6:53 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell took his National League Championship Series chess match with Dodgers counterpart Dave Roberts to a new level in the early stages of Wednesday’s Game 5. Counsell pulled starter Wade Miley after he walked Dodgers leadoff man Cody Bellinger on five pitches. Miley is a
5:59 PM ET One brother pushing for regular selection in the ODI side, another making himself comfortable in the Test outfit – the Currans are realising boyhood dreams, but perhaps even they may not have imagined that they could both be in the same international squad together. The pair have not yet played a game
6:10 PM ET Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see Naomi Osaka experience the unadulterated joy she was denied at the US Open last month? It’s a moment she deserved, one that every young player dreams about. But for Osaka, the controversial ending during her championship run turned a celebration into conflicting emotions and tears. One
8:00 AM ET The 2018-19 NHL season is just underway, and regardless of how your favorite team came out of the gates, there is plenty to be excited about going forward. Here is my ranking of Nos. 51-100 of the top NHL prospects right now, and be sure to check out the top 50 as
4:15 PM ET Major League Baseball has fined Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Manny Machado an undisclosed amount for the way he ran into the Milwaukee Brewers‘ Jesus Aguilar in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series last night, sources confirmed to ESPN. “He’s a player that has a history of those types of incidents,”
3:45 PM ET While unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez is set to get back to business by fighting secondary super middleweight world titlist Rocky Fielding on Dec. 15 armed with a brand new record-breaking contract with sports streaming service DAZN, his rival and former champion, Gennady Golovkin, is taking his time figuring out his
5:39 PM BST Chris Robshaw has been ruled out of England’s upcoming autumn internationals with a knee injury, sources have told ESPN. Robshaw, 32, was absent for Harlequins’ European Challenge Cup win over Agen on Saturday, but had featured in all six of his side’s Premiership fixtures this season. The back-row joins a growing list
4:12 PM BST England’s injury crisis showed no signs of slowing down with Mako Vunipola ruled out of the autumn internationals. Vunipola, who limped off during Saracens’ Champions Cup clash with Glasgow last weekend, joins brother Billy on the sidelines with a calf injury and is expected to be sidelined for six weeks. Saracens have
Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni on Carmelo Anthony coming off the bench for the first time in his career: “I know it’s not the ideal situation for him, because he’s a Hall of Famer and all that. I know it’s a big adjustment, but you know what? He’s true to his word. He said he’d do
4:03 PM ET Major League Baseball said it found no violations by the Houston Astros with regard to alleged sign-stealing during the postseason. Major League Baseball is looking into an incident in which an Astros employee appearing to shoot video was removed from the photographer’s pit adjacent to Boston’s dugout in Game 1 of the