12:43 PM BST Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano will be cheering on his team from space when they take on South Africa in their pivotal Rugby World Cup clash. Parmitano will be watching Friday’s Pool B match from the International Space Station as it orbits some 400 kilometres above the earth. Italy are looking to upset
Month: October 2019
11:57 AM ET Associated Press BEIJING — Naomi Osaka won the final 10 games of the match and beat Alison Riske 6-4, 6-0 on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals at the China Open. The two-time Grand Slam champion from Japan served seven aces and stretched her winning streak to seven matches. “Today I was kind
10:31 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots plan to sign veteran kicker Mike Nugent after placing Stephen Gostkowski on injured reserve, league sources tell ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Nugent, 37, was one of seven kickers the Patriots worked out over the last two days. He is 253 of 311 on field goal attempts
1:48 AM ET OAKLAND — Pressure? You think a 92 mph fastball on the outside corner with a huge and vocal crowd bearing down on you in a playoff game is pressure? Try riding a raft to freedom from your native Cuba, after being caught once before, or playing winter league baseball in Venezuela, where
10:08 AM ET A Spanish team is pushing to join Formula One in 2021, with former Mercedes junior Pascal Wehrlein named as a driver. Ex-F1 driver Adrian Campos, who runs the Campos Racing team that competes in the world championship’s main feeder series, F2 and F3, is spearheading the project with team CEO Salvatore Gandolfo.
9:32 AM ET At this point, it’s the only question worth asking: Who will win Saturday night’s middleweight world title bout between Gennady Golovkin and Sergiy Derevyanchenko at Madison Square Garden in New York? Golovkin (39-1-1, 35 KOs) is coming off a dominant fourth-round KO victory over Steve Rolls in June. Derevyanchenko (13-1, 10 KOs)
9:41 AM ET All of a sudden, Sergio Pettis is a free agent. Following talks to book Pettis against Kai Kara-France at UFC 245, it was determined recently that Pettis’ UFC contract had expired and he is free to explore opportunities elsewhere, sources told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. Sources said Pettis isn’t ruling out a return
10:45 AM ET If Keshav Maharaj thought touring India would offer him ideal conditions to show off his skills, the first two days of the Test series would have made him think again. South Africa’s first-choice spinner had to bowl 34 overs before he saw any success and has described the Visakhapatnam surface as one
9:32 AM ET Alex DeBrincat has been known as a smaller player with a big game. Now he has a paycheck to match that game. The Chicago Blackhawks announced Thursday that they have signed the 21-year-old to a three-year extension with an annual average value of $6.4 million. DeBrincat is in the final year of
3:35 PM ET Guinea-Bissau goalkeeper Alberto Coli’s horror error saw him cost his side as they lost 2-0 to Guinea in the quarterfinals of the 2019 WAFU Cup of Nations Plate competition at the Stade Lat Dior in Thies, Senegal on Oct. 3. It was certainly not the most entertaining opening half with both teams