11:33 PM ET Substitute Andy Rose scored in the 87th minute to lift the Whitecaps to a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Rapids after Vancouver gave back a two-goal, first-half lead on Friday night in Commerce City, Colorado. Rose’s winner came 10 minutes after Colorado’s Diego Rubio was ejected for making contact in the face
Month: May 2019
Gio Reyna, a son of former U.S. national team captain Claudio Reyna, sparked a comeback from a two-goal deficit with an assist, then converted a free kick to put the Americans ahead in their 3-2 victory over Canada on Thursday night in their opener at the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship. Canada went ahead 2-0 on goals
2:41 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — With his Philadelphia 76ers taking a 2-1 series lead over a Toronto Raptors team led by Kawhi Leonard and his 37.7 points per game so far in the Eastern Conference semifinals, coach Brett Brown was asked a simple question. When Joel Embiid is healthy, does Brown believe he has the
2:44 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff A back niggle has brought an early end to Kagiso Rabada‘s IPL season. Cricket South Africa has advised that the fast bowler return home as a precautionary measure ahead of the 2019 World Cup, which begins on May 30 with the tournament-opener between South Africa and hosts England. Rabada, the
8:23 AM ET Melbourne Victory showed their title-winning pedigree to kick off the A-League finals, progressing to the last four with a 3-1 dismissal of Wellington Phoenix at AAMI Park. Georg Niedermeier, Kosta Barbarouses and Ola Toivonen scored the goals while Keisuke Honda and Raul Baena marshalled the midfield against a physical Phoenix outfit, who
10:37 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Moments after the San Francisco 49ers used a fifth-round draft choice on linebacker Dre Greenlaw, a grateful father took to Twitter to thank Greenlaw for protecting his daughter at a fraternity party in 2015. Gerry Daly, who goes by @GerryDales on his Twitter handle, posted a series of
10:09 PM ET The Washington Nationals have fired pitching coach Derek Lilliquist, general manager Mike Rizzo announced after the team’s 2-1 win against the Cardinals on Thursday night. Lilliquist had served in the role since November 2017. Washington minor league pitching coordinator Paul Menhart, who has been in that role since 2015, will replace Lilliquist,
10:08 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Middleweight world titlist Demetrius Andrade has never fought in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, even though he has been a professional since 2008, following his stint on the U.S. Olympic team. But now Andrade will finally get the opportunity. Andrade will make his second title defense at the
9:45 PM ET Associated Press DALY CITY, Calif. — Long-hitting Anne van Dam of the Netherlands two-putted for birdie on the par-5 18th for a 5-under 67 and a share of the first-round lead Thursday with South Koreans So Yeon Ryu and Eun-Hee Ji in the LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship. The 23-year-old van Dam bogeyed two
7:32 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rory McIlroy made the most of his game and turned it into a 5-under 66 that gave him a share of the lead with Joel Dahmen after the opening round Thursday at the Wells Fargo Championship. McIlroy, a two-time winner at Quail Hollow, twice made birdie when