12:34 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Canada will not have Milos Raonic for the inaugural Davis Cup Finals next week in Madrid because of a back injury. He missed the U.S. Open because of a back injury and has played just three official matches this fall. Raonic said Monday it is “very hard and
12:00 PM ET CINCINNATI — In a season in which he already leads the NFL in oohs and aahs, Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson delivered a highlight for the ages in Sunday’s 49-13 rout of the winless Cincinnati Bengals. Jackson’s 47-yard touchdown run was part Michael Vick, part Barry Sanders. And it was all epic.
5:18 PM GMT Sir Alastair Cook has backed Chris Silverwood to bring the same clarity to England’s Test cricket that he offered to Essex during his agenda-setting spell as head coach, and believes that the team’s renewed focus on the longer form of the game will help bring out the best in his own successor
12:12 PM ET Even before a startling news conference in the wake of a blowout loss to Cleveland, New York Knicks president Steve Mills had started to lay the internal groundwork for the eventual dismissal of coach David Fizdale, league sources told ESPN. Mills is selling owner James Dolan on a roster constructed to be
11:49 AM ET Associated Press WEST POINT, N.Y. — Army assistant football coach Mike Viti is the winner of the Armed Forces Merit Award. The award began in 2012 to honor an individual or group in football. Viti was selected on Veterans Day by a seven-person committee made up of Football Writers Association of America
11:45 AM ET Former Michigan State star and Detroit Lions wide receiver Charles Rogers has died at age 38. Rogers’ former high school coaches told mlive.com that Rogers died from liver failure and that he also recently was diagnosed with cancer. “I called his mom at the hospital over the weekend and got a chance
10:24 AM ET CHICAGO — The National Football League is looking into how the Detroit Lions handled the reporting of quarterback Matthew Stafford‘s back injury in the week leading up to Sunday’s loss to Chicago, including the designation of Stafford being questionable and then ruled out, a source said. “We’ll look into it and gather
Nov 4, 2019 Less than 24 hours before Novak Djokovic strolled onto the floor of London’s 02 Arena on Sunday morning to resume his quest to regain the top ranking at the ATP Finals, an Italian youngster established himself as a player who might soon follow in the Serbian star’s outsized footprints. Jannik Sinner, a
2:33 PM GMT Andrew Fidel Fernando Sri Lanka has become the first South Asian nation to criminalise several offences related to match-fixing, after its parliament passed all three readings of a bill entitled “Prevention of Offences Related to Sports” on Monday. Offences related to corruption in sports will carry a prison term of up to
6:45 AM ET You can say watching Lamar Jackson is like looking into the past, if you want to say he reminds you of Michael Vick. And you can say watching Lamar Jackson is like looking into the future, if you want to believe the football world will someday be inhabited by jet-powered, shape-shifting human