8:34 PM ET TORONTO — For a brief moment, Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse considered waving the white flag before the fourth quarter Sunday afternoon, as his injury-depleted squad was down 23 points to the Dallas Mavericks in the first game of a back-to-back. Then Nurse’s mind flashed to the Raptors’ Dec. 8 loss in
4:41 PM ET Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara will miss Monday’s game against the Washington Capitals to have more surgery on the jaw he broke in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final before returning for Game 5. The team announced that he developed an infection and will have the plates and screws in the
3:59 PM ET Washington offensive coordinator Bush Hamdan will not continue with the program under new coach Jimmy Lake, the school announced Sunday. Tight ends coach Jordan Paopao also will not be retained. “I’ve really enjoyed working alongside Bush and Jordan and appreciate their contributions to Husky football,” Lake said in a statement. “These decisions
Dec 21, 2019 Toss India elected to bowl v West Indies After having beaten the conditions in the must-win second ODI to keep the series alive, India won the toss in the decider in Cuttack, in whose last ODI India had to fight hard to defend 381. Virat Kohli didn’t mind not having to bowl
5:41 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff India finished 2019 on a high, sealing a 2-1 victory over West Indies in front of a packed crowd playing a game that see-sawed this way and that. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma were front and centre in a chase of 316, much as they have been all year in
8:52 PM ET Jacksonville Jaguars team owner Shad Khan has confided internally that he’d prefer to see the return of head coach Doug Marrone and general manager Dave Caldwell for the 2020 season, league sources told ESPN. The status of both Marrone and Caldwell in Jacksonville has been a topic of speculation, especially after the
10:29 AM ET Travis Shaw and the Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to a one-year, $4 million contract, a source confirmed to ESPN. The source said the deal includes $675,000 in performance bonuses. The deal ends up creating a swap of infielders between the Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers, who signed Justin Smoak to a
Clippers ‘still learning each other’ despite hanging 150 on Wizards For the second time this season, the Clippers scored 150 points at home, this time in a rout of the Wizards. But Kawhi Leonard remained humble, saying, “It’s going to take time, just learning each other, playing in these games,” referring to Paul George.
11:43 AM ET Ekaterina Alexandrova needed less than an hour to defeat Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-1, 6-3 Sunday, winning the Limoges Challenger title for the third time in the process. Defending champion Alexandrova broke serve twice in the opening four games to race ahead, and while Sasnovich saved a set point at 5-1, the world No.
10:02 AM GMT Jofra Archer and Joe Root are the two English players that South Africa will be targeting this summer as they seek to get their first World Test Championship points on the board. While South Africa are primarily concerned with getting their own confidence back after a humbling tour to India where the