11:31 AM BST Scottish Rugby Union chief executive Mark Dodson said he is ready to launch a legal challenge to prevent World Cup organisers cancelling his country’s game against Japan on Sunday — a measure that would almost certainly eliminate the Scots. A decision on the game in Yokohama will be made on Sunday when
Month: October 2019
11:31 AM ET Teenage American Coco Gauff beat top seed Kiki Bertens in the quarterfinals of the Linz Open in Austria on Friday, reaching her maiden WTA tour semifinal in the process. Gauff, 15, beat world No. 8 Bertens in straight sets 7-6(1), 6-4 in a closely fought match to advance to the final four.
10:29 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Milwaukee Bucks guard Eric Bledsoe will miss the start of the 2019-20 season after suffering a small fracture of his rib, a source confirmed to ESPN. Bledsoe could be out for up to three weeks, the source said, after getting injured during the Bucks’ 133-99 preseason win on Wednesday night
6:00 AM ET CINCINNATI — An unprompted comment from Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor hinted at the long-term outlook for the downtrodden franchise. After Thursday’s practice, Taylor addressed the speculation about a potential trade involving wide receiver A.J. Green, whose contract expires at the end of the season. On the same day Green practiced for
9:38 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic went from perfectly unbeatable to unbelievably beaten in the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters. Federer and Djokovic had been a combined 13-0 in Shanghai with a spot in the semifinals on the line, but both lost Friday. Federer saved five match points in
7:30 AM ET The campaign for the 2019 Heisman Trophy appeared to be a two-man race heading into the season: last year’s runner-up, Alabama‘s Tua Tagovailoa, versus the golden-boy prototype and reigning national champion, Clemson‘s Trevor Lawrence. To be sure, neither has been eliminated from contention — Tagovailoa’s early-season numbers suffer when compared to last
9:12 AM ET Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving will not play in the team’s second game in China against the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday after he aggravated a facial fracture Thursday, the team announced. Irving played just one minute of the Nets’ 114-111 win. He left the game after the Lakers’ Rajon Rondo inadvertently
8:34 AM ET We’re down to the MLB playoffs‘ final four teams. Most of the national attention will focus on the colossal showdown in the American League between the 107-win Houston Astros and 103-win New York Yankees, a rematch of the 2017 American League Championship Series that went seven games, with the home team winning
8:10 AM ET There was plenty of drama and thrills in both National League Division Series. Now we see what the Washington Nationals and St. Louis Cardinals have left in the tank as they meet with a trip to the World Series on the line. What’s on tap Friday’s schedule 8:08 p.m. ET: Nationals at
7:29 AM ET SUZUKA, Japan — With Typhoon Hagibis disrupting Formula One’s usual race weekend schedule, Friday’s second practice at Suzuka could prove to be the most significant practice session of the season. With qualifying cancelled on Saturday — and still under threat in its rescheduled time on Sunday morning — the teams were told