12:35 PM ET East Carolina fired coach Scottie Montgomery on Thursday after three seasons. Defensive coordinator David Blackwell will coach the Pirates (3-8) in their season finale on Saturday at NC State. “As much as we would have liked the outcome to be different, the progress of a program is ultimately measured by its competitiveness,
12:06 PM ET “Cancer may not be life-ending, but it is usually life-changing.” That’s a quote from my father, Dr. Leonard L. Berry. I may be on basic cable occasionally, but I assure you my father is the accomplished one in my family. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on customer service. He’s
Kylian Mbappe celebrates a goal with France’s teammate Antoine Griezmann. A couple in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, have named their new-born child Griezmann Mbappe but a civil code threatens their tribute to two of France’s World Cup winners — Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe — being allowed to stick. Born in November, as reported first by regional
12:37 PM ET Nine-year-old Riley Morrison needed shoes for the new hoops season, but after deciding she liked Under Armour’s Stephen Curry model, she couldn’t find them. So she took her problem straight to the top, writing the Golden State Warriors star a letter. Saying she’s a big fan, Morrison wrote that she and her
11:54 AM ET The Carolina Hurricanes will place goaltender Scott Darling on waivers Thursday, according to general manager Don Waddell. Darling was 2-4-1 with a 3.14 goals-against average and an .892 save percentage this season. In his last game with Carolina, he allowed four goals on 19 shots in Saturday’s loss to the New York
11:51 AM ET NASSAU, Bahamas — The fallout from the U.S. Ryder Cup defeat in France continues. In his first comments on the lingering situation that came in the aftermath of the United States’ 17½-10½ defeat against Europe at Le Golf National on Sept. 30 in which he criticized American teammate Jordan Spieth, Patrick Reed
11:41 AM ET Barny Read in Sharjah Nicholas Pooran, the West Indies and Northern Warriors batsman, believes the T10 League can further increase scores in both T20s and 50-over cricket, a potential knock-on effect of cricket’s shortest format. Pooran has been a revelation this season in Sharjah and following his 43* from 18 balls on
1:00 PM ET Every great sporting event — actually, every great event period — has its breakthrough, watershed moment. That instantaneous dividing line between the way they used to do stuff and the way we do it now. Like Oct. 22, 1879, when Thomas Edison brought the first incandescent light bulb to life. Or Sept.
Tiger Woods made his first hole-in-one in 20 years last week while playing with Fred Couples in La Quinta, Calif. Woods said it was his first ace since the 1998 International, a former PGA Tour event played in Colorado. That was the last of his three aces on the PGA Tour, as he made one
Where does talent come from? Are clubs looking in the right places to find it? We took a stab at this huge topic by limiting our search to the countries of Europe’s big five — Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga and Ligue 1 — and using a software tool that pulled in data.