Month: September 2022

10:49 AM BST Wasps have announced their intention to appoint administrators in order to “protect” their interests, a statement from the club’s holding company said on Wednesday. The decision puts the former Premiership and European champions on the brink of relegation, with Rugby Football Union (RFU) regulations stating a club placed in administration once the
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9:27 AM ET Every word written to describe Roger Federer‘s incredible game was true, every misguided attempt at prose forgivable. He glided around the court, feet seemingly leaving the ground at his serve and not touching again until the point was over. He boasted the game’s best and most precise serve for nearly 20 years.
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11:02 PM ET Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka is facing disciplinary action expected to include a significant suspension for his role in a consensual, intimate relationship with a woman who is a member of the franchise’s staff, sources told ESPN on Wednesday night. The relationship was considered a violation of the organization’s guidelines, and a
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3:08 AM ET ESPN News Services Naomi Osaka‘s title defense at her home Pan Pacific Open ended Thursday when the former world No. 1 withdrew ahead of her second-round match against Beatriz Haddad Maia due to abdominal pain. “I am really sorry that I am not able to compete today,” Osaka said in a statement.
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3:45 AM BST Wallabies coach Dave Rennie has brought back promising No. 8 Harry Wilson for this weekend’s Rugby Championship finale against the All Blacks, while Bernard Foley has retained his spot at No. 10 for the Eden Park clash. Wilson joins Cadeyrn Neville in the forward pack as the only two changes to an
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12:10 AM BST Australia’s Darcy Swain has been suspended for six weeks for the Bledisloe Cup incident that left New Zealand’s Quinn Tupaea with a bad knee injury. Tupaea suffered a ruptured medial cruciate ligament (MCL) and a partial anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear in his left knee after Swain entered a ruck and made
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Sep 22, 2022 Liam Napier Consistently inconsistent, convincingly unconvincing, remains the theme of this All Blacks season. There have been times in this year’s four-win, four-loss, campaign where the All Blacks broke from their turbulent shackles to regain the conviction long associated with their legacy. In those periods they produce the all-court rugby only they
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Sep 22, 2022 All Blacks skipper Sam Cane will miss the Rugby Championship decider against Australia, with Sam Whitelock leading New Zealand as they chase the title. Coach Ian Foster has made five changes to the team that pocketed the Bledisloe Cup for another year with their 39-37 triumph in Melbourne last Thursday. Cane, who
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2:43 PM ET Associated Press AMHERST, Mass. — The University of Massachusetts is planning to hold a Pride Day on the same day that the Minutemen host evangelical college Liberty in a football game. The school made the “special announcement” Sunday on Twitter in a 37-second video featuring techno music and a uniformed player standing
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3:25 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray said Wednesday that he has “no hard feelings” toward the person who hit him in the face while Murray was celebrating his team’s 29-23 overtime win Sunday over the Las Vegas Raiders. Murray said he didn’t feel like he got attacked when he was amid
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7:00 AM ET Inspirational thought of the week: It’s the sport of kings,Better than diamond ringsThat’s why we’re here to sing …Football. — “Football Rap” LL Cool J Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, located in a Boone, North Carolina, infirmary next to the eyewash station being used to rid Appalachian State students of pink eye
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6:43 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball COSTA MESA, Calif. — Six days removed from suffering a fracture to his rib cartilage, Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert is considered day-to-day ahead of a
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