6:33 PM BST KweséESPN Staff The high-scoring trend of the 2018 Currie Cup continued in Bloemfontein on Friday evening when the Pumas beat the bottom of the log Free State Cheetahs 42-14. It was the Cheetahs’ last match of the season as they finished their campaign winless and rooted to the bottom of the Currie
6:12 PM ET Tyron Woodley is going under the knife. Conor McGregor went on the verbal assault at a UFC 229 news conference, but without fans in attendance, something was clearly missing as the UFC began the push to sell its biggest fight of the year. Former strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk will move up in
5:58 PM ET ESPN staff Gilles Simon beat his fellow Frenchman Richard Gasquet at the ninth attempt with a 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 victory at the Moselle Open on Friday. Gasquet had won all eight of their encounters before this meeting, and with Simon arriving in Metz out of form it was expected to be win
Sep 21, 2018 Joel Embiid, no stranger to overcoming the rigors of the NBA, says Phoenix Suns rookie Deandre Ayton is about to be introduced to a process all his own. Embiid, in an interview Friday on ESPN’s The Jump at Philadelphia 76ers media day, said the 2018 No. 1 draft pick will have his
3:00 AM ET Toss Afghanistan chose to bat v Pakistan Mohammad Shahzad makes room to slap through the off side AFP For the third time in as many games, Afghanistan elected to bat. Fresh off a morale-boosting thrashing of Bangladesh on Thursday, Afghanistan came into this match as group winners, looking to maintain their perfect start
2:17 PM ET The initial trade market for Jimmy Butler is confused and cool, league sources say, as teams contemplate their appetite for risk and wonder whether the Timberwolves can coalesce around trade talks — or whether Tom Thibodeau’s reported desire to keep Butler at all costs wins the day. The three teams on Butler’s
Sep 21, 2018 DALLAS — Coach Rick Carlisle said Dirk Nowitzki, the longtime face of the Dallas Mavericks franchise, is “likely to come off the bench” in his 21st and potentially final season. Nowitzki, who ranks sixth in NBA history with 31,187 points, has been open to the idea for the past few years. He
ESPN FC’s Alexis Nunes and Steve Nicol square off in predicting every fixture in the sixth week of Premier League action. The Premier League season is five games old so it’s far too early to reach sensible, informed conclusions. Therefore, here are 10 knee-jerk, hastily jumped to conclusions: 10. Manchester City’s biggest hurdle is complacency
2:51 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers fired manager Jeff Banister on Friday, more than a week before the end of what will be the team’s first consecutive losing seasons in 10 years. Bench coach Don Wakamatsu will serve as interim manager for the remainder of the season, starting with Friday
2:08 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN After being suspended for the rest of the NHL preseason, Max Domi of the Montreal Canadiens said that he regretted giving Florida Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad a broken nose with a sucker punch. If “scores will get settled at a later date” happens as Florida’s Aaron Ekblad says, the next