3:37 PM ET ST. LOUIS — Poor starts have been an issue at times for Tiger Woods, and he overcame a massively bad one Thursday at Bellerive Country Club to shoot even-par 70 in the first round of the PGA Championship. Woods made a bogey on his first hole, the par-4 10th, then hit a
3:39 PM ET Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander, in the midst of another All-Star season, credits wife Kate Upton with saving his career. “She was instrumental in me not…like, jumping off a bridge,” Verlander told Bleacher Report. “I was depressed and kind of just upset at the world and trying to hide my own s–t.”
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Gloucestershire 242 for 4 (Cockbain 123, Klinger 44) beat Middlesex 172 for 6 (Eskinazi 51, Noema-Barnett 3-18) by 70 runsScorecard Ian Cockbain hit his maiden T20 century and the second highest score ever by a Gloucestershire batsman in the competition as Middlesex were put to the sword in a
Sign up, deposit £5 or more to your account and bet365 will match your qualifying deposit in Bet Credits when you place qualifying bets to the same value and they are settled. Min odds/bet and payment method exclusions apply. Returns exclude Bet Credits stake. T&Cs, time limits & exclusions apply. More Details
3:43 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports DEARBORN, Mich. — It is clear that many in the NASCAR community have faith in Jim France to take over as the interim chairman and CEO of NASCAR. Less clear is whether his
2:37 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports DEARBORN, Mich. — Tony Stewart, who hasn’t ruled out a return to stock car racing and has often said he would love to drive in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, expanded the
1:49 PM ET Amanda Serrano, already the only female boxer to win world titles in five weight classes, will go for one in a sixth. Serrano will face Yamila Esther Reynoso for a vacant women’s junior welterweight belt on the Shawn Porter-Danny Garcia undercard on Sept. 8 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, promoter
5:52 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Greek teen Stefanos Tsitsipas upset Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3 on Thursday in the Rogers Cup. The 19-year-old Tsitsipas broke the ninth-seeded Serb’s serve early in the third set and held serve from there to reach his first career ATP World Tour Masters 1000 quarterfinal.
Tony Tchani was waived by the Chicago Fire on Thursday after making just 13 appearances for the club. The Chicago Fire, who have lost their past six Major League Soccer games, cut ties with two players Thursday, waiving midfielder Tony Tchani and defender Kevin Ellis. Both players were in their first season with the team.
10:38 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN John Miner could always tell when an opponent was going to drop the reference. It was always a player imported from North America to his pro hockey league in Austria or Switzerland. They’d give him a glance, then smile, and then say some variation of the following: “Oh, there ya