The Guardian MLS 2021 predictions: LAFC’s first title and the return of Josef Martínez The new season kicks off this weekend. Our panel of writers deliver their verdicts on the MVP, the champions and a new team in Texas Carlos Vela, Phil Neville and Josef Martínez will all figure prominently in the new MLS season.
Share Since the first WNBA draft in 1997, hundreds of the top women’s college basketball starts have heard their names called. But only one program has averaged more than one first round pick per draft — UConn. The Huskies have had 25 first-round picks, by far the most in the country. Last year, Oregon star Sabrina Ionescu
Getty Images For the first time in 2021, Novak Djokovic has lost. Dan Evans defeated the top-ranked tennis player 6-4, 7-5 in the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters. Djokovic, who is coming off a title at the Australian Open, was understandably self-critical about his performance against the unseeded British player. “I don’t want
2:56 PM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI — No. 1-ranked Ash Barty won her second successive Miami Open championship Saturday by beating No. 8-seeded Bianca Andreescu, who was injured when she fell and retired trailing in the second set. Andreescu, crying and shaking her head, conceded while behind 6-3, 4-0. She stumbled and went sprawling
3:35 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Hubert Hurkacz of Poland won the biggest title of his career Sunday by beating 19-year-old Jannik Sinner of Italy 7-6 (4), 6-4 in the Miami Open final. Hurkacz, 24, improved to 10-0 in Florida this year, including the Delray Beach title in January. Ranked 37th, he beat two
The 2020-21 FIBA EuroLeague Women Final Four is set to begin on Friday, Apr. 16, with four teams that went undefeated in the regular season competing for the championship: Fenerbahçe (Turkey), UMMC Ekaterinburg (Russia), Perfumerias Avenida (Spain) and Sopron Basket (Hungary). The winners of the two Final Four games will then play for the EuroLeague
INDIANAPOLIS — The Division I Men’s Basketball Committee will feature five new members for the 2021-22 season, thanks in part to the Division I Council’s approval in January of a proposal to expand the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Committees from 10 to 12. Both committees consist of one member selected from each of the five
6:18 AM ET Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa — Caster Semenya won the 5,000-meter race at the South African national championships Thursday in a personal-best time and then said she is likely to focus on long-distance events for the rest of her career. That could be her best hope of running at this year’s Tokyo
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MONACO (AP) — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic lost 6-4, 7-5 to Dan Evans on Thursday in the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters for his first defeat of the year. The Australian Open champion was 10-0 coming into the match but faced pressure from the outset as he trailed 3-0 to the unseeded British player
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Could Chip Ganassi Racing end the 2021 season employing a pair of seven-time champions? Scott Dixon won his sixth IndyCar championship in 2020 and enters 2021 as the favorite for the championship yet again. A seventh championship for Dixon would tie him with AJ Foyt for the most championships in major North American open-wheel racing.
Are we in for a season-long battle between Red Bull and Mercedes? Red Bull’s Max Verstappen sure looked to have the fastest car over the course of the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix weekend. But some canny pit strategy by Mercedes and some even better driving by Lewis Hamilton meant that the defending Formula 1 champion
The Washington Mystics won the WNBA championship in 2019 before losing many key players to opt outs prior to the 2020 bubble season during which they went 9-13 and lost in the first round of the playoffs. They hope to be back to being one of the best teams in the league this year. Picks:
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3:56 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace is partnering with Novant Health to address the hesitancy to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Wallace, the only Black driver in NASCAR, received his COVID vaccine on Tuesday at his race team’s shop in North Carolina. He says it’s important to learn about the vaccine and for
French auhorities have reportedly dropped an investigation into Conor McGregor. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images) French authorities have dropped a sexual assault investigation into Conor McGregor, according to documents obtained by TMZ. Police on the French island of Corsica detained McGregor last September following a complaint against the UFC fighter. Prosecutors described the allegation
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