6:23 PM ET Brian Snitker has been named NL manager of the year after guiding the Atlanta Braves to the team’s first winning season, postseason berth and division title in five years. Snitker is the first Braves manager since Bobby Cox in 2005 to be named manager of the year and accomplished the feat with
Month: November 2018
3:00 AM ET Pakistan 139 for 6 (Javeria 74*, O’Reilly 3-19) beat Ireland 101 for 9 (Isobel Joyce 30, Shillington 27, Sandhu 2-8, Riaz 2-16) by 38 runs Nahida Khan congratulates Javeria Khan on her fifty ICC/Getty Ireland were exactly in the contest for eight overs after losing the toss. Then, they saw it sensationally slip.
5:15 PM ET Longtime British rivals Amir Khan and Kell Brook have made one thing clear — they want to fight each other in what has been a much-anticipated match for years. Everything appears lined up for them: They are on roughly the same schedule, they are both now with the same promoter in Matchroom
After Barcelona’s home defeat to Real Betis, the FC crew examine the club’s issues in the back, and Gab Marcotti questions their preparation. Lionel Messi scored twice in his return from injury, but Real Betis netted four goals of their own to win 4-3, spoiling the Blaugrana star’s return. Andres Iniesta has said it would
4:00 PM GMT A rugby player’s value to his or her team is best measured by the impact of their absence. Franco Mostert is one such player. The lock is one of the Springboks’ more understated players, a guy who goes through a Test match relatively unnoticed, but he is someone who shines in absence
Craig Burley breaks down Manchester City’s 3-1 win over Manchester United, which he says demonstrates the gap in quality between the two rivals. In a bid to deal with Brexit and boost the number of homegrown players, the English FA is planning to reduce the number of overseas players in Premier League squads to 12
3:41 PM ET The rematch between super middleweight world titleholder Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez and Jesse Hart was made official on Tuesday. They will meet in a sequel of their action-packed collision in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card on Dec. 14 (ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET) at the American Bank Center
2:56 PM GMT South Africa have released first choice scrumhalf Faf de Klerk to play for his club Sale Sharks this weekend, allowing him to miss Saturday’s test against Scotland at Murrayfield, officials confirmed on Tuesday. De Klerk started in the No. 9 jersey against France in Paris last weekend as the Springboks won 29-26,
8:52 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Most drivers in the NASCAR Cup series playoffs try to limit distractions. Kyle Busch, it seems, almost attracts them. And as long as they are fairly drama free, he accepts them. On the
2:16 PM ET Yair Rodriguez landed what some consider the greatest knockout in UFC history Saturday night in Denver, finishing Chan Sung Jung — best known as “The Korean Zombie” — with a brutal elbow to the chin with one second remaining in a back-and-forth bout. Jaws from those both inside the Pepsi Center and