7:46 AM ET Associated Press Poland had not been to the World Cup in 52 years. It’s making up for lost time. Poland is in the driver’s seat for a quarterfinal berth next week after beating Russia 79-74 in a second-round opener on Friday in Foshan, China. Adam Waczynski scored 18 points and Mateusz Ponitka
Month: September 2019
Two Russian national team football players were granted parole on Friday after serving part of their prison sentences for a series of brawls. Zenit St. Petersburg forward Alexander Kokorin and FC Krasnodar midfielder Pavel Mamayev were arrested last October after being accused of two attacks — one against a man in a Moscow hotel parking
4:56 AM BST Wallabies back row star David Pocock will retire from Test rugby after the upcoming World Cup. Pocock will captain the Wallabies against Samoa in Sydney on Saturday, in what will now be his final test in Australia and his 78th overall. “I feel like it’s time for me to move onto other
The U.S. always hate losing to Mexico but even the most ardent of supporters could find little fault with Friday night’s 3-0 defeat at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez opened the scoring with a sharp, predatory effort following Jesus “Tecatito” Corona‘s cheeky nutmeg of U.S. debutant Sergino Dest to set up
1:53 AM ET CHICAGO — Aaron Rodgers wanted Matt LaFleur to have the game ball after the new Green Bay Packers coach’s first win, and he also wanted LaFleur to know something else after the quarterback and his offense struggled. So after Rodgers kneeled on the final play of the Packers’ 10-3 victory over the
1:37 AM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and interim titleholder Dustin Poirier each made weight on Friday ahead of their 155-pound unification clash at UFC 242. Nurmagomedov (27-0) was the first fighter on the scale at the Crowne Plaza hotel on Friday morning, local time, and weighed in
1:34 AM BST Backline veteran Adam Ashley-Cooper is excited about Australia’s prospects, describing the 2019 group as the most connected of the four Wallabies World Cup squads in which he’s been selected. The 35-year-old utility back will win his 119th cap against Samoa in Sydney on Saturday, when Australia play their last Test before the
9:53 AM ET Mike Minor starts Saturday for the Rangers against the Orioles and with a good outing — a strong possibility given the opponent — Minor could move into the lead for the best individual pitching season in Rangers history, at least via Baseball-Reference WAR. I’ve been slightly obsessed with Minor’s WAR for most
9:46 AM ET In Afghanistan’s captaincy debacle this year, Rahmat Shah unwittingly led the side in no Tests after being named captain. That’s right. After he was named in their leadership reshuffle in April, Rashid Khan replaced him in July. Going by what he achieved today in Chattogram, becoming Afghanistan’s first Test centurion, even a
1:05 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN NEW YORK — After dropping the first set of her first grand slam quarterfinal to Elise Mertens in lifeless, error-ridden fashion, Bianca Andreescu walked to her chair at Arthur Ashe Stadium, her frustration seemingly dripping off her like sweat. She sat in her chair, rummaged through her bag to find
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