3:57 AM BST Wales fullback Liam Williams has been ruled out of Sunday’s World Cup semi-final against South Africa after sustaining an ankle injury. Williams, who has won 62 caps and started all of Wales’s World Cup games except one, is not expected to recover in time for their next match — either the final
8:49 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Afghanistan have announced a raft of changes to both their ODI side, which flattered to deceive at the 2019 World Cup in England and Wales, and the T20I team, which shared the honours after a washed-out tri-series final in Bangladesh in September. For the upcoming matches against West Indies in
3:28 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — The Golden State Warriors officially moved into their dream home Thursday night and then proceeded to live out a nightmare in an embarrassing 141-122 loss to the LA Clippers in the first ever regular-season game at Chase Center. After watching his team get run up and down the floor
3:46 AM ET Roger Federer progressed to the Swiss Indoor semfinals in his hometown of Basel after compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka was unfit to play their scheduled quarterfinal clash on Thursday. Wawrinka, who finished runner-up to Andy Murray last week at the European Open as the Scot won his first singles title since returning from hip
3:14 AM ET South African Louis de Jager finished the first round of the Portugal Masters with a two-stroke lead over Englishman Oliver Fisher on Thursday. De Jager earned his early lead with a bogey-free 63, while Fisher — who carded the first sub-60 round in European Tour history at last year’s edition of the
1:24 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS — With two minutes left in the game, and the game well in hand, the Minnesota crowd turned its appreciation to someone they know well: running back Adrian Peterson. And it caused the longtime running back, one of the hardest runners in the NFL, to choke up. The Washington Redskins running
12:24 AM ET Junior middleweight contender Erickson Lubin was faced not only with a change of opponent on two weeks’ notice but a radical change in the boxing style of his foe. He had spent most of camp in South Florida with trainer Kevin Cunningham preparing to fight a slick boxer in fellow former world
11:32 PM ET When Shakur Stevenson and Joet Gonzalez square off for a vacant featherweight world title the winner will answer the question of whether it was better to be on the fast track to the title fight or the slower, steadier climb into contention. The bitter rivals will meet in the main event of
11:31 PM ET All 22 fighters scheduled to compete at UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Singapore have successfully made weight, including welterweight headliners Ben Askren and Demian Maia. Askren (19-1) weighed in at 170.5 pounds, while Maia (27-9) hit the welterweight limit of 171 pounds. That bout will headline the event, which will take
11:00 PM ET Tampa Bay Rays executive Chaim Bloom is the favorite to become the next general manager of the Boston Red Sox, a source tells ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Bloom, 36, is the Rays’ senior vice president of baseball operations. He has spent 15 years with the team in capacities including minor league operations, player