7:57 PM IST Deivarayan Muthu Mumbai Indians fast bowler Lasith Malinga, the highest wicket-taker in the IPL, has pulled out of the 2020 season in the UAE owing to personal reasons. Australia fast bowler James Pattinson, who is yet to play an IPL game, has been named as his replacement. It is understood Malinga’s father
Month: September 2020
9:28 AM BST ESPN staff A four-game Bledisloe Cup series is firming as the likely scenario for Test rugby in New Zealand and Australia this year with the chances of the Rugby Championship proceeding shortening by the day, according to Newshub. While SANZAAR remains bullish about the prospects of the tournament going ahead from Nov.
5:43 PM ET If there was one fight from 2019 that stood out because of the electricity of its crowd, it was the Nov. 2 “BMF” battle in Madison Square Garden, where President Trump, The Rock and a packed house watched Jorge Masvidal bloody and stop Nate Diaz after three rounds. The UFC is negotiating
7:00 AM ET I brought this up a couple of weeks ago while pinch-hitting for Buster Olney on the Baseball Tonight podcast: Not factoring in salaries, who would you rather have for the next 10 seasons, Mike Trout or Fernando Tatis Jr.? That was just three weeks into the season, but Tatis hasn’t really slowed
6:49 AM ET If you’ve watched any of the 2020 US Open so far, you already know this year’s event is like none other before it. With strict rules and protocols, and the absence of fans due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the scene at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is almost hard
10:19 PM ET NBA Insiders The Toronto Raptors are once again in a 2-0 hole in the NBA playoffs. Last year, they fell two games behind the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference finals before Kawhi Leonard led them all the way to an NBA title. On Tuesday, they lost 102-99 to the Boston Celtics
8:01 AM ET Ferrari is in the midst of its worst Formula One season in recent memory. A couple of seasons removed from an F1 championship it let slip through its fingers in 2018, Ferrari now looks like an ordinary midfield team. The tweaked post-coronavirus F1 rules for the next few years also limit the
5:11 PM ET Marvin Wilson needed to find his position coach. Urgently. Odell Haggins sat in a defensive line meeting room, preparing for Florida State’s bowl game last December, when Wilson walked in. “I need to see you after this meeting, coach,” Wilson said. Haggins finished up and left the meeting early to find Wilson,
6:00 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Patrick Queen stepped onto the most sacred area of the Baltimore Ravens team and didn’t reflect upon the franchise’s history at that position. He instantly went into fast-forward mode. Lining up in the middle of the Ravens’ defense, Queen revealed the impact he can make during the first
10:44 AM ET The problem with analyzing the future of Lionel Messi is that, after 20 years, his relationship with Barcelona lies somewhere between the professional and the romantic. You can use reason and logic on the first part to come up with plausible scenarios. You can’t account for the second, partly because it’s intensely