12:21 AM BST Australian rugby is no stranger to controversy, yet it has never seen anything quite like this. Just when the game in Australia looked like it might be starting to recover, with improved Super Rugby results, promising television ratings and hopes that the national team, the Wallabies, could be something more than Rugby
Carli Lloyd will be back for her fourth FIFA Women’s World Cup after United States coach Jill Ellis announced her 23-person roster for the 2019 edition this summer in France. Ellis attempted to bridge the gap between experience and change with almost half of the players named to the U.S. roster set to participate in
4:45 AM ET Reuters and ESPN Staff Two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso will be replaced by New Zealander Brendon Hartley in the Toyota World Endurance Championship (WEC) team after the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June, the Japanese manufacturer announced on Wednesday. 1 Related Toyota said Alonso “will explore new motorsport adventures
4:51 AM BST Wallabies centre Samu Kerevi has moved to ease concern about Pacific Island player unrest in Australian rugby and says he still feels comfortable to express his religious faith publicly. The Queensland captain was keen to restore calm on Thursday after a furore sparked when his Reds and Wallabies teammate Taniela Tupou leapt
2:38 AM ET DENVER — Damian Lillard sat on a stool in a ballroom in sweatpants and sliders at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown on Tuesday with an iPad on his lap, about to head to a film session to comb through Game 1. The Portland Trail Blazers felt like they had played well,
2:32 AM ET DENVER — Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray reaggravated a right thigh injury that kept him out of the final 53 seconds of Game 2 and will undergo treatment over the next 48 hours. Murray missed six of his eight 3-point attempts and finished with 15 points and seven assists, then had to
10:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” Mike Trout is squarely in the passing-Hall-of-Famers-in-career-WAR-every-few-days period of his career. He’s 27. If I tell you that 27-year-old Mike Trout has more career WAR than, say, Goose Goslin, you could hear
7:00 AM ET Despite being even more aggressive at the plate than he was last season, Tim Anderson has raised his average more than 120 points. Rick Osentoski/USA TODAY Sports Kole Calhoun did not have a good 2018 season. He hit .208 with 19 home runs, and his wOBA of .294 ranked 178th out of 194
1:14 AM ET Ankur Dhawan in Mumbai Sunrisers Hyderabad must have breathed a sigh of relief when the exits of some of their overseas stars coincided with Manish Pandey finding form. He returned to the side against Chennai Super Kings, and has since strung together scores of 83*, 61 and 36. This is seemingly the
9:20 AM ET Tony Ferguson recently changed management groups, leaving Paradigm Sports Management — a team that represents former UFC champion and fellow lightweight Conor McGregor — for Ballengee Group. Some have questioned whether being part of the same organization might have hurt the chances of this matchup being made in the past. Now that