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12:49 PM ET LONDON — Novak Djokovic kept his cool in the furnace of Centre Court to win his seventh Wimbledon championship against Nick Kyrgios. As Kyrgios stuck the ball in the net on championship point, Djokovic looked to his team and let out a massive exhale. The triumph sees him go one behind Rafael

10:58 PM ET Associated Press High Connection won the $125,000 Los Alamitos Derby by 1 3/4 lengths Saturday, giving trainer Bob Baffert his second victory on the card in his return to competition after serving a 90-day suspension. “What a way to come back,” said Baffert, whose punishment by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission ended

8:18 PM ET Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — Georgia native Austin Hill claimed his second NASCAR Xfinity win of the season, leading an eight-car train across the line at Atlanta Motor Speedway to set off a raucous celebration in front of the home folks Saturday. The 28-year-old Xfinity rookie is from Winston, a small town

11:47 AM ET HAMBURG, Germany — “We love St. Pauli. The fabulous St. Pauli. We hate the Volkspark bastards. And beat the f—ing [insert opponent here]. If you can’t hear us. We sing a little louder.” St. Pauli is one of the strangest, most unique clubs in the world. But it’s also the German prototype:

8:52 AM ET International Fight Week represents the midpoint of the UFC “season” as fight fans watched the promotion’s 22nd fight card and seventh pay-per-view of the year at UFC 276 on July 2. After this past weekend’s festivities, the upcoming schedule is marked with plenty of title fights and major cards in intriguing international

The two rugby hemispheres come back together this year July, with several massive series taking place across the globe. Can Ireland win a first Test on New Zealand soil? Will Australia at last end this losing run to England? Can a struggling Wales spring an upset in South Africa? It really is a tantalising few

9:37 AM ET Jake Paul has a new opponent for his boxing match at Madison Square Garden next month after the withdrawal of Tommy Fury. Hasim Rahman Jr., son of the former boxing heavyweight champion of the same name, will replace Fury and fight Paul on Aug. 6 in New York, Paul told ESPN on

3:43 AM ET Rory McIlroy said the PGA Tour and DP World Tour should hold talks with the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series as the escalating tension between the circuits is “splitting the game.” Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson are among a number of top players who have joined the lucrative series,

12:53 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Give Nick Kyrgios credit for honesty: Even he did not think this day ever would arrive. The talented, tempestuous Australian is a semifinalist at Wimbledon. Kyrgios became the first unseeded and lowest-ranked man to get to the final four at the All England Club since 2008 by playing

8:00 AM ET IT WAS AUG. 11, 2021, and inside the Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas, what appeared to be an ordinary NBA summer league game between the Miami Heat and Memphis Grizzlies was anything but. This was sudden death, after the NBA had seven years prior changed the rules for summer league games that

10:08 AM ET Demaryius Thomas had the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE, which is linked to repeated blows to the head, according to an announcement Tuesday by doctors from Boston University who had been studying the former NFL star’s brain. Thomas was found dead in his Roswell, Georgia, home this

8:00 AM ET Maybe the wildest semi-legitimate conference realignment rumor ever didn’t come when Texas, Oklahoma and half the Big 12 nearly joined the Pac-10 a decade or so ago. It was much earlier than that. For most of 1959 and 1960, it looked as if about half of the Pacific Coast Conference (Cal, Stanford,

2:09 PM ET Hank Goldberg, who worked at ESPN as an NFL reporter and handicapping expert for two decades, died Monday on his 82nd birthday, his family confirmed. Goldberg had been in treatment for chronic kidney disease in recent years. Known as Hammering Hank, Goldberg was .500 or better in 15 of 17 NFL seasons

12:20 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Boston Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts will not be in the starting lineup for Monday’s game against Tampa Bay after leaving a day earlier with a cut on his left thigh that required seven stitches. Manager Alex Cora said the three-time All-Star was “pretty sore.” “He texted me

7:08 PM ET Associated Press ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Tyler Reddick raced to his first NASCAR Cup Series victory Sunday, continuing the season-long trend of first-time winners on road courses. Each of the first three road course races this year has had a first-time winner, with Reddick breaking through at Road America after Ross Chastain

5:52 PM ET Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Belmont Stakes winner Mo Donegal came out of the last leg of the Triple Crown with bone bruising and will be out of training for 60 days. Jerry Crawford, CEO of Donegal Racing, and co-owner Mike Repole said Saturday the colt will continue to be evaluated.

11:33 AM ET SALOU, Spain — With the 2022 World Cup final heading to extra time, coach Tricia Taliaferro put Annie Wickett in goal. Wickett, an outfield player, had scored one of the goals against Australia when, with the game tied at 2-2, Taliaferro took a decision that may have brought a #TaliaferroOut hashtag from

5:31 AM BST The Wallabies have overcome injury and ill-discipline to pull off a famous 30-28 victory over England in Perth and snap an eight-game losing streak. The Australians were forced to play a man down for more than half the match on Saturday night after lock Darcy Swain was marched for head-butting English rival

7:05 AM ET Growing up in Pittsburgh as an Alex Ovechkin fan wasn’t always easy for Logan Cooley. “I definitely got a lot of hate for that,” said Cooley, an 18-year-old center for the U.S. National Development team and a top 2022 NHL draft prospect. “I was a big Ovechkin fan. Loved the way he

12:26 PM ET LAS VEGAS — The top four fighters competing at UFC 276 all made weight successfully Friday morning here at the UFC Apex. Israel Adesanya weighed in at 183.5 pounds and Jared Cannonier was 184.5 pounds for their main event fight. Adesanya will defend his UFC middleweight title against Cannonier on Saturday night