Month: October 2019

9:00 AM BST England have made one change for Saturday’s Rugby World Cup semifinal against New Zealand, with George Ford returning to the starting lineup. Ford starts at fly-half, with captain Owen Farrell shifted to inside centre and Manu Tuilagi outside. 1 Related Henry Slade drops to the bench, where Mark Wilson replaces Lewis Ludlam.
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8:35 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Former tennis player-turned-businessman Andrea Gaudenzi will take over as chairman of the ATP next year. The Italian, who won three tour-level titles and reached a career-high ranking of 18th before retiring in 2003, will start the job on Jan. 1, replacing Chris Kermode. Gaudenzi said it is “a
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Oct 22, 2019 Ben Askren has never been afraid to speak his mind. He stormed into the UFC last year after a historic trade and exchanged verbal shots with just about everyone, from Conor McGregor to Colby Covington to Dana White. Askren makes his third Octagon appearance Saturday against Demian Maia in the main event
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5:50 AM ET Jordan Spieth has said that he believes hemp oils and creams can help professional golfers with their aches and pains but is concerned that lack of regulation of the products could lead to a player failing a drug test. Spieth and Rory McIlroy, both recent world No. 1 players, said they are
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3:42 AM ET Associated Press BUSAN, South Korea — Minjee Lee overcame a series of changing weather conditions at the Buick Ladies Championship to take a one-stroke lead with a bogey-free 6-under 66 after the first round of the LPGA tournament. “Sometime we had sunshine, wind, rain … we had a little bit of everything
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3:26 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” HOUSTON — The Houston Astros did something Wednesday night that for any other team would have registered as benign. Juan Soto, the 20-year-old wunderkind who hits cleanup for the Washington Nationals, was
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8:08 AM GMT Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan‘s aggressive attitude during the Wednesday meeting between the board officials and the striking cricketers, especially his takedown of allrounder Mehidy Hasan, apparently threw the players off to start with, one of them even saying that the incident “rattled” them. One of the puzzling sidelights of the
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