10:28 AM GMT PARIS: French hopes of posting a morale-boosting win in the build-up to next year’s World Cup were dashed in a dramatic finish to Saturday’s test against South Africa, much to the bitter disappointment of both their coach and captain. “It’s a cruel scenario,” coach Jacques Brunel told reporters after France squandered a
Month: November 2018
11:53 AM ET Louisville has fired coach Bobby Petrino as the Cardinals have stumbled to a 2-8 record this season, athletic director Vince Tyra announced Sunday. Louisville’s season has bottomed out during a seven-game losing streak and a five-game stretch of ACC defeats by at least 18 points, including blowout losses to Clemson and Syracuse
10:57 AM ET Bills rookie quarterback Josh Allen, who has been ruled out of Sunday’s game against the Jets because of an elbow injury that sidelined him the past three games, is expected to be ready to return after Buffalo’s bye Nov. 25 against the Jaguars, a source tells ESPN. Allen has been pushing to
10:19 AM ET Associated Press PRAGUE — Katerina Siniakova won the first reverse singles on Sunday to lead the Czech Republic to its sixth Fed Cup title in eight years. Siniakova defeated Sofia Kenin 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 to give the Czechs an insurmountable 3-0 lead over the defending champion United States in the best-of-five final.
10:30 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Yadier Molina and J.T. Realmuto both homered Sunday to lead the MLB All-Stars to a 7-3 win over Japan for their first win of the six-game exhibition series. Realmuto hit a solo homer to right in the fourth at Tokyo Dome and Mitch Haniger scored on a throwing
3:00 AM ET Toss: Pakistan opt to bat v New Zealand Trent Boult and Matt Henry skittled out West Indies’ top order quickly Getty Images Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed won the toss and chose to bat in the series decider in Dubai. After Trent Boult’s hat-trick set up New Zealand’s victory in the first match, Pakistan
8:27 AM ET Lee Westwood bagged five birdies on his back nine to storm to victory in the Nedbank Golf Challenge at the Gary Player Country Club on Sunday, his first title on the European Tour for four years. Westwood, 45, carded a faultless 64 that included an eagle and six birdies for a tournament
11:45 PM ET Andre SnellingsESPN The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to trade Jimmy Butler and Justin Patton to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for Robert Covington, Dario Saric, Jerryd Bayless and a second-round pick. On an organizational level, this is a rare win-win deal in which both teams get great value. But on an individual
FC’s Paul Mariner provides his thoughts on transfer rumours surrounding Mauro Icardi, Adam Lallana, Keylor Navas and more in Transfer Rater. With the winter window opening in little more than six weeks, the rumour mill is beginning to gather pace. Who will be moving where come January? Transfer Talk has the latest. ‘Isolated’ Sanchez wants
Nov 10, 2018 Uganda’s hopes of a top-two finish at WCL Division Three in Oman were thrown into chaos during their loss to USA, when allrounder Irfan Afridi – the leading wicket-taker at WCL Division Four in May – was allegedly told by an umpire that he would be no-balled for a suspect action if