Month: January 2019

3:01 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Free agent reliever Kelvin Herrera and the Chicago White Sox agreed on a two-year, $18 million contract that includes a vesting option for a third season, league sources familiar with the deal
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4:02 AM ET ESPN staff Lawrence Stroll has lofty ambitions for his Force India team. The Canadian billionaire purchased the team during the summer of 2018, saving it from administration in the process. His son Lance will join as one of its two drivers next season alongside the long-serving Sergio Perez. In recent seasons Force
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12:45 PM GMT ESPN staff Former South Africa captain and coach Johan Claassen has passed away at the age of 89. Claassen played 28 Tests between 1955 and 1962, when he was considered to rank among the game’s leading lineout exponents, and captained the side nine times. He played a total of 56 matches in
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2:58 AM ET Sidharth Monga in Sydney India’s celebratory dance moments after the Sydney Test was called off, thus sealing India’s first series win in Australia, may have just been a tribute to Cheteshwar Pujara, the highest run-getter and Man of the Series. Rishabh Pant, the wicketkeeper, started it, a bit of spot-jogging with the
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9:52 AM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — Former Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza earned a 6-3, 6-4 win over Carla Suarez Navarro on Monday after a day interrupted by rain at the Sydney International. Samantha Stosur, the 2011 US Open champion, had a rare win on Australian soil when she rallied to beat Dominika Cibulkova 3-6,
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6:31 AM ET Denis Shapovalov lost his first match of the 2019 tennis season as Joao Sousa came from a set down to advance to the second round of the ASB Classic in Auckland. The Canadian No. 7 seed, who enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2018, looked comfortable as he broke Sousa twice to win
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10:11 AM ET A run down of the key dates for any Formula One fan ahead of 2019 with a calendar of events which stretches from February all the way through to December. A look at the most compelling narratives likely to dominate the new year of Formula One, including Ferrari’s brewing intra-team battle and
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