Olympics

6:30 AM ET Associated Press GENEVA — Marijuana use will remain banned at sports events after the World Anti-Doping Agency on Friday resisted calls to change its status on the list of prohibited substances. The agency was asked to review the status of THC — the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis — after the case of

7:45 AM ET Associated Press Ski jumping’s top circuit is returning to the United States for the first time in nearly two decades. The International Ski and Snowboard Federation men’s ski jumping World Cup will be held in February in Lake Placid, New York. Ski jumping’s last World Cup in the U.S. was in 2004

7:30 AM ET M.A. VoepelESPN.com Close M.A. Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. The 2022 FIBA World Cup will be the first major competition that the U.S. women’s basketball team will compete in without

2:50 PM ET THE TRAIN PLATFORM in Celle, Germany, is bustling. It’s a sea of duffel and roller bags, parents tending to small children beneath a beaming late-summer Sunday sun. Soon, the high-speed train will arrive and, however and wherever the weekend was spent, it’s time to return home. The train will stop first in

9:25 AM ET Alexa PhilippouESPN Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer Just over a week before USA Basketball travels to Australia for the

10:22 PM ET Alexa PhilippouESPN Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer SYDNEY — 2022 WNBA champions A’ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray and Kelsey Plum

7:29 PM ET Associated Press WOLLONGONG, Australia — Soren Waerenskjold has repeated Norway’s gold-medal success at the world road cycling championships a day after Tobias Foss finished first in the elite men’s time trial. Waerenskjold won the men’s under-23 time trial on the second day of the championships with a dominant performance. He clocked 34

12:27 PM ET Shyam Vasudevan Bajrang Punia gave it his all, including his blood and sweat, as he overcame a deep cut on his head to win a bronze medal via repechage at the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade on Sunday. Bajrang now has four medals at the Worlds [a silver and three bronze]but this

11:43 AM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — Kenyan Moses Kibet claimed victory in a fast-paced Sydney marathon that saw the top three finishers all better the previous fastest time in Australia. Kibet finished the course set around Sydney’s harbor and city center in 2 hours, 7 minutes, 3 seconds on Sunday, two seconds ahead of

11:54 PM ET Associated Press WOLLONGONG, Australia — Ellen van Dijk defended her title and claimed a third women’s time trial gold medal at the opening event of the world road cycling championships on Sunday. Taking advantage of a technical course the Dutch star maintained a perfectly paced cadence to beat Australia’s Grace Brown by

6:10 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — France sent a message on its way to grabbing a spot in the EuroBasket championship game and a showdown with Spain. Guerschon Yabusele scored 22 points, and France rolled past Poland 95-54 in the semifinals of the European championships on Friday. “We just played our basketball,” Yabusele said.

Sep 16, 2022 Associated Press ROME — Costly construction delays, a leadership vacancy linked to a volatile political climate and a lack of sponsors amid a spreading financial crisis have prompted International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach to acknowledge the “challenges” facing organizers of the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. With the

10:30 PM ET Nisha Dahiya missed out on a World Championship medal as she lost to former world champion Linda Morais of Canada in the women’s 68kg bronze play-off at the Wrestling Worlds in Belgrade on Thursday. The 24-year-old Nisha, who won a bronze in the U-23 World Championships in 65kg last year, lost to

6:55 PM ET HENDERSON, Nev. — The NHL is considering a play-in tournament for the 2024 World Cup of Hockey that would be held directly before the February event. “For 2024, we may do a mini-qualifier as part of the tournament,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told ESPN on Thursday during the Player Media Tour

2:03 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Slovenia roared back from a 23-point deficit, and it looked as if it was well on its way to a berth in the EuroBasket semifinals. Poland had other ideas — and in an absolute shocker, EuroBasket will have a new champion. Mateusz Ponitka had 26 points, 16 rebounds

8:38 AM ET Associated Press BARCELONA — Dejan Bodiroga, a three-time EuroLeague champion during a stellar playing career, was announced Wednesday as the league’s new president and director. Also appointed Wednesday: Marshall Glickman, who will serve as the EuroLeague’s new CEO and is a past president of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers. They succeed the

8:20 AM ET Triple Commonwealth Games champion Vinesh Phogat failed to put up a fight and was knocked out by Mongolia’s Khulan Batkhuyag 0-7 in a major upset at the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade on Tuesday. Fresh from winning a gold in India’s stupendous 12-medal winning show at the CWG Birmingham, the 10th seeded

5:35 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Nonbinary athletes will be able to run in next year’s Boston Marathon without having to register as members of the men’s or women’s divisions, race organizers announced Monday. The Boston Athletic Association, which administers the prestigious marathon, said it has been working to expand opportunities for nonbinary people