Month: July 2018

10:17 PM ET Mitchell Lamb WEDNESDAY’S BEST Warwick Farm Race 4 No.1 Island Missile (Blake Shinn) – $2.60 Island Missile has always been a good style of galloper, who’s been within a nose of being a stakes winner already. He appears ready to get back into the winner’s stall after two runs this preparation and
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9:28 PM ET LeBron James did more than watch the Los Angeles Lakers summer league team on Sunday in Las Vegas. Over the weekend he also had his first meeting with Lakers head coach Luke Walton. LeBron James, who was in Las Vegas over the weekend to watch the Lakers play a summer league game,
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8:11 PM ET Jack Newton has challenged Australia’s golf aces to honour the late and great Peter Thomson with a drought-breaking Open Championship triumph. The season’s third major gets under way at Carnoustie on Thursday, almost one month after Thomson died aged 89. As a show of respect, R&A officials have marked a tribute to
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5:14 PM ET UFC middleweight champion Robert Whittaker told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani on Monday that he won’t be able to defend his belt until at least 2019. Whittaker said his ideal return date is next February due to injuries he suffered in his most recent fight, a split decision win against Yoel Romero in June.
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5:14 PM ET Longtime Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina said he’d “welcome the opportunity” if he had a chance to a be player-manager during his last contract year with St. Louis in 2020. “For any player, that would be a dream to be considered for such a role,” Molina told ESPN’s Marly Rivera. “It would be
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5:29 PM ET ATLANTA — LSU coach Ed Orgeron said Monday that he erred in hiring Matt Canada as offensive coordinator following the 2016 season, saying that current coordinator Steve Ensminger was the right choice all along. Canada spent only the 2017 season at LSU before mutually parting ways with the school. Orgeron promoted Ensminger,
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4:36 PM ET Detroit Lions defensive end Ziggy Ansah did not reach a deal by Monday’s 4 p.m. ET deadline to sign franchise players and will play under the franchise tag, the team announced. Ansah’s contract will expire after this season, when he will be scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent. Ansah has recorded
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3:58 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN Free-agent forward Dante Cunningham has agreed to a one-year contract with the San Antonio Spurs, league sources told ESPN. Cunningham, 31, gives the Spurs depth at small forward in the aftermath of the franchise’s declining to match forward Kyle Anderson‘s four-year, $37 million offer sheet with the Memphis Grizzlies. Cunningham
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3:10 PM ET Amanda Nunes says a right foot injury is what is delaying the biggest fight in women’s MMA. The UFC bantamweight champion appeared on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show on Monday and spoke of a pending showdown with featherweight champ Cris “Cyborg” Justino, saying, “This is definitely the fight that makes sense — for
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