Month: October 2019

1:45 PM ET Tiger Woods‘ annual tournament to benefit his foundation will boast several players from the U.S. team he will captain a week later at the Presidents Cup and eight of the top 10-ranked players in the world. Woods is among the 16 players announced Wednesday to participate in the Hero World Challenge, which
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1:20 PM ET COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Four days after an angst-filled win over a cellar-dwelling Arkansas team, Jimbo Fisher took his customary Wednesday night seat inside a local barbecue joint. The place — Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q — was packed, as scores of fans munched on brisket, ribs and cream corn while attentively
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1:19 PM ET Nine-time Grammy Award winner Rihanna says she turned down an offer to perform at the Super Bowl in 2019 to show solidarity with Colin Kaepernick. Rihanna told Vogue in a story published Wednesday that she would have been an “enabler” if she had performed at Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta. “I couldn’t
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1:13 PM ET The 76ers said two fans were removed from Tuesday’s preseason game for “their continuing disruption of the fan experience,” with the fans saying they were kicked out for showing support for Hong Kong. The team and the Wells Fargo Center both released statements Wednesday saying they received multiple complaints about the two
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12:42 PM ET The firing of Dave Dombrowski as Boston’s head of baseball operations has created an opening that will likely be filled by an experienced executive from another organization. But it is also seemingly spurring a wave of contract extensions for officials who might otherwise be interesting to the Red Sox. Last month, Arizona’s
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12:43 PM ET Miami will start N’Kosi Perry at quarterback for the injured Jarren Williams in Friday’s home game against No. 20 Virginia. Coach Manny Diaz on Wednesday told local reporters that Perry would get the start. Williams suffered an apparent shoulder injury in last week’s loss to Virginia Tech, throwing three interceptions in the
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12:15 PM ET American teenager Coco Gauff is set to break the world’s top 100 for the first time after reaching her maiden WTA tour quarterfinal at the Linz Open in Austria on Wednesday. Gauff, 15, progressed to the quarterfinals after her opponent, Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine, retired when trailing 6-4, 4-6, 0-2, becoming the
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