Tai Tuivasa and coach Shaun Sullivan go back a long way. Growing up playing rugby league in western Sydney — Sullivan played with one of Tuivasa’s older brothers — their sporting endeavors have long been intertwined. Now, more than a decade on from when a 15-year-old Tuivasa was the second heaviest player at Penrith Panthers
Month: September 2022
5:00 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent As Erik ten Hag sat down for his news conference at Manchester United‘s Carrington training ground on Wednesday afternoon, he told reporters he wasn’t in a position to talk much about prospective new €95 million signing Antony until the paperwork was completed. His smile, though, said everything. By that point,
Ben Stokes has been recalled to England’s 15-man squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia, but will sit out the preceding seven-match tour of Pakistan, for which his fellow World Cup selections Chris Woakes and Mark Wood are among the notable returnees in an enlarged 19-player squad. The Pakistan series – England’s first visit
2:48 AM ET Cameron Norrie and Dan Evans secured wins at the US Open on Thursday, meaning that four British men will compete in the round of 32 in New York for the first time. British No. 1 Norrie was barely troubled in a convincing 6-4, 6-4, 7-6(4) win over unseeded Portuguese player Joao Sousa.
1:30 AM ET PITTSBURGH — Finally, blessedly, the Backyard Brawl returned to college football on Thursday night. Fans saw a game to tell their grandkids about, but were also reminded of the emotion, hatred and yes — profanity-laced chants — that go hand-in-hand with this lost rivalry. Eleven years separated the most recent matchup between
10:04 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — Rookie Spencer Strider had 16 strikeouts to set a Braves record for a nine-inning game and allowed just two hits in eight innings to lead Atlanta to a 3-0 win over the Colorado Rockies on Thursday night. Strider fanned his last two batters with two runners on
4:10 PM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles acknowledged Thursday that it will require time for the team to repair its relationship with linebacker Roquan Smith after contract talks fell through last month. Poles expressed optimism that a path of reconciliation could lead the two parties to eventually agree on
6:05 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For as surprised as the San Francisco 49ers were that they were able to retain quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo on a significantly reduced contract, that paled in comparison to how Garoppolo himself thought his dramatic offseason would end. On Thursday, Garoppolo spoke to Bay Area media for the first
9:41 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com NEW YORK — In their first match together in over four years, and 25 years after their debut as a pair at the tournament, Venus and Serena Williams were unable to rediscover their signature magic and lost to Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the first round
8:30 AM ET Jeff Thorne was ready to drive 13½ hours from Illinois to New Jersey in January to see a friend, until his son, Payton, took the wheel. Riding shotgun, Jeff, a successful Division III coach at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, was weighing two potential leaps to the Division I level: a
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