10:00 PM ET Associated Press EDMOND, Okla. — Mark Hayes, the former Oklahoma State star who won the PGA Tour’s 1977 Players Championship, has died. He was 69. Hayes died Monday in Edmond, brother Larry Hayes said. Hayes had early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. In the 1977 Players in tough weather conditions at Sawgrass Country Club,
10:22 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina has reported secondary violations to the NCAA within the football program involving multiple players. In a statement Wednesday night, UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham said the NCAA has deemed the violations to be secondary in severity and that the school has “taken appropriate disciplinary action.”
6:50 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Two-time US Open runner-up Victoria Azarenka is ranked just below the cutoff for direct entry into the year’s last Grand Slam tournament. Azarenka, a former No. 1 and twice the champion at the Australian Open, is No. 108 this week, seven spots outside of an automatic spot
6:05 PM ET The Los Angeles Angels commended Mike Trout for “prioritizing his personal values over commercial self-promotion” on Wednesday, a day after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said that the outfielder would be an even bigger star if he would spend more time marketing himself. Trout responded to Manfred’s comments after exiting Tuesday night’s All-Star
5:47 PM ET Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. — Forward Chris Tierney has re-signed with the San Jose Sharks following a season in which he set career highs in nearly every major statistical category. The Sharks did not disclose the terms of the two-year deal announced Wednesday. “Chris had his best season as a professional
5:28 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. has lost 5-hour Energy as a sponsor at Furniture Row Racing as the company has opted to end its NASCAR sponsorship program after the season.
Jul 17, 2018 Editor’s note: This story has been updated after Darrelle Revis announced his retirement. ESPN’s All-Retirement team is back for its third installment — a 23-man lineup of players who called it quits this offseason. These rankings aren’t just for this season. Add in the 2019 and 2020 seasons, too. Our panel of
4:48 PM ET Hard-hitting English welterweight Paul Daley has re-upped with Bellator MMA, clearing the way for his participation in the promotion’s Welterweight Grand Prix and a long-running grudge match against Michael Page. Bellator president Scott Coker confirmed Daley’s new deal to ESPN on Wednesday. The two sides have occasionally been at odds during Daley’s
3:51 PM ET After saying “attempts were made to see what would be best” with Kawhi Leonard this offseason, Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs are ready to move forward after trading Leonard for DeMar DeRozan on Wednesday. “We talked often over the summer, about a lot of different things both on and off
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Lancashire 146 for 2 (Davies 51*, Jennings 37*) beat Leicestershire 142 (Livingstone 4-17) by eight wicketsScorecard Lancashire Lightning notched a fourth straight win to go top of the North Division of the Vitality T20 Blast after crushing Leicestershire Foxes at Grace Road. After a bright start, the Foxes collapsed