Month: September 2019

11:19 AM ET Associated Press VIRGINIA WATER, England — A fast start by Danny Willett and a sublime finish by Jon Rahm helped them into a share of the clubhouse lead in the second round at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth on Friday. Willett was 5 under after his first five holes and rolled
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11:11 AM ET Associated Press OSAKA, Japan — Fourth-seeded Angelique Kerber advanced to the semifinals of the Toray Pan Pacific Open on Friday after Madison Keys retired injured in the deciding set. Kerber led 6-4, 4-6, 2-1 when the fifth-seeded Keys retired. “It was a really good match in the first two sets, and this
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10:41 AM ET The main event pitting two of the UFC’s most exciting featherweights is official, as Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens both weighed in at 145 pounds even Friday morning. The two men will meet in the UFC Mexico City feature bout Saturday night on ESPN+. Both have been training at altitude in Mexico
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9:25 AM ET Howard “Hopalong” Cassady, the 1955 Heisman Trophy winner from Ohio State who after his football career worked more than 30 years for the New York Yankees organization, has died at the age of 85. According to Ohio State, Cassady died early Friday morning in Tampa, Florida. Cassady starred as a halfback for
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9:24 AM BST Ireland must do without the experience of Rob Kearney and Keith Earls in their World Cup opener against Scotland Sunday after the pair were unable to prove their fitness in time for Friday’s team announcement. Munster’s Andrew Conway will take the place of Ireland’s record World Cup try scorer Earls on the
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Sebi Salazar recaps Mexico’s humbling defeat to Argentina, which was Tata Martino’s first loss as El Tri manager. MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s football federation and Liga MX are set to crack down on the controversial goalkeeper chant that FIFA has ruled anti-gay, with clubs set to play behind closed doors if the chant continues and
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Sep 19, 2019 Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Nottinghamshire go into Finals Day’s first quarter-final as favourites with the bookmakers, but have struggled in recent games against Worcestershire. Player-on-player match-ups and tactical phases are a crucial part of modern T20’s vocabulary: here are the battles
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