4:34 PM GMT Matt Roller Close Matt Roller is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets at @mroller98 Leading county players have been left frustrated after missing out in Sunday’s inaugural draft for the Hundred, amid concerns that their case for selection may have been weakened because they do not play for a county based
10:13 AM ET Former lightweight world titlist Anthony Crolla has an opponent for his farewell fight: Frank Urquiaga. Crolla plans to say goodbye to his fans with a final fight at his hometown Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, on Nov. 2 (DAZN) in the co-feature of the card headlined by undisputed women’s lightweight world champion
10:04 AM ET The Lake Show has been playing non-stop at U.S. sportsbooks, leaving bookmakers staring at sizable liabilities on the Los Angeles Lakers to win the NBA championship. As the season tips off, more money has been bet on the Lakers to win the title than has been bet on any other team at
9:50 AM ET The Houston Astros had baseball’s best record (107-55) and are looking for their second title in three years. The Washington Nationals rebounded from 12 games under .500 in late May and will try to win the first title for a Washington baseball team since 1924 when they were the Senators and played
Formula One is nearing the end of its current season. Four races remain, in Mexico, the U.S., Brazil and Abu Dhabi, and there is plenty of business to decide on and off the race track. Here’s a look at the most pressing issues likely to generate the most headlines between now and the end of
9:46 AM ET The XFL’s inaugural season will open Feb. 8 with a game between the D.C. Defenders and Seattle Dragons in Washington, D.C., according to a full schedule the league released Tuesday morning. The game will be televised on ABC. Each of the XFL’s eight teams have been divided into two divisions. They will
9:35 AM ET Florida coach Dan Mullen said he expects injured defensive starters Jonathan Greenard and Jabari Zuniga, along with wideout Kadarius Toney, to be available by the time the seventh-ranked Gators play the No. 10 Georgia Bulldogs on Nov. 2 in Jacksonville. “We expect those guys to be back,” Mullen told the radio show
8:22 AM BST World Rugby is set to talk with referee Jaco Peyper about a photograph which appeared on social media of him with a group of Wales rugby fans taken after he sent off France second-row Sébastien Vahaamahina in their Rugby World Cup quarterfinal. The photograph appeared on social media of referee Peyper with
7:42 AM BST TOKYO — England coach Eddie Jones said his team were spied on at training Tuesday ahead of their Rugby World Cup semifinal against New Zealand and also turned up the heat on the All Blacks saying all the pressure is on the current champions. Jones said an individual was spotted in one
7:30 AM ET Associated Press MOSCOW — A Russian hockey team has been fined after its coach threatened to set fire to a referee’s car. The Kontinental Hockey League fined Amur Khabarovsk 300,000 rubles ($4,700) after coach Alexander Gulyavtsev shouted “I’m going to set fire to your car in Perm,” a reference to the Russian