LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Durant won two ESPY Awards, including male athlete of the year, and mixed martial arts star Ronda Rousey earned female athlete honors, becoming the first UFC fighter to claim a trophy in the biggest category at the show honoring the year’s best performances Wednesday night. Durant also won best NBA […]
Women’s tennis world No. 1 Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week’s Swedish Open due to her viral illness. Williams was forced to pull out of her doubles match with her sister Venus at Wimbledon last week after struggling in the warm-up and requiring treatment from the doctor. She decided to withdraw from the encounter […]
SAO PAULO (AP) — It wasn’t just a bad dream. Brazilians woke up Wednesday to dreadful headlines describing the shame and humiliation of their soccer team’s historic defeat of 7-1 to Germany in the World Cup’s semifinal. There were also reports of violence breaking out right after the game with many buses being torched in […]
Retired tennis legend Martina Navratilova says that Serena Williams’ recent Wimbledon illness was no virus. The 18-time Grand Slam champion told ESPNW that whatever it was, she didn’t believe it was the “viral illness’’ that a Wimbledon spokesman and Willams herself said it was. “I think ‘virus,’ whatever they’re saying it was, I don’t think […]
SAO PAULO (AP) — Tim Howard left a lasting impression on Americans from coast to coast — and fans around the world, really — for his incredible, improbable saves in the loss to Belgium in extra time that sent the U.S. home from the World Cup to a country captivated. Howard is a big reason […]
Not only is Drake a rapper, but he’s an actor, the Toronto Raptors’ global ambassador and now….the host of one of the most popular awards shows around- ESPN’s annual ESPY Awards. A promo for the July 16 event has hit the web and although it’s short- it reminds us that Drake has a knack for […]
LONDON (AP) — It was clear something was wrong with Serena Williams from the moment she began trying to warm up for her Wimbledon doubles match Tuesday. She weakly pushed volleys into the net from a couple of feet away. She whiffed on practice strokes. She even had trouble with the simple task of collecting […]
Well dang! You certainly don’t see this every day. We’re talking a woman 8 months pregnant running a track meet. Hello! That’s exactly what Alysia Montano, 28. The Olympian sprinter ran in an 800 meter race on Thursday, coming in at 2 minutes, 32.13 seconds during a qualifying heat in Sacramento. Montano, a five-time USA […]
You may have thought Cuba Gooding, Jr.’s public profile took a nosedive after “Jerry Maguire,” but you’d be only partly correct. See, it’s pretty typical…
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Bill Haas is the defending champion and an afterthought at the Quicken Loans National. He would have expected nothing less. Tiger Woods is back at Congressional. And this time, the tournament host will be doing more than just handing out the trophy. Woods returns to competition Thursday for the first time […]
NATAL, Brazil (AP) — Biting opponents, racist comments — all that looked to be behind Luis Suarez, as soccer’s bad boy was maturing into a star for his club and country. Then, the old habit that most people leave behind in nursery school cropped up again in front of an audience of millions. Faced with […]
Authorities said Team USA Soccer goalie Hope Solo seemed to be under the influence when they took her into custody for domestic violence. Cops told…
