Sep 14, 2024, 11:27 AM ETFLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- The Atlanta Falcons hosted the football team from Apalachee High School a week after a shooting left two students and two teachers dead.The high school players watched practice Friday from the sideline at the Falcons' training complex."I think it's incredible that you get a chance to see some young kids going through some tough stuff," said Jerry Gray, the Falcons' assistant […]

Sep 14, 2024, 11:14 AM ETGAINESVILLE, Va. -- LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan took responsibility Saturday for the tour's failure to get fans to the Solheim Cup in time to see the opening tee shots Friday but did not offer a full explanation of the debacle that has led to speculation about her future.Players teed off Friday morning in front of half-empty grandstands at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, muting […]

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterSep 14, 2024, 12:36 PM ETClose College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.MADISON, Wis. -- Wisconsin starting quarterback Tyler Van Dyke left Saturday's loss to No. 4 Alabama with a right knee/leg injury following a run on the game's opening drive.Van Dyke, a transfer from Miami, scrambled for 5 yards along the Wisconsin sideline when his right knee appeared to buckle. The […]

A superb second-half goal from substitute Callum Hudson-Odoi gave Nottingham Forest the biggest surprise win of the Premier League season so far as they beat Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield on Saturday.The win was Forest's first at Anfield since 1969, and the players and the away fans celebrated accordingly as the home crowd was left to rue a rudderless display from the Reds that lacked a cutting edge.Liverpool dominated the opening […]

Sep 14, 2024, 12:24 PM ETKAMPALA, Uganda -- Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after allegedly being doused in petrol and set alight by her former partner, was buried Saturday with full military honors at her ancestral place in Uganda's northeast.Cheptegei, 33, returned to her home in the highlands of western Kenya, an area popular with international runners for its high altitude training facilities, after coming 44th in the […]

On Sunday, Taylor Fritz will face off against Jannik Sinner in the US Open men's final (2 p.m. ET ABC; ESPN+). Sinner is ranked No. 1 in the world and won the Australian Open title earlier this year, while Fritz is playing in his first Grand Slam final. Can Fritz somehow pull off the upset? Our experts weigh in.What can Fritz do to defeat Sinner?Brad Gilbert: Fritz has to serve […]

NEW YORK -- Moments after winning her third Grand Slam singles title, and first at the US Open, Aryna Sabalenka fell to the ground with her hands covering her face.She had just defeated American Jessica Pegula 7-5, 7-5 in front of a partisan and star-studded crowd Saturday under the roof of Arthur Ashe Stadium.It was a markedly different scene from a year ago, when Sabalenka squandered a one-set lead over […]

United States men's national team interim coach Mikey Varas said his players lacked the right mentality in a historic 2-1 loss to Canada Saturday at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas.It was Canada's second victory over the USMNT on U.S. soil and first in 67 years."The mentality is on the players. They know it," he told reporters. "We speak the truth to each other. I love those guys. But […]

Nick Wagoner, ESPN Staff WriterSep 7, 2024, 06:26 PM ETCloseNick Wagoner is an NFL reporter at ESPN. Nick has covered the San Francisco 49ers and the NFL at ESPN since 2016, having previously covered the St. Louis Rams for 12 years, including three years (2013 to 2015) at ESPN. In his 10 years with the company, Nick has led ESPN's coverage of the Niners' 2019 Super Bowl run, Colin Kaepernick's […]