8:34 PM ET Associated Press WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Webb Simpson ran out of sensational shots in the end to keep him from joining an elite group. Simpson shot a 9-under-par 61 for a one-stroke lead over Whee Kim after the first round of A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier in West Virginia on
8:53 PM ET Nick Foles remains on a roll. As if winning MVP honors in the Super Bowl wasn’t enough, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback is now a best-selling author. Tyndale House, which published “Believe It,” Foles’ autobiography, announced via Twitter that the book will debut at No. 5 on the New York Times Hardcover, Nonfiction
8:27 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings have re-signed left wing Andreas Athanasiou to a two-year contract. The 23-year-old Athanasiou set career highs with 17 assists and 33 points in 71 games last season. He has 43 goals and 33 assists in 172 career games — all with Detroit. Athanasiou was
8:21 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Toyota teams in the Xfinity Series will campaign with the Supra model in 2019, a move that corresponds with a relaunch of the Toyota sports car. Close battles, like
7:32 PM ET Canadian promoter Yvon Michel’s purse bid has been ratified by the WBC as the winner for the right to promote the light heavyweight world championship fight between Adonis Stevenson and Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Michel, who promotes longtime champion Stevenson, bid $2.101 for the promotional rights at the purse bid on Monday in Manhattan
7:36 PM ET Associated Press Vegas Golden Knights forward William Karlsson is among 43 NHL players seeking salary arbitration after he finished third in the NHL in scoring with the expansion franchise last season. Two more Golden Knights, defenseman Colin Miller and forward Tomas Nosek, also are on the list of players electing to have
7:34 PM ET Jacksonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette signed a rookie contract worth $27 million last summer, but he hasn’t forgotten his roots. The former LSU star saw a tweet from a Tigers student requesting help with her tuition and asking for contributions to a GoFundMe site, with donations of $1, $5, anything. I
7:26 PM ET LONDON — If tennis were played on paper, Angelique Kerber‘s second-round match against 18-year-old American Claire Liu and defending champion Garbine Muguruza‘s meeting with unseeded Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck would have been fly-bys at best. Kerber is a former world No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champ. Liu is ranked No. 237
5:34 PM ET ESPN News Services LONDON — After advancing in the men’s doubles at Wimbledon on Thursday, Jack Sock finally discussed his opening-round singles defeat and the fine that followed. On Tuesday, having earned a two-set lead against 81st-ranked Matteo Berrettini of Italy, Sock fell to a 6-7 (5), 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-5, 6-2
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Yorkshire 200 for 3 (Lyth 92*, Tattersall 53*, Brook 44) beat Durham 156 for 4 (Stokes 90*, Brookes 3-21) by 44 runsScorecard Yorkshire comfortably defended a 201 target against a Ben Stokes boosted Durham side at Emerald Headingley to make a winning start to this summer’s Vitality Blast. England