10:51 AM ET Rockets star point guard Russell Westbrook will not play Monday against the Grizzlies, resting the second half of Houston’s back-to-back. Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni said before Sunday’s game against the Heat that Westbrook likely would rest the next night’s game, and the injury report released Monday afternoon confirmed Westbook would skip the
Month: November 2019
10:51 AM ET Rockets star point guard Russell Westbrook will not play Monday against the Grizzlies, resting the second half of Houston’s back-to-back, a source tells ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni said before Sunday’s game against the Heat that Westbrook likely would rest the next night’s game. But after Houston was routed, 129-100,
9:39 AM ET Cleveland Browns safety Jermaine Whitehead is the latest athlete to get in trouble for things he’s posted on social media. Hours after his poor performance in Sunday’s loss at Denver, Whitehead posted profanity-laced and threatening comments on Twitter. The Browns responded by waiving him on Monday morning. “Jermaine Whitehead’s social media posts
10:37 AM ET Associated Press BOSTON — The NBA has agreed to a multiyear deal making DraftKings an official sports betting operator. The Boston-based company joins a half-dozen others, including MGM and longtime daily fantasy sports rival FanDuel, with deals that allow them the rights to official betting data and NBA logos. Professional sports leagues
So Rugby Union completes a ninth World Cup — bringing it to where football was in 1974 — with a tournament in which the fashionable pre-tournament pick proved to be the smart one. South Africa continued its 12-year cycle of victories, on the way trashing the theory that to lose one match was to lose
8:56 AM ET The Cleveland Browns have waived Jermaine Whitehead the morning after the team condemned the safety’s profanity-laced and threatening social media comments. Broncos tight end Noah Fant ran over Whitehead on the way to a 75-yard touchdown reception. That, and a missed tackle on another big Denver play, drew criticism of Whitehead on
6:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Each Wednesday last season, Jason Witten would break down film at an office not far from his home, going through the same routine he had during his entire career with the Dallas Cowboys. The remote never left his hand as he watched play after play on a laptop for
6:00 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The competitive fire drives New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley. As a matter of fact, it burns constantly, perhaps dormant only for the few hours he sleeps each night. “I’m definitely competitive,” Barkley said. Barkley is next level. To the point where Giants receiver Sterling Shepard, one
8:00 AM GMT India B 283 for 7 (Jadhav 86, Jaiswal 54, Vijay Shankar 45, Gowtham 35*, Porel 5-43) beat India C 232 for 9 (Garg 74, Axar 38, Saxena 37*, Nadeem 4-32, Siraj 2-43) by 51 runs It was the best pitch of the competition, not as bat-first-win-game as the previous fixtures, but a
3:17 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Kawhi Leonard maneuvered into the paint where he was greeted by a wall of Utah Jazz defenders before another one blocked his shot from behind. Everywhere Leonard seemed to move in the first half on Sunday night, Jazz defenders surrounded and harassed him into 1-for-9 shooting before the break.