8:20 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Dubai In the aftermath of Australia’s infamy at Newlands, one of the most common questions was this: how come “looking after” the ball for the pace bowlers was a task assigned not only to a batsman, but to the most junior member of the team in Cameron Bancroft? While
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Singapore’s record at the AFF Suzuki Cup is black and white. In 10 out of the 11 editions of Southeast Asia’s biennial tournament, the Lions have either won (four times) or fallen at the first hurdle (six). As we head into the 2018 edition, it is safe to say that six becoming seven is much
8:00 AM ET Kenyan Drake and Larry Fitzgerald might have been the two most frustrating fantasy players in September. Not just because they underachieved so much — but because they came with enough potential that you probably kept trotting them out there in your starting lineup every week, hoping for a breakthrough that never came.
9:44 AM ET Associated Press BEIJING — Anastasija Sevastova beat US Open champion Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to reach the China Open final. The 20th-ranked Latvian will face Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark in the final. Wozniacki defeated China’s Wang Qiang 6-1, 6-3 in the other semifinal. Osaka, 20, required a medical break in
8:32 AM ET SUZUKA, Japan — McLaren says it simply made the wrong call with its tyre selection at the Japanese Grand Prix after its allocation left its drivers with no real practice time on the super-soft tyres ahead of qualifying. McLaren opted for four sets of mediums, five sets of softs and four sets
7:38 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Lin Yuxin of China beat the weather and broke the course record with an 8-under 62 to take a one-shot lead Saturday in the Asia-Pacific Amateur. Lin is trying to join Japanese great Hideki Matsuyama as the only back-to-back winners of the Asia-Pacific Amateur in its 10-year history.
Son Heung-min cannot thank Tottenham enough for allowing him to play in the 2018 Asian Games. Son Heung-min and his South Korea teammates are now exempt from mandatory military service following their 2018 Asian Games triumph. Tottenham forward Son Heung-Min says he was delighted to help South Korea beat Japan 2-1 to win the Asian
3:29 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Late into Friday night, in the aftermath of a unique sort of masterpiece in Game 2 of this National League Division Series, Clayton Kershaw was asked, with his children on both knees, if his most recent triumph provided him with an extra dose of satisfaction, given the circumstances leading
2:44 AM ET LOS ANGELES — This is baseball, right? It’s not an early September non-conference football game featuring Alabama and Nowhere Tech. It’s the big leagues and one thing we know about this sport is that from the perspective of a single game or two, there is no such thing as an upset. It
shares Travis Head plays off the back foot © Getty Images Australia’s captain Tim Paine will go into his first Test since the fateful South Africa tour with three debutants, Aaron Finch, Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne, in place of the banned trio of Steven Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft, all suspended by