Month: October 2018

1:38 PM ET Shortly after the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers finished up the longest game in World Series history Saturday morning, the championship series of professional ball in Japan got underway — and ended in a 12-inning tie. The Hiroshima Carp and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks played to a 2-2, 12-inning tie Saturday
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3:30 PM ET ESPN staff Clemson has left a strong final impression on the College Football Playoff committee before the first rankings on Tuesday. Meanwhile, West Virginia gets back on track and Wisconsin’s season goes from bad to worse. No. 2 Clemson 59, Florida State 10 The Tigers beat down rival Florida State so badly,
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1:02 PM ET Kei Nishikori will face Kevin Anderson in the final of the Vienna Open after sealing a straight-sets win over Mikhail Kukushkin in the semifinals on Saturday. No. 5 seed Nishikori broke Kukushkin’s serve once in each set, including in the final game of the opener, as he won 6-4, 6-3 in one
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12:59 PM ET World No. 93 Marius Copil will face Roger Federer in the Swiss Indoors final after he shocked Alexander Zverev in the semifinals Saturday. Copil, who entered the tournament in Switzerland as a qualifier, broke world No. 5 Zverev in the final game of the match to secure a 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-4 win,
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12:54 PM BST Courtney Lawes has left England’s autumn international training camp in Portugal because of a back injury, the Rugby Football Union confirmed on Saturday. Lawes has returned home from the camp in Vilamoura to undergo treatment on a pre-existing back injury but is expected to return to the squad next week. He now
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12:18 PM ET Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State interim president John Engler says it’s “absurd” and “ridiculous” that the Big Ten fined his school $10,000 over last weekend’s pregame hostilities with rival Michigan. Engler spoke to WJR radio before Michigan State’s game against Purdue on Saturday. The Big Ten fined Michigan State,
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11:26 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Sloane Stephens overcame a terrible start against Karolina Pliskova to win 0-6, 6-4, 6-1 at the WTA Finals on Saturday, setting up a championship match against Elina Svitolina. “I came out here a little bit nervous and I wasn’t quite feeling the ball,” said the fifth-seeded Stephens, who
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9:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — When desperation turned to insanity and insanity turned to sheer, unadulterated madness, three bananas found their way atop the railing of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ dugout. Five paper cups dangled off them, held together by two strips of athletic tape. Brian Dozier came over and sprinkled sunflower seeds on
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