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ESPN News Services Aug 3, 2024, 05:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Brazil beat hosts France 1-0 in Nantes to reach the women’s Olympic soccer semifinals and extend the top-level international career of legendary forward Marta. Marta, a six-time women’s world player of the year, was suspended for the quarterfinal after receiving a red card

Associated Press Aug 3, 2024, 09:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PORTLAND, Ore. — Andrea Lee took the lead Saturday in a bid for her second Portland Classic victory in three seasons, shooting a 5-under 67 for a one-stroke advantage over Dewi Weber and Alexa Pano. Lee rebounded from an opening bogey to birdie five

Rich Cimini, ESPN Staff WriterAug 3, 2024, 02:54 PM ET Close Rich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New York Jets and the NFL at ESPN. Rich has covered the Jets for over 30 years, joining ESPN in 2010. Rich also hosts the Flight Deck podcast. He previously was a beat writer for

Associated Press Aug 3, 2024, 12:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria clinched a medal Saturday at the Paris Olympics following days of sharp scrutiny and online abuse as controversy about her gender have exploded into a larger clash about identity in sports. Khelif defeated Anna Luca Hamori of Hungary 5:0

Aug 3, 2024, 06:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The International Boxing Association (IBA) will award Italy’s Angela Carini, who lost her welterweight round-of-16 bout against Algerian Imane Khelif at the Paris Olympics in 46 seconds on Thursday, $50,000 in prize money, it said on Friday. Carini pulled out in the first round after the

Aug 3, 2024, 09:17 AM Open Extended Reactions England centre Henry Slade has had surgery in his shoulder. Hannah Peters/Getty Images England centre Henry Slade will be out for three to four months after having shoulder surgery, Exeter Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter said on Friday. Slade, 31, sustained an injury during the Six Nations

ESPN News Services Aug 2, 2024, 05:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — Victor Wembanyama was lurking. Franz Wagner kept going anyway. He slashed into the middle of the lane, then slipped under the swatting arm of the 7-foot-4 phenom for an emphatic left-handed dunk. It might have been the biggest highlight of

Associated Press Aug 2, 2024, 03:27 PM ET Open Extended Reactions VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — The post from the Spanish basketball federation to congratulate Rudy Fernandez on his career came immediately after the game, and only one word was necessary. “Gracias.” Fernandez’s sixth and final Olympics — and presumably, the end of his time as a

ESPN News Services Aug 2, 2024, 05:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions An early goal was enough for France to beat Argentina 1-0 and reach the men’s soccer semifinals at the Paris Olympics on Friday, in a match where the Argentines were booed throughout by a hostile home crowd in Bordeaux. While primarily an under-23

Associated Press Aug 2, 2024, 08:48 AM ET VILLEPINTE, France — The Hungarian Boxing Association says it is sending letters of protest to both the IOC and Hungary’s Olympic committee over Anna Luca Hamori’s quarterfinal matchup with Imane Khelif of Algeria in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics. Hamori still will accept her fight on

Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterAug 1, 2024, 02:57 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Open Extended Reactions Major League Baseball’s new postseason schedule includes the flexibility for an earlier start to the World Series if

ESPN News Services Aug 1, 2024, 07:04 AM ET Imane Khelif of Algeria won her opening Olympic boxing bout Thursday when opponent Angela Carini of Italy quit after 46 seconds. Khelif was disqualified from the 2023 world championships after failing an unspecified gender eligibility test, and her presence at the Paris Olympics has become a

Jul 31, 2024, 08:02 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Canada‘s appeal against their soccer team’s points deduction at the Paris Games amid a drone scandal was dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the CAS said Wednesday. The CAS said its panel of three judges dismissed Canada’s appeal and confirmed the six-point deduction imposed

Rich Cimini, ESPN Staff WriterJul 30, 2024, 03:00 PM ET Close Rich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New York Jets and the NFL at ESPN. Rich has covered the Jets for over 30 years, joining ESPN in 2010. Rich also hosts the Flight Deck podcast. He previously was a beat writer for

Connor O’Halloran Jul 30, 2024, 04:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Andy Murray continues to stave off his planned retirement from tennis as he and Team GB playing partner, Dan Evans, won their second-round match in the Paris Olympics men’s doubles tournament on Tuesday. It sees the British pair advance to the quarterfinals

Brian Windhorst, ESPN Senior WriterJul 30, 2024, 08:09 AM ET Close ESPN.com NBA writer since 2010 Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven years Author of two books Open Extended Reactions PARIS — It’s not a distinction anyone really wants, though its value is unquestioned: Kevin Durant has proven he’s probably the greatest player in basketball history

Open Extended Reactions Norwegian football will hold “open and democratic talks” over the use of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) ahead of a vote on its future in March, the president of the Football Association of Norway has announced. It comes after yet another game was stopped by protests — this time due to a

Jul 29, 2024, 10:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Canada Soccer and the Canadian Olympic Committee have filed a joint appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over the six-point deduction handed down by FIFA for drone spying at the Olympic Games in Paris. Canada women’s soccer coach Bev Priestman was suspended from

Associated Press Jul 28, 2024, 06:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MILWAUKEE — Miami’s Xavier Edwards became the second Marlins player ever to hit for the cycle Sunday in a 6-2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. Edwards hit his first career homer on the opening pitch of the game, drew a leadoff walk in the

Emily Kaplan, ESPNJul 28, 2024, 07:18 PM ET Close Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Open Extended Reactions SAINT-ETIENNE, France — As the Canada women’s soccer team improbably kept their Olympic hopes alive on Sunday, players said they wanted to let the world know one thing: the defending Gold medalists are not cheaters. Vanessa