Month: November 2018

5:02 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Julio Rangel has been hired by the Texas Rangers as pitching coach for new manager Chris Woodward. Rangel will be with a big league staff for the first time after 12 years as a pitching instructor and coordinator at the minor league level with the San Francisco
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5:08 PM ET Associated Press ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Charles Howell III was just as good on the tougher scoring course at Sea Island with another 64 to match the best 36-hole score of his career and build a 3-shot lead in the RSM Classic. Howell was bogey-free for the second straight round. He
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5:03 PM ET The Denver Nuggets have added championship experience to their front office. Three-time WNBA champ Sue Bird has joined the Nuggets as basketball operations associate, the team announced Friday. “We are very excited to have Sue join our organization,” Nuggets president Tim Connelly said. “Her résumé certainly speaks for itself, and as a
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4:53 PM ET The Big Game between California and Stanford set for Saturday in Berkeley has been rescheduled for Dec. 1 because of poor air quality in Northern California brought on by wildfires. “We have been carefully tracking air quality in Berkeley and the Bay Area over the past week, relying on the best data
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4:58 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Jimmy Graham‘s return to Seattle left him with a broken thumb that could sideline him for at least part of the remainder of the season. Tests on Friday showed the Green Bay Packers tight end broke his thumb, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The team trying to
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3:58 PM GMT Steve Brown is to step down as CEO of England’s Rugby Football Union (RFU), the governing body said on Friday. His decision comes just days after the sport’s biggest and richest union defended itself against claims by one his predecessors of poor financial management. Brown succeeded Ian Ritchie in Sept. 2017 having
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3:59 PM ET PASADENA, Calif. — A three-judge United States Court of Appeals panel heard oral arguments Friday to determine if a new civil trial should be granted to a woman who accused Minnesota Timberwolves guard Derrick Rose and two of his friends of rape. An eight-member jury in a Los Angeles federal court found
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3:39 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — For one of the first times in Mike McCarthy’s 13-year tenure as Green Bay Packers coach, his job security has become an issue. A day after Thursday’s loss at Seattle dropped the Packers to 4-5-1 this season — including an 0-5 road record — McCarthy was asked if
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