Month: October 2019

9:35 AM ET Florida coach Dan Mullen said he expects injured defensive starters Jonathan Greenard and Jabari Zuniga, along with wideout Kadarius Toney, to be available by the time the seventh-ranked Gators play the No. 10 Georgia Bulldogs on Nov. 2 in Jacksonville. “We expect those guys to be back,” Mullen told the radio show
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8:22 AM BST World Rugby is set to talk with referee Jaco Peyper about a photograph which appeared on social media of him with a group of Wales rugby fans taken after he sent off France second-row Sébastien Vahaamahina in their Rugby World Cup quarterfinal. The photograph appeared on social media of referee Peyper with
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7:42 AM BST TOKYO — England coach Eddie Jones said his team were spied on at training Tuesday ahead of their Rugby World Cup semifinal against New Zealand and also turned up the heat on the All Blacks saying all the pressure is on the current champions. Jones said an individual was spotted in one
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7:30 AM ET Associated Press MOSCOW — A Russian hockey team has been fined after its coach threatened to set fire to a referee’s car. The Kontinental Hockey League fined Amur Khabarovsk 300,000 rubles ($4,700) after coach Alexander Gulyavtsev shouted “I’m going to set fire to your car in Perm,” a reference to the Russian
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Play 04:32 Faf du Plessis will continue to captain South Africa despite overseeing one of their worst Test results since readmission – he sees it as his responsibility to ease them through the transition. South Africa last suffered successive innings defeats in Tests in 1935-36, and though they have been whitewashed by Australia twice since
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12:50 AM ET How will Saturday’s injury to Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa impact the race for the College Football Playoff? How will Saturday’s top games affect the College Football Playoff chase? What are the current odds for making the top four? The Allstate Playoff Predictor has the answers. Check back every week as the odds
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1:38 AM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — Australia captain Lleyton Hewitt says he has been willing to overlook Nick Kyrgios‘s recent outbursts on the ATP Tour to select the talented but wayward star in his team for the revamped Davis Cup finals. Kyrgios is currently serving six months probation on the ATP tour after a
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11:54 PM ET Super middleweight contender Avni Yildirim is off the hook for his positive drug test for two banned substances and has been reinstated as the mandatory challenger for world titleholder David Benavidez, the WBC announced. Yildirim tested positive for two performance-enhancing drugs in samples collected by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association on Sept. 13
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11:34 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Emboldened by his terrific Week 6 performance, New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold entered Monday night playing and talking like a true franchise quarterback. By the second quarter of the Jets’ 33-0 loss to the New England Patriots, he was talking like a beaten man. “I’m seeing ghosts,”
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11:18 PM ET HOUSTON — The Houston Astros issued a statement late Monday denying a Sports Illustrated report regarding the behavior of a team executive in the aftermath of the club’s pennant-clinching win in the ALCS on Saturday. According to the report, during the postgame celebration in the Houston clubhouse after the Astros’ 6-4 win
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