11:07 PM ET A friend and co-worker of mine is a big Houston Astros fan. I bumped into him in the office Wednesday afternoon and asked him if he had watched Zack Greinke‘s debut with the team. He joked that of course he watched it since he has missed only 10 minutes of Astros baseball
Month: August 2019
10:55 PM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Cricket Australia has announced its first transgender policy for top-level cricket and guidelines for the community game to support players electing to participate in line with their gender identity, whether or not this aligns with the sex they were born with. CA’s elite cricket policy, which was launched at the
6:56 AM ET CINCINNATI — On the road again. I just can’t wait to get on the road again. It was good enough for Willie Nelson, but it might not be for the Chicago Cubs as they take their act on the road, where the results have been decidedly different than at home this season.
8:00 AM ET THE BOYS HATED the hill. It loomed over every teenage workout like an appointment with an outdoor torture chamber. They could feel it in their lungs and in their legs well before they arrived at the park near their house in Orange, California. The hill was almost 80 yards long, rows of
Craig Burley and the FC crew weigh in on the reports that Tottenham are close to signing Paulo Dybala from Juventus. Julien Laurens explains why Manchester United’s pursuit of Paulo Dybala stalled and what it means for Romelu Lukaku’s future. Inter notched their first win of the International Champions Cup as Tottenham ended their preseason
Our ESPN FC panel give their Premier League predictions, including some surprising picks for top 6 and player of the year. Alejandro Moreno feels D.C. United can’t afford to sign the “inconsistent” Mesut Ozil from Arsenal, after sources say the club and player are in talks. ESPN FC’s Alejandro Moreno and Craig Burley take issue
8:38 PM ET BALTIMORE — The Bronx Bombers are doing their best bombing in Baltimore. In the city where Francis Scott Key penned “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the New York Yankees went deep five times against the Orioles in Wednesday’s 14-2 win at Camden Yards. That gave them 52 homers against Baltimore and broke the record
7:14 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — Clemson’s national championship football program was flagged for eight secondary NCAA violations during a yearlong period from July 2018 through this past June. The school’s athletic department released a summary of the infractions Wednesday. None of the violations was considered major, and all issues about the penalties
6:25 PM ET Kevin Durant, in his first interview since rupturing his Achilles tendon in Game 5 of the NBA Finals in June, said he does not hold the Golden State Warriors accountable for the injury. “Hell, no. How can you blame [the Warriors]? Hell, no,” Durant told Yahoo Sports, speaking at a house in
6:33 PM ET ESPN News Services Standardized injury reports will not be implemented across college football this season after the NCAA explored the possibility in response to the rise of legalized sports betting. The NCAA’s board of governors said Wednesday it still supports the association’s rules prohibiting athletes and school administrators from wagering on sports