5:53 PM ET Associated Press ROME — The Italian Open plans to award women the same amount of prize money as men starting in 2025. When Iga Swiatek won last year’s tournament on the red clay of the Foro Italico, she earned less than half of what Novak Djokovic took home for his title. Swiatek
Month: April 2023
4:36 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN AUGUSTA, Ga. — After finishing up his practice round Tuesday, Scottie Scheffler packed up his things, and as he was leaving the players’ locker room, he noticed what was happening around him: Augusta was setting up for Tuesday night’s annual Champions Dinner. His Champions Dinner. “The weight of everything hit
4:09 PM ET Marc Raimondi Mike Coppinger The combat sports landscape is about to undergo a seismic shift. Two of the biggest live event and broadcast promoters in the combat space, the UFC and WWE, will be merged into one company, an unprecedented and stunning business move. Endeavor, the UFC’s parent company, announced Monday it
3:31 PM ET Simon Fraser University, the only NCAA football team in Canada, will disband its program, the university announced Tuesday. SFU found itself in a difficult spot after the Great Northwest Athletic Conference stopped sponsoring football after the 2021 season, forcing the Red Leafs to become a football-only member of the Lone Star Conference
1:13 PM ET Washington Wizards forward Deni Avdija will miss the next two games because of left elbow bursitis, the team announced Tuesday. The team said Avdija, 22, will miss back-to-back games against the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday and Wednesday. Whether he returns for Friday’s home game against the Miami Heat
2:40 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — The arena where the Miami Heat play their home games now has yet another new name after Miami-Dade County commissioners voted to enter into a 17-year deal to call the facility Kaseya Center. The name change takes effect immediately. Kaseya, a Miami-based software company, will pay $117.37 million
3:53 PM ET PLAYA VISTA, CA. — The Los Angeles Lakers and LA Clippers have played each other under the glaring Christmas Day and Opening Night spotlights, but Wednesday’s clash between the two hallway rivals actually will have playoff ramifications. In what will be the biggest game of the season and quite possibly the most
12:38 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN AUGUSTA, Ga. — As Tiger Woods prepares for his 25th Masters appearance, the five-time champion said Tuesday that the thought of one day playing his last competitive round at Augusta National has crossed his mind. “I don’t know how many more I have in me,” Woods said. “I know more
2:44 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — A balding, introspective Tiger Woods arrived at Augusta National on Tuesday and spoke about joy and gratitude. He wasn’t a cartoon hero, or a cartoon villain, just a middle-aged man with a complicated life, who loves to spend time with his children and to lose himself in the quiet
3:35 PM ET Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Attorneys for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre argued in a new court filing Monday that a civil lawsuit against him seeking to recover misspent welfare money in Mississippi’s largest ever corruption case should be dismissed because the state Department of Human Services lacks evidence and is attempting