Month: December 2018

9:17 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — The French tennis federation says Sebastien Grosjean has been appointed as the country’s Davis Cup captain. Grosjean takes over from Yannick Noah after Amelie Mauresmo pulled out to focus on her new coaching job with French player Lucas Pouille. Amelie Mauresmo won’t be captaining France’s Davis Cup team
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10:23 AM GMT ESPN staff South Africa will play Japan in a final Rugby World Cup warm-up fixture two weeks before facing the New Zealand All Blacks in their opening fixture of the global showpiece in Yokohama. The fixture will be played on Friday, Sep. 6 at Kumagaya Rugby Stadium in Saitama, north of Tokyo.
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8:10 AM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The Indiana Pacers are hiring longtime WNBA executive Kelly Krauskopf as the first female assistant general manager in NBA history, league sources told ESPN on Monday. Krauskopf will work with the Pacers basketball operations staff, including President of Basketball Operations Kevin Pritchard, general manager Chad Buchanan and assistant GM Peter
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7:28 AM ET By his own admission, the 2018 season was the worst of Valtteri Bottas’ career. Driving an identical car to the one that secured the drivers’ championship and 11 race wins with Lewis Hamilton at the wheel, he failed to score a single victory. But, for next year at least, Mercedes is standing
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Dec 17, 2018 Scott Johnson has been appointed Director of Rugby to oversee coach Michael Cheika, as part of a restructure aimed at boosting the struggling Wallabies going into the 2019 World Cup. Cheika will report to Johnson, who will return home in mid-March after a decade working in the USA and Europe, most recently
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