Month: April 2022

All-rounder Ben Stokes was on Thursday named the captain of England’s men’s Test team by the England and Wales Cricket Board. The development comes after Joe Root resigned from the post earlier this month after a spate of losses, which included a 0-4 thrashing in the Ashes at the hands of Australia. England are at
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4:32 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Ralf Rangnick has proposed that the Manchester United squad vote on whether they want Harry Maguire to stay on as captain next season. Maguire was installed as skipper by former boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer shortly after his £80 million move from Leicester in 2019. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on
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11:37 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Giancarlo Stanton became the seventh-fastest player to reach 350 career home runs, launching a 417-foot drive to help the New York Yankees top the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 Wednesday night. Stanton reached the milestone in 1,341 games. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the only players to
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7:34 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — The Arizona Cardinals picked up quarterback Kyler Murray‘s fifth-year option on Wednesday, fulfilling the pledge general manager Steve Keim made earlier this year at the NFL combine. Murray, who was taken first overall in 2019, was set to enter the final year of his rookie contract, making him eligible
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12:45 AM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry dribbled through nearly the entire Denver Nuggets team before putting up the perfect tear-drop layup to put the Warriors up with 30 seconds left in the game Wednesday night. As he came down the court, he looked at the audience and clasped his hands under
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11:40 PM ET It’s official: Vegas will miss the NHL postseason for the first time in franchise history. The Golden Knights’ second-half collapse to this season left them with wafer-thin playoff hopes, and those were snuffed out entirely on Wednesday in a 4-3 shootout loss to host Chicago. To stay alive, Vegas would have had
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8:03 PM ET IRVING, Texas — One day after the NCAA announced president Mark Emmert will step down by 2023, several high-ranking leaders throughout college athletics on Wednesday agreed it’s the right time to find a new leader, but the position is as ambiguous as the future of the organization itself. “It’s a unicorn,” Pac-12
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5:12 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — The New York Mets‘ hit-by-pitch frustrations boiled over Wednesday when reliever Yoan Lopez threw a pitch near Nolan Arenado‘s head, sparking a benches-clearing brawl that led to Arenado’s ejection in the St. Louis Cardinals‘ 10-5 victory. Arenado reached base four times and drove in three runs before
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7:08 PM ET Phoenix Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker is progressing on a return soon, possibly for Game 6 on Thursday or a potential Game 7 on Saturday in the franchise’s Western Conference first-round playoff series against the New Orleans Pelicans, sources told ESPN. Booker has made significant progress with his strained right hamstring in
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4:40 PM ET Associated Press MUNICH — Danish teenager Holger Rune upset top-seeded Alexander Zverev 6-3, 6-2 Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the BMW Open tennis tournament. The 18-year-old broke Zverev’s first service game in each set to take control of the match on his way to his first career win over a player
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5:42 PM ET Associated Press Fifth seed Frances Tiafoe overcame a resilient wildcard Nuno Borges 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-0 in the second round of the ATP 250 Millennium Estoril Open on Wednesday. A tie-break was required to decide the opening set, which the 25-year-old clinched 7-4, before home-favourite Borges fought back in the second to
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1:28 PM ET An important heavyweight bout between knockout king Derrick Lewis and the surging Sergei Pavlovich is targeted for a UFC card on July 30, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The UFC has yet to announce an event on that date, but the expectation is that it will be the UFC 277 pay-per-view event,
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