricks’ 16 starts this season. “We’ll let the doctors take a look and see how he presents tomorrow,” Cubs manager David
7:00 AM ET The NHL draft can be nice and tidy when there’s a franchise player at the top of the board like Connor McDavid or Auston Matthews, or when there’s a consensus choice like Owen Power was for the Buffalo Sabres last year. When there isn’t, like in the 2022 NHL draft scheduled for
2:23 PM ET Sophie Lawson Can Ada Hegerberg be Norway’s hero at the Euro 2022? After a five-year exile, Hegerberg might be a game-changer, but it’ll take more than her to win it all. Naomi Baker/Getty Images When Ada Hegerberg‘s name was called by Norwegian manager Martin Sjögren as one of the 23 players who would
4:54 AM ET A Premier League footballer who was arrested on suspicion of rape faces two further allegations over attacks on another woman, sources told ESPN. The player, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was questioned by London’s Metropolitan Police earlier this week and has been released on bail until an unspecified date in
5:57 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Jesse Lingard is set to travel to the United States to listen to pitches from Major League Soccer teams keen to sign the forward this summer, sources told ESPN. Lingard has left Manchester United a free agent and is being chased by Premier League clubs including West Ham and Everton.