5:33 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Serena Williams won her first match since losing the Wimbledon final, beating Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday night in the second round of the Rogers Cup. The 37-year-old Williams has won the event three times, all in Toronto. She will face Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova —
5:13 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa is having an MRI for a possible right ankle injury after leaving Wednesday’s practice early. With about 45 minutes left in the practice, Bosa appeared to get tangled up with multiple teammates on a running play off the right side and
5:13 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa is having an MRI for a possible right ankle injury after leaving Wednesday’s practice early. With about 45 minutes left in the practice, Bosa appeared to get tangled up with multiple teammates on a running play off the right side and
5:25 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Top-seeded Rafael Nadal opened his Rogers Cup title defense Wednesday, beating England’s Daniel Evans 7-6 (6), 6-4 in a second-round match delayed by rain three times. After rain delays of six and 30 minutes, Nadal fought off two set points in the first-set tiebreaker. Play was stopped for
5:05 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN RENTON, Wash. — Seattle Seahawks tight end Ed Dickson had knee surgery Tuesday and is expected to miss the preseason, coach Pete Carroll told reporters. Carroll said the team hopes Dickson is back in four to five weeks. That timetable would mean his status for Seattle’s Sept. 8 opener against
4:00 PM ET All month, we’ll be checking in on the nation’s top teams as they prepare for the 2019 season. We’ll be visiting Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma and Ohio State. But up first? Dabo Swinney and the defending champion Clemson Tigers, where the expectations are higher than ever. Stop one: Clemson CLEMSON, S.C. — Dabo
4:51 PM ET Milwaukee Brewers star outfielder Christian Yelich said he is day to day after potentially aggravating his nagging back injury. Yelich was not in the lineup for the second straight game Wednesday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The reigning National League MVP told reporters that he felt something in his back during Monday’s
4:56 PM ET SAN DIEGO — LIZ Carmouche sat in her truck for 30 minutes, frustrated. She was physically and emotionally drained. Carmouche’s MMA teammate Ilima-Lei Macfarlane had invited her to do underwater training, a program called Deep End Fitness, last November. Carmouche, while an exceptional athlete and veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, had
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4:02 PM ET Steve KimESPN Bantamweight world titlists Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire will meet in the finals of the World Boxing Super Series bantamweight finals on Nov. 7. The two will square off for the Muhammad Ali Trophy at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Inoue (18-0, 16 KOs), aka “The Monster,” has