2:00 AM ET MILWAUKEE — For contending teams, September often can be about finding out who you can trust in big moments — and who you can’t. Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon might be able to use Tuesday’s ugly 11-1 blowout loss to the Milwaukee Brewers for the latter category as his circle of trust
Month: September 2018
Denmark’s futsal champions Jaegersborg have had six players called up by the national football team. Denmark’s futsal players who will represent their national football team this week only accepted a call-up in order to save their own sport, their coach has told ESPN FC. The Denmark squad that is set to face Slovakia in a
1:50 AM ET Anthony Mundine could be slugged with more than $1 million in fines if he fails to make weight for his mooted showdown with Jeff Horn. The fight, Horn’s first since losing his world title to Terence Crawford, is all but locked in for November 30 at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane and is
9:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Alastair Cook addressed a variety of issues, from mental strength to Kevin Pietersen to his future with Essex, in the wake of his announcement that he will retire from Test cricket at the end of the Oval Test What do you make of the reaction to your retirement news over
6:35 AM ET McLaren CEO Zak Brown insists he got the “guy we wanted” by signing 18-year-old Lando Norris over more experienced racing drivers who were also on the market for 2019. Norris will join Carlos Sainz at the team next year, replacing the current line-up of Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne. The two signings
6:03 AM ET McLaren’s new recruit Lando Norris doubts he will be in a position to win races over the next two years and has played down comparisons with four-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. The 18-year-old will join the team as Carlos Sainz’s teammate next year, becoming the first British rookie to drive for McLaren
5:03 AM ET NEW YORK — Rafael Nadal watched as his opponent hit an overhead beyond the baseline on match point, and then dropped his racket to his side. He walked quietly to the center of the court, then stepped over the net and embraced 25-year-old Dominic Thiem. It was the first still moment in
1:56 AM ET ESPN News Services A fan was hit in the face by a foul ball and taken to a hospital during Tuesday night’s Tigers–White Sox game in Chicago. A White Sox spokesperson said the middle-aged male fan was transported to Rush University Medical Center for treatment. The man was sitting in the first
1:48 AM ET NEW YORK — Before dissecting her 6-4, 6-3 quarterfinal win over No. 8 Karolina Pliskova on Tuesday night, let’s pause for a moment to breathe in what Serena Williams has accomplished in the past five days in Flushing Meadows. She handed her sister, Venus, the most lopsided loss of her season, survived
3:00 AM ET St Kitts & Nevis Patriots 169 for 8 (Allen 64*, Irfan 3-37) beat Barbados Tridents 168 for 5 (Pooran 44, Chase 38*, Shamsi 2-16) by two wickets Tabraiz Shamsi wheels away after taking a wicket Randy Brooks – CPL T20 / Getty A sparkling half-century in Fabian Allen‘s maiden CPL innings salvaged a