7:46 AM ET Associated Press Poland had not been to the World Cup in 52 years. It’s making up for lost time. Poland is in the driver’s seat for a quarterfinal berth next week after beating Russia 79-74 in a second-round opener on Friday in Foshan, China. Adam Waczynski scored 18 points and Mateusz Ponitka
Month: September 2019
4:56 AM BST Wallabies back row star David Pocock will retire from Test rugby after the upcoming World Cup. Pocock will captain the Wallabies against Samoa in Sydney on Saturday, in what will now be his final test in Australia and his 78th overall. “I feel like it’s time for me to move onto other
The U.S. always hate losing to Mexico but even the most ardent of supporters could find little fault with Friday night’s 3-0 defeat at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez opened the scoring with a sharp, predatory effort following Jesus “Tecatito” Corona‘s cheeky nutmeg of U.S. debutant Sergino Dest to set up
10:31 PM ET Neymar scored for Brazil on Friday night in his return to action since a foot injury earlier in the summer sidelined him. RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images Neymar‘s second half goal gave Brazil a 2-2 draw against South American rivals Colombia in an international friendly on Friday night. The match at Hard Rock Stadium in
10:25 PM ET Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez scored in the first half, Erick Gutierrez and Uriel Antuna had late goals four minutes apart and Mexico defeated the U.S. men’s national team 3-0 in a friendly at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on Friday. Hernandez made it 1-0 in the 21st minute; Gutierrez scored his first
1:53 AM ET CHICAGO — Aaron Rodgers wanted Matt LaFleur to have the game ball after the new Green Bay Packers coach’s first win, and he also wanted LaFleur to know something else after the quarterback and his offense struggled. So after Rodgers kneeled on the final play of the Packers’ 10-3 victory over the
1:37 AM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and interim titleholder Dustin Poirier each made weight on Friday ahead of their 155-pound unification clash at UFC 242. Nurmagomedov (27-0) was the first fighter on the scale at the Crowne Plaza hotel on Friday morning, local time, and weighed in
9:35 PM ET The Portland Timbers and Sporting Kansas City are both below the playoff line as they enter Saturday’s pivotal match. It is a rematch of last season’s Western Conference championship won by the Timbers, with Sporting Kansas City being the hotter team as they arrive for the match at Providence Park in the
1:34 AM BST Backline veteran Adam Ashley-Cooper is excited about Australia’s prospects, describing the 2019 group as the most connected of the four Wallabies World Cup squads in which he’s been selected. The 35-year-old utility back will win his 119th cap against Samoa in Sydney on Saturday, when Australia play their last Test before the
Ghanaian striker Kwesi Appiah is under pressure heading into AFC Wimbledon’s fixture against key rivals Milton Keynes Dons, which is the pick of the EFL League One’s seventh round of matches this weekend. Appiah may have scored two goals this season (more than any other Wimbledon player) from five appearances, but he has generally been playing