3:00 AM ET Tea England 285 and 259 for 6 (Root 98*, Foakes 194*) lead Sri Lanka 336 (Silva 85, Karunaratne 63, de Silva 59) by 213 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Joe Root’s century took England’s lead above 200 on the third day in Pallekele. Root has spoken often of his desire for his
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3:15 AM ET Former Adelaide airport worker Max McCardle admits there will be plenty of nerves when he tees off on Saturday sharing the Australian Open lead. However, a “flukey” chip-in birdie on his last hole of the second round at The Lakes has McCardle feeling the golf gods are firmly on his side. Having
3:22 AM GMT The Melbourne Rebels believe a season out of Super Rugby has been a good thing for their star recruit Quade Cooper. Unwanted at the Reds for the past 12 months, Cooper will start training in Melbourne on Monday in an attempt to re-ignite his Wallabies career ahead of next year’s Rugby World
2:44 AM ET Associated Press NAGOYA, Japan — Coming off a strong showing against a team of Major League Baseball All-Stars, Japan manager Atsunori Inaba has every reason to be confident about his team’s chances of winning a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Japan won the six-game exhibition series 5-1 against an MLB
1:08 AM ET Ahead of this week’s rivalry game against USC, a well-known UCLA statue was vandalized with red and yellow paint, according to UCLA police. Sometime this week, vandals broke into a wooden box intended to protect the Bruin Bear, a focal point on campus, and spray-painted USC colors on the body and foundation
1:08 AM ET HOUSTON — Golden State Warriors superstar Kevin Durant made it clear after Thursday night’s 107-86 blowout loss to the Houston Rockets that he does not want to address the incident he had earlier this week with Draymond Green again. “Don’t ask me about that again,” Durant said tersely after being asked where
12:26 AM GMT Wallabies coach Michael Cheika has backed 18-year-old rookie Jordan Petaia to successfully make the transition to Test rugby. The Queensland Reds flyer has been named on the wing for Saturday’s (0100 Sunday AEDT) clash with Italy in Padua – one of six changes to the side that lost 9-6 in Cardiff to
11:52 PM ET SEATTLE — Another game in Seattle, another potentially season-wrecking loss. There won’t be any catchy name for this one like the 2012 Fail Mary or the 2014 NFC Championship Game collapse. But had the Green Bay Packers won, it might have become known as “The Robert Tonyan Game.” Or “The Kyler Fackrell
11:43 PM ET HOUSTON — All-American defensive tackle Ed Oliver got into a heated discussion with Houston coach Major Applewhite just before halftime of the Cougars’ 48-17 win over Tulane on Thursday night. Applewhite approached Oliver, who has missed four consecutive games because of an injured knee, on the Houston sideline before halftime and removed
10:20 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — Vikas Krishan, a two-time Olympian and the most decorated amateur boxer in Indian history, signed a multiyear promotional agreement on Thursday to turn pro with Top Rank. Krishan — “The Indian Tank” — is on hand for Friday night’s Maurice Hooker-Alex Saucedo junior welterweight world title fight that headlines