11:01 PM BST Beauden Barrett will start at No. 10 in his 100th Test for the All Blacks, the pivot given the honour of selection in the run-on side for his milestone match. The selection means Richie Mo’unga returns to the bench after he started last week’s massive win over the United States, as coach
Month: October 2021
8:10 PM ET Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin has agreed to a three-year contract to become the San Diego Padres‘ new manager, a source confirmed to ESPN. The A’s had picked up his 2022 option but allowed him to interview for the Padres job. Melvin, 60, had been the A’s manager the past 11 seasons
7:00 AM ET ON THE LAST day of the 2002 season, Sept. 29, I notched the 1,000th hit of my career, a single to left against the Marlins in Florida. My Philadelphia Phillies were about to head home under .500, so it felt nice to have something to celebrate. But that joy would be short-lived.
7:40 AM ET FOUR YEARS AGO Majdi Shammas was on the second floor of Allstars Training Center, the martial arts facility he owns in Stockholm, when he heard a disturbance downstairs. It sounded like someone was fighting. And not the kind of fighting that goes on in Shammas’ gym seven days a week. No, it
David Warner’s fifty helped Australia cruise to victory against Sri Lanka on Thursday.© AFP David Warner finally found himself among the runs as he smashed a half-century to help Australia defeat Sri Lanka by seven wickets on Thursday in their T20 World Cup’s Super 12 fixture at the Dubai International Stadium in Dubai. The Aussie
7:58 PM ET Associated Press IRVING, Texas — Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford, Iowa State All-America tight end Charlie Kolar and Michigan star defensive end Aidan Hutchinson are among 13 finalists for the Campbell Trophy, which honors the top scholar-athlete in college football. The National Football Foundation chooses finalists from all levels of college football,
11:05 AM ET Bowl Season executives who oversee the operation of 43 postseason bowl games sent a letter this week to hundreds of leaders in college football asking that any future College Football Playoff games in potential expansion models be held at bowl sites instead of on campus, according to a copy of the letter
6:40 PM ET Associated Press SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda — Brandon Hagy and Chad Ramey avoided the worst of the wind Thursday afternoon, each with a 6-under 65 to share the lead in the Bermuda Championship when the opening round at Port Royal was halted by darkness. For those who started in the morning, it might have
On a freezing cold December night, thousands gathered at New York’s Madison Square Garden. With the smell of chicken and potatoes cooked over oil stoves hanging in the midnight air, the crowd chattered and beat their hands together, trying to stay warm. From a small canvas tent by the side of a wooden, banked oval
9:58 AM ET Reus is unique in that he joined Dortmund in his early 20s but, rather than making a big move in his prime like so many of his teammates, he chose to stay. Alexandre Simoes/Borussia Dortmund/Getty Images Marco Reus is old. He’s 32, which is young-ish for the general population — he’s only two
2:27 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Jose Uzcategui tested positive for the banned substance rEPO, multiple sources told ESPN, and he’s been pulled from his Nov. 13 fight with David Benavidez. Benavidez, ESPN’s No. 2 super middleweight, will face a new opponent in the Showtime main event on Nov. 13 in Phoenix, Arizona, sources said. Recombinant
2:00 AM ET HOUSTON — Astros second baseman Jose Altuve might not have the gaudy stats he’s used to this postseason but he continues to come up big in the bigger moments in October. Altuve went 2-for-5 with a home run, his 22nd career blast in the playoffs, as Houston won Game 2 of the
2:15 PM ET U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu eased into the Transylvania Open quarterfinals with a controlled 6-3 6-4 win over home favourite Ana Bogdan in the second round on Thursday. Raducanu followed up her maiden WTA Tour win over Polona Hercog — a battling three-set victory on Tuesday — with a much improved performance
7:49 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN When COVID took hold of the world in March 2020, it also greatly hampered sports, but perhaps none more so than boxing. After all, the fight game hinges on major live gates to deliver its truly marquee events. While the other major sports leagues experienced plenty of pauses and cancellations,
7:25 AM ET We’re seven weeks into the 2021 NFL season, and the first-year cornerbacks continue to flex their collective muscles. Three of them make the second edition of our rookie rankings. And while our top 10 has some movement, once again only one quarterback made the cut. It’s actually a pass-catcher atop the board
12:44 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Kayla Harrison‘s dominance of the PFL continues. For the second consecutive season, Harrison has captured the PFL lightweight championship. She did so with ease Wednesday at the Hard Rock Live; she attempted 90 strikes and landed all but five of them en route to an armbar submission
1:04 PM BST Fly-half Gareth Anscombe will face the land of his birth after returning to the Wales side for the first time in over two years when they face New Zealand in their autumn international test in Cardiff on Saturday. Auckland-born Anscombe has been preferred to Rhys Priestland in the No. 10 jersey as
T20 WC: Nicholas Pooran described Kieron Pollard as a “wonderful captain.© Twitter West Indies batter Nicholas Pooran described Kieron Pollard as a “wonderful captain” on Thursday as the defending champions face a T20 World Cup survival battle against equally hapless Bangladesh. The West Indies have lost both of their Super 12 matches so far and another
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