Month: August 2022

3:01 AM BST Beaten 2-1 by England last month, the Wallabies open their Rugby Championship away to Argentina in Mendoza in front of what will no doubt be a hostile crowd. The South Americans, too, are buoyant after a series victory over Scotland, the 2-1 triumph clinched in dramatic fashion after the final siren to
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11:00 AM ET While he was at the beach this summer, Missouri coach Eliah Drinkwitz spent a couple of days thinking about the future of college football. “Somebody has to run it,” he said, “because right now, we are running amok.” “Who’s the boss in college football?” asked West Virginia coach Neal Brown. “That’s a
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6:05 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw left his start Thursday at San Francisco because of low back pain, the team said. Kershaw appeared to tweak something while he was warming up before the bottom of the fifth inning of the Dodgers’ 4-2 win. The three-time NL
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9:39 AM ET Oddsmakers have pegged the quest for the Premier League title as a two-horse race, with defending-champion Manchester City and Liverpool separated from the pack. Man City, who has won four of the last five EPL titles, is the odds favorite to win it again, listed at -165 at Caesars Sportsbooks. Liverpool, last
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12:39 PM ET The Oklahoma City Thunder have re-signed forward/center Mike Muscala, the team announced Thursday. Muscala had a team option for 2022-23 that Oklahoma City had previously declined. Terms of the signing were not released by the team. Muscala, 30, quietly had another excellent year as a sharpshooting big man for the rebuilding Thunder
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7:00 AM ET Los Angeles Kings president Luc Robitaille had just seen the future. It was a Stanley Cup Playoff game in May, and the Kings were putting some dizzying imagery on their arena video screens, with 3D images of players. “It was really cool, actually,” the Hockey Hall of Famer said. “The guys were
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4:21 AM BST Wallabies coach Dave Rennie says he has “no regrets” over Samu Kerevi’s Commonwealth Games participation, despite the powerhouse centre suffering a season-ending knee injury while on sevens duty in Birmingham. The decision to give Kerevi a second shot at a major international sevens medal – he contested the Olympics in Tokyo last
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4:17 PM ET ESPN News Services NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has chosen former New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey to hear the appeal of the six-game suspension for Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson. The NFL is seeking a tougher penalty under the league’s personal conduct policy in the wake of disciplinary officer Sue L.
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12:46 AM ET Associated Press SAN JOSE — Coco Gauff held off four-time major champion Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday night to advance to the quarterfinals at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic. Gauff, the No. 6 seed, held all of her serves in the opening set and finished the 45-minute session with three aces.
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