12:53 PM ET MONTMELO, Spain — A late lap from Lewis Hamilton offered a tantilising glimpse of what qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix could look like, with the best times of Ferrari and Mercedes split by a fraction of a second at the end of the final day of preseason testing. The common consensus
Month: March 2019
11:35 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN In a season that was lost months ago, the Ottawa Senators, the worst team in the NHL, have fired coach Guy Boucher, the team announced Friday. Assistant coach Marc Crawford was named as the team’s interim coach. The Senators (22-37-5) dealt their three leading goal-scorers at the trade deadline, sending
9:32 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN UNIONDALE, NY — Kiernan Hanrahan was wearing a New York Islanders jersey to a New York Islanders home game, and yet it felt like he was walking into enemy territory. “We were a little concerned coming in,” he admitted, standing in the concourse at Nassau Coliseum. That’s because Hanrahan was
Sir Alex Ferguson sent Fulham interim manager Scott Parker a detailed text following his appointment on Thursday. Fulham caretaker manager Scott Parker said a message from former Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson had inspired him ahead of a difficult rescue mission at the struggling Premier League side. Relegation-threatened Fulham dismissed Claudio Ranieri on Thursday and
11:46 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — When tight end Jason Witten walked away from football last May, his teammates gave him a long, standing ovation, recognizing a successful 15-year career that placed him among the greatest to play for the Dallas Cowboys. It wasn’t just the catches, yards and touchdowns that made Witten great — it
7:15 AM ET Australia’s attack on tour in India is already depleted in the injury-enforced absence of Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood. Under the circumstances, they certainly don’t want to risk losing Pat Cummins too in the lead-up to the World Cup. With Australia set to play back-to-back five-match ODI series in India and then
7:40 AM ET MONTMELO, Spain — With just two weeks remaining before the first race of the 2019 Formula One season, Lewis Hamilton believes his Mercedes is 0.5s per lap slower than the pace-setting Ferrari. Ferrari finished the first week of testing looking like the most confident team and, so far, all the data suggests
New Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers reveals why he’s chosen to leave the Scottish champions for the Foxes. New Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers has brushed aside suggestions that he moved to a “mediocre club” after leaving Scottish champions Celtic to return to the Premier League. Rodgers, who won the domestic Treble twice in Scotland,
7:18 AM ET Amy Olson of the USA leads the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore — Mar. 1, 2019. ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images U.S. golfer Amy Olson kept a chasing group behind to lead at the halfway mark of the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. The world No. 36 is two
1:57 AM ET HOUSTON — It has reached a point where the Houston Rockets seem almost desensitized to James Harden producing historic statistics. As far as they were concerned, Harden’s 58 points and 10 assists were practically a footnote in the Rockets’ 121-118 comeback win over the Miami Heat on Thursday. “He had a terrific