4:48 PM ET After missing 10 games to start the season, Detroit Pistons forward Blake Griffin plans to make his season-debut against Minnesota on Monday, league sources tell ESPN. Griffin, who’s been rehabilitating a sore knee and hamstring since preseason, had been ramping up for a return in recent days. He had several pain-free practices
Month: November 2019
4:20 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Denzel Mims made a leaping 4-yard touchdown catch in the third overtime for Baylor, capping another comeback win for the No. 11 Bears and keeping them undefeated with a 29-23 win over TCU on Saturday. Charlie Brewer also threw a 20-yard TD pass to Mims on
3:42 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s Jordan Howden picked off Sean Clifford in the end zone with 1:01 left, the third interception thrown by Penn State’s quarterback, and the 17th-ranked Gophers held on for a 31-26 victory on Saturday afternoon over the fifth-ranked Nittany Lions for their first win over a top-five team
3:17 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Kyle Busch won the pole and all eight title contenders qualified in the top 10 for the final race to decide the championship field. Busch earned the top starting spot for Sunday’s race at ISM Raceway outside of Phoenix. He turned a lap in Saturday qualifying at
2:29 PM ET Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry has been diagnosed with a fracture of the distal phalanx of his left thumb and will be reevaluated in two weeks, the team announced Saturday. With the two-week timetable, Lowry will miss the Raptors’ first game against Kawhi Leonard and the LA Clippers. Lowry suffered the
1:47 PM ET Rickie Fowler has withdrawn from next week’s Mayakoba Classic near Cancun, Mexico, due to an intestinal bacterial infection that he contracted while on his recent honeymoon. Fowler, who has not played since the Tour Championship in August and was not chosen by captain Tiger Woods on Thursday to be part of the
12:54 PM ET Naoya Inoue’s ambitious plans for 2020 under his new co-promotional deal with Top Rank may have to be tempered. While “The Monster” unified bantamweight world titles and won the eight-man World Boxing Super Series tournament by unanimous decision against Nonito Donaire on Thursday at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, the
1:12 PM ET Eddie Pepperell was disqualified from the Turkish Airlines Open on Saturday when he ran out of golf balls. The English pro who was competing in the European Tour event hit as many as five golf balls — his playing partners were unsure — into the water on the par-5 fourth hole at
8:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Toss Afghanistan chose to bowl v West Indies Rashid Khan won the toss in the second ODI and elected to bowl as Afghanistan looked to stop a ten-match ODI losing streak. To that end, they chose to tweak the side that lost in the first ODI. Allrounder and former captain
12:55 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN New Orleans Pelicans point guard Lonzo Ball will miss Saturday’s game against the Charlotte Hornets with a right adductor strain, the team announced. Ball said he originally suffered the injury against Oklahoma City Thunder on Nov. 2. He felt the pain then but played through it against Brooklyn on Monday.