8:00 AM GMT Nelson Mandela Bay Giants 187 for 5 (Smuts 73, Marais 40*) beat Cape Town Blitz 186 for 9 (de Kock 39, Livingstone 39) by five wickets The Nelson Mandela Bay Giants leapfrogged the Cape Town Blitz to the top of the Mzansi Super League (MSL) table with a successful chase of 187
3:48 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close NBA Senior NBA Insider Joined ESPN in 2017 Host of The Woj Pod Ohm Youngmisuk Close ESPN Staff Writer Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com
9:00 AM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Nick Saban hears over the loudspeakers that his show is back from commercial break and going on without him, but he doesn’t stop. Alabama’s head football coach keeps working the room inside Baumhower’s Victory Grill, shaking hands and posing for pictures. A mountain of a man dressed in a
9:00 AM ET Time is running out for San Diego Padres chairman Ron Fowler and the folks who work for him, and we know this because Fowler says so. We can speculate about 2020 being a win-now season for the Mets and Phillies, but Fowler himself has already declared next season and the year that
1:41 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Houston Astros owner Jim Crane has declined to comment on Major League Baseball’s investigation into allegations of sign stealing. While walking through the lobby of the hotel where owners were meeting Wednesday, Crane stopped briefly when approached by reporters and said he’d talk about baseball. When someone
1:07 PM ET ESPN News Services CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jimmie Johnson sat down next to Jeff Gordon at a 2001 driver meeting and asked the champion if he had time to offer any career advice. Gordon was so impressed with the fellow California native that he encouraged Rick Hendrick to start a team built specifically
1:07 PM ET Jimmie Johnson has announced that 2020 will be his final season as a full-time driver in NASCAR’s Cup Series. Johnson made the announcement Wednesday in a video posted to his Twitter account, saying he is “so thankful for 18 incredible years of racing in NASCAR.” #Chasing8 one final time pic.twitter.com/ZoldabKy9M — Jimmie
11:25 AM ET Associated Press MADRID — Novak Djokovic cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 win over 73rd-ranked Yoshihito Nishioka, giving Serbia a 2-0 victory over Japan in Group A of the new Davis Cup Finals. It was the 13th straight Davis Cup singles victory for Djokovic, who broke Nishioka’s serve three times in the first
11:10 AM ET Brooks Koepka will miss next month’s Presidents Cup due to a knee issue that he originally addressed with stem cell treatment. Tiger Woods has already chosen Rickie Fowler to replace Koepka on his 12-man team that will play an International squad at Royal Melbourne in Australia beginning Dec. 12. “Today, I am
11:02 AM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Mike Whan pulled the LPGA Tour out of a deep hole when he took over as a commissioner nine years ago, and he’s not finished yet. Whan has signed what the LPGA described only as a long-term contract extension that keeps him in charge as women’s golf