Month: August 2018

8:27 PM BST Veteran Namibia fullback Chrysander Botha and Louis van der Westhuizen each scored two tries as the Welwitschias sealed a sixth successive qualification for the Rugby World Cup with a 53-28 victory over Kenya at the Hage Geingob Rugby Stadium on Saturday. Fly-half Cliven Loubser also scored a try in his match haul
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8:31 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Lizette Salas shot an 8-under 64 on Saturday to take a 2-shot lead over Sung Hyun Park and Amy Yang after the third round of the Indy Women in Tech Championship. The 29-year-old former Southern California player hasn’t won on the LPGA Tour since 2014. She took the
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7:57 PM ET Alex Ovechkin has a reason to keep celebrating, as the Washington Capitals captain became a father for the first time Saturday. Ovechkin’s wife, Nastya Ovechkina, gave birth to the couple’s first child, a son named Sergei Aleksandrovich Ovechkin. The elder Ovechkin shared a glimpse of young Sergei on Instagram, captioning it in
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6:39 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Carl Frampton left his home fans singing in the rain as he halted Luke Jackson in nine rounds at a
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6:33 PM ET West Virginia postponed its fan appreciation day, originally scheduled for Sunday, after five of its players contracted hand, foot and mouth disease. Gearing you up for kickoff with the biggest conference games, strongest position groups, team with the most to prove and more around the Big 12. Hand, foot and mouth is
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8:53 PM ET Georgia freshman running back Zamir White tore the ACL in his left knee while covering a punt in a scrimmage at Sanford Stadium on Saturday, a source told ESPN. Georgia’s coaches fear he will miss the 2018 season, sources said. The Athens Banner-Herald was first to report White’s ACL tear. Bulldogs coach
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7:13 PM ET Alabama outside linebacker Christopher Allen is “probably” out for the season after he suffered a knee injury that will require surgery, coach Nick Saban said following Saturday’s scrimmage. It is the second major injury to the position after Terrell Lewis, a projected starter, tore his ACL in July. “It’s unfortunate we’ve got
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5:01 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Hall of Famer Jim Thome’s No. 25 has been retired by the Cleveland Indians. Cleveland’s Trevor Bauer, who is 12-6 with a 2.22 ERA and is among the AL leaders in ERA, innings pitched and strikeouts, will miss 4-6 weeks because of a fracture in his leg. The
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