12:45 PM BST The Crusaders knew before the Super Rugby final that if they stopped the Lions’ attacking lineout drives, targeted flyhalf Elton Jantjies and put him under pressure and tackled everything that moved, they were in with a chance of winning. They did all three on Saturday while Richie Mo’unga drove them around the
Month: August 2018
12:23 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Serena Williams has pulled out of next week’s Rogers Cup hard-court tournament, citing personal reasons. The tournament announced Williams’ withdrawal on Saturday. The 23-time Grand Slam champion is coming off the most lopsided defeat of her career, a 6-1, 6-0 loss to Johanna Konta in San Jose, California,
12:12 PM BST The moments that mattered in the Crusaders’ Super Rugby final win over the Lions in Christchurch. 5th minute: Ruan Combrinck through with a clean break, but is caught about seven metres from the Crusaders’ tryline. The Lions take the wrong options at the breakdown and the Crusaders manage to get a turnover.
7:47 PM ET AKRON, Ohio — If Tiger Woods is going to win the final edition of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club, he will need a big Saturday. The bad news for Woods: His second-round 68 left him five shots back of co-leaders Ian Poulter, Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Thomas and in a
12:30 PM ET ESPN News Services LeBron James hasn’t responded to a shot about his intelligence from President Donald Trump, but his fellow NBA players took to Twitter to defend him. Trump took aim at James in a tweet on Friday night, days after an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon aired in which the Los
11:36 AM ET Andre Ward has signed a new multiyear deal to remain with ESPN as one of its boxing analysts, the network announced on Friday. Under the agreement, Ward, who unified super middleweight and lightweight world titles and became one of boxing’s pound-for-pound best fighters in the world during his 2004 to 2017 ring
11:13 AM ET The UFC’s big announcement on Friday, that Conor McGregor will face Khabib Nurmagomedov for the lightweight championship in just nine weeks in Las Vegas, was arguably the most welcome news this sport has received in years. Around this time last year, McGregor was in Los Angeles alongside Floyd Mayweather at a massive
4:33 AM ET Connor McDonagh Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has wished Niki Lauda a safe and speedy recovery following his lung surgery on Thursday. Lauda — who has been Mercedes’ non-executive chairman since 2012 — had an operation in Vienna earlier in the week. ”Although we should enjoy the start of our summer holidays this
6:33 AM ET Connor McDonagh Daniel Ricciardo says his switch from Red Bull to Renault for the 2019 Formula One season is one of the toughest decisions he’s made in his entire life. Ricciardo’s surprise switch to Renault shocked the F1 world when it was announced yesterday afternoon. It was widely expected that the Australian
shares Ishant Sharma has earned a demerit point and a fine of 15% of his match fee for his send-off to Dawid Malan in England’s second innings at Edgbaston. The Level 1 offence violated Article 2.1.7 of ICC’s code of conduct, which relates to “using language, actions or gestures which disparage or which could