12:28 AM ET NEW YORK — Boston Red Sox fans don’t have any fingernails left after a stomach-churning bottom of the ninth, but their team is moving on the American League Championship Series. The winningest team in Red Sox franchise history held on to beat the New York Yankees 4-3 to clinch the division series.
Month: October 2018
11:06 PM ET Junior bantamweight world titleholder Jerwin Ancajas has held his belt for more than two years — longer than any other titlist in the division — and made six successful defenses, but so far the unification fight he wants has eluded him. But there is a glimmer of hope that one can happen
10:51 PM ET An MRI backed up running back Adrian Peterson’s confidence that he wouldn’t miss any time for the Washington Redskins with a shoulder injury, a source said Tuesday night. Drew Brees exposed repeated mental breakdowns by Norman and the Redskins’ defensive backs, who relayed that theyâ A Monday Night Football feud between Michael
11:07 PM ET It was a long wait — almost three-and-a-half years — but Ilya Kovalchuk finally notched career NHL goal No. 418. Kovachuk, playing in his third game as a Los Angeles King, redirected a nice centering pass from defenseman Drew Doughty on Tuesday night for a 1-0 first-period lead over the Winnipeg Jets.
10:54 PM ET A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled that show-cause order provisions in the NCAA bylaws violate California law. Judge Frederick Shaller’s decision, delivered Tuesday, confirmed a tentative decision he issued in August and comes after the NCAA provided a written objection. The show-cause provisions, Shaller wrote, “are void in California
10:49 AM ET Daniel Brettig in Dubai Australia’s coach Justin Langer took his team’s left-handed batsmen – Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Travis Head and Matt Renshaw – to the middle of the Dubai International Stadium for a debrief and discussion on how to handle a spinning pitch after the touring team were flattened by the
9:50 PM ET Dustin Poirier had to pull out of his scheduled lightweight bout with Nate Diaz at UFC 230 because of an undisclosed injury, sources told ESPN. Daniel Cormier will defend his heavyweight title against Derrick Lewis in the main event of UFC 230 on Nov. 3 in New York, UFC president Dana White
9:45 PM ET Former UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic says he spoke to the promotion about stepping in to bolster a UFC 230 event on Nov. 3 in New York, but was never offered a rematch against Daniel Cormier. Daniel Cormier will defend his heavyweight title against Derrick Lewis in the main event of UFC
9:46 PM ET Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. — Left guard Solomon Kindley participated in practice Tuesday for No. 2 Georgia, and he hasn’t been ruled out for Saturday’s game at No. 13 LSU. Kindley was carted off the field with a right knee injury early in last week’s blowout win over Vanderbilt. He has a
9:39 PM ET Rockets forward Zhou Qi was ruled out of Tuesday’s preseason game in Houston against the Shanghai Sharks with a left knee sprain. Zhou collided with Sharks forward Luis Scola late in the first quarter and was taken off the court in a wheelchair after trainers and staff helped him up. The 7-foot-2