Month: October 2018

  shares Play 00:50 Mohammad Abbas, Pakistan’s second-fastest to 50 Test wickets On the heels of becoming the joint second-fastest Pakistani to 50 Test wickets, Mohammad Abbas has risen 11 places to No. 3 on the bowling rankings. That leaves only James Anderson (899 points) and Kagiso Rabada (882) ahead of him. Abbas played a
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2:32 AM ET Associated Press JEJU ISLAND, South Korea — Brooks Koepka is golf’s new No. 1 after he won the CJ Cup at Nine Bridges on Sunday by four strokes. Koepka, who displaced Dustin Johnson for the world’s top ranking, shot a final-round 8-under 64 for a 21-under total of 267. Koepka, who had
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12:51 AM ET BOSTON — Tevin Farmer, with a massive speed and skill advantage, retained his junior lightweight world title for the first time with a one-sided, fifth-round destruction of James Tennyson on the Demetrius Andrade-Walter Kautondokwa undercard Saturday night at TD Garden. Farmer found a home early and often for his left hand, while
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1:28 AM ET BOSTON — Demetrius Andrade was facing the ultimate unknown opponent in Walter Kautondokwa, but he figured him out quickly and had no issues. Andrade scored four knockdowns and cruised to a blowout decision to win a vacant middleweight world title against the late replacement before 6,874 on Saturday night at the TD
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2:15 AM ET MILWAUKEE — After seven fascinating games full of strategy, game-changing moments, constant substitutions and occasional testiness, talent simply won out in the end. Game 7 slugging and a little bit of swagger gave the Dodgers the lead they needed to finally get past the Brewers and return to the Fall Classic. The
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2:13 AM ET WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Late in the fourth quarter, as Purdue prepared to celebrate the biggest win in recent team history, Tyler Trent joined the party on the field at Ross-Ade Stadium. After a stunning 49-20 loss to Purdue, Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer said that despite signs of trouble in previous
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11:02 PM ET ESPN News Services GREENVILLE, N.C. — Heisman Trophy hopeful McKenzie Milton did not start or play at quarterback in No. 10 UCF’s 37-10 over East Carolina on Saturday. Team spokesman Andy Seeley said before the game that Milton’s lineup absence was a game-time decision by coach Josh Heupel. Darriel Mack Jr. made
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Craig Counsell, raised in Milwaukee, has vivid memories of the 1982 Brewers team that advanced to the World Series and his superstitions — “routines,” he insists — around them. He walked the right-field ramp at County Stadium in the seventh inning every time his team needed runs, including when Cecil Cooper came up with the
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10:29 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — Brittany Bowlen, one of Pat Bowlen’s seven children, said Saturday night she’s hoping to one day succeed her father as principal owner of the Denver Broncos. Sanders threw a TD and caught one, joining elite Broncos company. Sanders even planned to ice his arm after the TD pass
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