8:45 PM ET ESPN staff After a slight weather delay, Game 3 of the World Series is here. 1 Related The Philadelphia Phillies took Game 1 in exciting fashion, engineering a comeback from being down 5-0 to the Houston Astros. The Astros, however, jumped out to another 5-0 lead in Game 2, and that time
Month: November 2022
7:13 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Billie Jean King gets why No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek decided to skip the Billie Jean King Cup Finals because they are right after — and half a world away from — the WTA Finals. King just figures she would have made a different choice. “I can
7:17 PM ET GRAPEVINE, Texas — Undefeated Tennessee earned the No. 1 spot in the College Football Playoff’s initial Top 25 ranking Tuesday night, marking the first time in the program’s history it cracked the top four, followed by No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 Clemson. The 13-member committee ranked undefeated
4:06 PM ET Alaina Getzenberg Stephen Holder BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Bills added the versatile running back the team has been searching for to add to their top-ranked offense by trading for Indianapolis Colts running back Nyheim Hines on Tuesday in exchange for running back Zack Moss and a conditional 2023 sixth-round pick that can
7:18 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — Lightning star defenseman Victor Hedman was scratched from the lineup for Tuesday night’s game against the Ottawa Senators because of an undisclosed upper-body injury. The Lightning said Hedman is day-to-day. Hedman missed around half of the first period in Saturday’s game against San Jose after being checked
7:21 PM ET Tottenham Hotspur survived a scare in Marseille before fighting back to win 2-1 at the Stade Velodrome on Tuesday and clinch a place in the Champions League last 16 as group winners. Spurs, with coach Antonio Conte serving a one-game suspension from the touchline, went behind the French side in stoppage time
2:52 PM ET The Brooklyn Nets are finalizing a deal to hire suspended Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka, and a formal agreement is expected to be reached as soon as Wednesday, sources told ESPN. After parting with coach Steve Nash, the Nets are bringing back Udoka to try and salvage a reeling franchise amid turmoil
4:12 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The WBA on Tuesday ordered a fight between Amanda Serrano and Erika Cruz for the undisputed featherweight title, according to the organization’s Twitter account. The sides will have 30 days to close a deal before a purse bid is ordered. Serrano (43-2-1, 30 KOs) holds the WBO, WBA and IBF
2:42 PM BST After a entree serving of Test rugby at the weekend, we’re set for the main course over three delicious sittings in November. From Edinburgh to Cardiff, London to Paris, and a few other cities in between, it really is smorgasbord of rugby action over the next few weeks. Read on for all
Nov 1, 2022 Romania’s Sorana Cirstea has said brands value players’ looks above their performance while drawing up contracts, saying that Adidas told her “it’s better to look good and be in top 20 than to not look that good and be No. 1.” Cirstea, who is ranked No. 38 in the women’s singles, made
7:00 AM ET There’s a famous story about Brad Marchand‘s exit meetings in Boston after his rookie season. Throughout Marchand’s draft process and early in his pro hockey career, he was often reminded of what he couldn’t achieve. NHL teams believed he was too small (a 5-foot-9 forward was especially undersized as he was breaking
1:05 PM ET ESPN staff The 2022 NFL trade deadline is here, as teams have until 4 p.m. ET Tuesday to make deals. Among the teams that could try to add talent is the Buffalo Bills, who have needs at running back and along the offensive line. The Los Angeles Rams could soon trade away
1:03 PM ET Steve Nash is out as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, the team announced Tuesday. The decision to part ways was mutual between the Nets and Nash, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. “We want to thank Steve for everything he brought to our franchise over the past two-plus seasons,” general manager Sean
10:56 AM ET Pedro Grifol is expected to be the next manager of the Chicago White Sox, an announcement that could come later this week, according to multiple sources. Grifol, 52, has been on the staff of the Kansas City Royals since 2013, most recently as the bench coach. The Royals interviewed him recently for
10:32 AM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Pete Thamel Georgia outside linebacker Nolan Smith, the No. 1-ranked Bulldogs’ leading pass-rusher this season, will miss the rest of the season with a torn pectoral muscle, sources confirmed
11:47 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Rafael Nadal is a different man. He’s losing sleep over his newborn baby and not so much the No. 1 ranking. Even with all of his absences, Nadal has a shot at finishing the season as the world No. 1. He has racked up 5,820 points, trailing only
11:31 AM ET Free agency is coming to LIV Golf. Only two days after capturing LIV Golf’s first team championship at Trump National Doral in Miami, 4 Aces GC captain Dustin Johnson is shaking up his team’s roster for 2023, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. Talor Gooch is moving to the Niblicks GC, which
Dewald Brevis scored 162 off 57 balls in the CSA T20 Challenge match.© Twitter A world record 501 runs were scored in a South Africa domestic T20 match between Titans and Knights here, which also saw a slew of milestones being reached. Invited to bat, the Titans posted 271 for 3 in their allotted 20