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8:55 PM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The ball seemed destined for the water. All the body language in the world didn’t seem like it was going to change that. Justin Thomas tried anyway. And then, a shot aimed too far left somehow found land, rolling along the railroad ties that frame the pond

7:31 PM ET ESPN News Services AVONDALE, Ariz. — Martin Truex Jr. pulled away in the final laps Sunday at Phoenix Raceway for his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season and 28th overall. Truex beat the four championship finalists from last year. He had failed to advance into the season-ending finale for the

9:52 PM ET The Los Angeles Lakers will be without starting center Marc Gasol for at least two more games as the big man continues to be away from the team because of the league’s health and safety protocols, coach Frank Vogel said Saturday. Gasol has already missed three games, spanning back to before the

4:25 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Garbine Muguruza ended her almost two-year wait for a title with a 7-6 (6), 6-3 win against Barbora Krejcikova in the final of the Dubai Championships on Saturday. “It means a lot,” the ninth-seeded Muguruza said, “it’s never easy to win.” In her third

8:00 AM ET FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two NFL draft prospects gleefully gallop to the computer desk at the start of the 40-yard dash line looking for confirmation that they just witnessed something special. Turns out, they did. The computer reads: Georgia cornerback Eric Stokes, 4.246. It was a 40-yard dash that was blazing fast

Mar 2, 2021 So this NFL rookie kicker walks into a pro shop … Sounds like the beginning of a joke, right? But if a Josh Scobee movie was ever made, that would be the very first golf scene. At one point, the Jacksonville Jaguars’ all-time leading scorer was the top-ranked golfer from another sport.

7:15 AM ET It was March 11, 2020, and the Winnipeg Jets were holding their morning skate before a game at the Edmonton Oilers. Coach Paul Maurice had just stepped onto the ice when his captain, Blake Wheeler, skated over with a concerned expression. “You think they’re going to shut us down tonight?” asked Wheeler.

8:00 AM ET Are you not entertained? What the FCS spring season lacks in length and quality, it makes up for in pure, magical nonsense. The best program in the country got blown out by an unranked opponent two weeks ago, and the new No. 1 has now been scared twice into the second half.

9:15 PM ET Major League Baseball announced that it would test a variety of experimental rules across different levels of the minor leagues during the 2021 season. Ranging from banning some forms of the defensive shift and using larger bases to implementing electronic strike zones and experimenting with 15-second pitch clocks, the new rules will

7:00 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United have appointed John Murtough as the club’s first football director and Darren Fletcher as their first technical director. Murtough has been promoted from head of football development while former Scotland international Fletcher rejoined the club in January as part of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s backroom staff. – When is

8:30 AM ET Saturday night’s superfight at UFC 259 did not produce a double champion, but it did provide one of the fighters with a ticket to the ESPN pound-for-pound MMA rankings. Jan Blachowicz came away from the weekend still in possession of the UFC light heavyweight championship and as a new entrant in the

8:00 AM GMT This article is part of ESPN’s Women’s History Month. COVID-19 ravaged the world in 2020. The virus, which was silently transmitted, brought services to their knees. Those working on the frontlines were not just doctors, nurses, teachers or police anymore. Suddenly, they were counsellors to members of their communities who had lost

3:09 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN On a March morning, in a suite at the Essex House, half a century ago, Muhammad Ali’s longtime friend and adviser Gene Kilroy received a call from the late Budd Schulberg, a writer whose contribution to the American canon includes “The Harder They Fall,” “On the Waterfront” and a line

7:20 AM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — One year ago, on Thursday afternoon at the Players Championship, Rory McIlroy wasn’t worried about a virus. He was annoyed. The defending champion at the PGA Tour’s signature event, he had just opened with even-par 72, sat 9 shots behind leader Hideki Matsuyama and was staring at

7:45 AM ET Fouaad Mirza is meticulously checking temperatures twice a day and looking out for signs of cough and runny nose. The Olympic-bound Indian equestrian is following these close monitoring practices on his mare, Dajara 4, currently serving a 14-day quarantine period in Germany following the outbreak of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1). The International

7:15 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Kyle Larson is back in NASCAR and back in victory lane. On Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Larson raced to his first NASCAR victory since he was reinstated from a nearly yearlong suspension. He ran just the first four races last season, then lost his job