3:22 AM GMT The Melbourne Rebels believe a season out of Super Rugby has been a good thing for their star recruit Quade Cooper. Unwanted at the Reds for the past 12 months, Cooper will start training in Melbourne on Monday in an attempt to re-ignite his Wallabies career ahead of next year’s Rugby World
Month: November 2018
2:44 AM ET Associated Press NAGOYA, Japan — Coming off a strong showing against a team of Major League Baseball All-Stars, Japan manager Atsunori Inaba has every reason to be confident about his team’s chances of winning a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Japan won the six-game exhibition series 5-1 against an MLB
1:08 AM ET Ahead of this week’s rivalry game against USC, a well-known UCLA statue was vandalized with red and yellow paint, according to UCLA police. Sometime this week, vandals broke into a wooden box intended to protect the Bruin Bear, a focal point on campus, and spray-painted USC colors on the body and foundation
1:08 AM ET HOUSTON — Golden State Warriors superstar Kevin Durant made it clear after Thursday night’s 107-86 blowout loss to the Houston Rockets that he does not want to address the incident he had earlier this week with Draymond Green again. “Don’t ask me about that again,” Durant said tersely after being asked where
8:14 AM ET It’s Friday, here we go: 1. The E’Twaun Moore–Anthony Davis floater game, and the 15 percenters Moore might sport the league’s silkiest floater, and Alvin Gentry makes it sing by pairing Moore and Davis in a two-man game with a very specific geographic alignment: That is basically a high-speed wing pick-and-roll, with
12:26 AM GMT Wallabies coach Michael Cheika has backed 18-year-old rookie Jordan Petaia to successfully make the transition to Test rugby. The Queensland Reds flyer has been named on the wing for Saturday’s (0100 Sunday AEDT) clash with Italy in Padua – one of six changes to the side that lost 9-6 in Cardiff to
11:52 PM ET SEATTLE — Another game in Seattle, another potentially season-wrecking loss. There won’t be any catchy name for this one like the 2012 Fail Mary or the 2014 NFC Championship Game collapse. But had the Green Bay Packers won, it might have become known as “The Robert Tonyan Game.” Or “The Kyler Fackrell
2:30 AM ET Brady HendersonESPN SEATTLE — Russell Wilson overcame a lousy start with an excellent finish to send Green Bay packing. Sound familiar? No, Wilson wasn’t as bad in the first half this time as he was in the NFC Championship Game in 2015, nor was he as brilliant Thursday night as he was
11:54 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The proud and storied Puerto Rico national basketball team has no practice court and little funding in the wake of Hurricane Maria’s devastation, but it remains undaunted and determined to recruit a prodigal son to wear the island nation’s uniform. If Carmelo Anthony wants a new team, Puerto Rico has
11:43 PM ET HOUSTON — All-American defensive tackle Ed Oliver got into a heated discussion with Houston coach Major Applewhite just before halftime of the Cougars’ 48-17 win over Tulane on Thursday night. Applewhite approached Oliver, who has missed four consecutive games because of an injured knee, on the Houston sideline before halftime and removed