Month: October 2018

12:43 AM ET HOUSTON — Five games into the season, the 1-4 Houston Rockets intend to drastically alter their defensive scheme, having come to the conclusion that the switch-everything style that was successful last season isn’t suited to their personnel. “We’ve got to go back to the drawing board and figure out what’s going to
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11:33 PM ET Banned Australia batsman David Warner has been involved in a bizarre incident during a grade match in Sydney on Saturday where he walked off the pitch mid-innings. Playing for Randwick-Petersham against Western Suburbs, Warner left the field when on 35. The suggestion from the ground was that he had taken offence to
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10:37 PM ET UFC featherweight contender Frankie Edgar has been forced to pull out of a scheduled main event against Chan Sung Jung at UFC Fight Night on Nov. 10 because of an injury, and the UFC has booked Yair Rodriguez as a short-notice replacement. The UFC Fight Night event is scheduled to take place
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10:27 PM ET The prospect of the New York Mets hiring agent Brodie Van Wagenen as general manager has alarmed a number of players, according to players’ association executive director Tony Clark. “I won’t tell you how many calls or how many texts I have gotten,” Clark said Friday before Game 3 of the World
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9:59 PM ET Wyoming defensive tackle Youhanna Ghaifan, a first-team All-Mountain West selection last season, has been suspended indefinitely after being issued a summons for harassment and false imprisonment following an altercation with a hotel employee, coach Craig Bohls said Friday. The incident took place in Fort Collins, Colorado, where the Cowboys played Colorado State
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9:39 PM ET A women’s super fight between unified lightweight world titlist Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, who has won world titles in six weight classes and currently holds a junior welterweight belt, is in the works. Serrano and promoter Lou DiBella have agreed to a three-fight co-promotional deal with Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn,
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8:39 PM ET NEW YORK — Golden State Warriors big man DeMarcus Cousins was ejected from Friday night’s game against the New York Knicks after picking up a technical foul from the bench in the first quarter. Cousins, who is rehabbing from a torn left Achilles, has been traveling with the Warriors throughout the season
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