Month: May 2019

10:24 AM BST Wallabies flanker David Pocock is expected to confirm that 2019 will be his last season in Australian rugby when he fronts a media conference on Tuesday, a report on the Rugby Australia website rugby.com.au said on Monday. The 31-year-old openside is struggling with a long-term calf injury and has played only for
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9:00 AM ET With his close-cropped hair and gentlemanly manners, Bart Starr will always be remembered as a player from another age, a poster boy, if you will, of the silent majority — the quarterback who dutifully executed the orders of the game’s greatest field general, Vince Lombardi. In the 1960s, he played John Glenn
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6:42 AM BST Karmichael Hunt’s hopes of a return to the Australia squad ahead of the World Cup have been dealt a blow with the New South Wales Waratahs utility back expected to miss the rest of the Super Rugby season with a knee injury. Hunt went down with a suspected medial ligament injury in
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7:31 AM ET MONTE CARLO, Monaco — The word “reserved” is not one you would normally associate with Max Vetstappen’s racing style, but it is how Christian Horner described his impressive Monaco Grand Prix performance. For most of the race, Verstappen placed struggling race leader Lewis Hamilton under enormous pressure, often getting agonisingly close to
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Inter held on to the last Champions League spot while Empoli slipped into the relegation zone in a frantic 2-1 win for the Nerazzurri at the San Siro. ESPN FC’s Gab Marcotti zeroes in on Inter’s late drama against Empoli and Atalanta’s ‘unreal’ season after both sides secured Champions League spots. Paolo Bandini joins the
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