7:00 AM ET On Saturday, the college football nation will be focused on Columbus, Ohio, and rightfully so. The No. 12 Oregon Ducks, the preseason favorite to win the Pac-12, are traveling east to face the third-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes, practically everyone’s choice to top the Big Ten. It is a rematch of the 1958
Month: September 2021
6:30 AM ET William Ricks There’s been a lot of change in the NFL as the 2021 season gets underway. The league added a 17th game to their regular-season schedule, permitted alternate uniforms for the 2022 season and gave players more freedom in picking their jersey numbers. The league has relaxed its once-stringent rule on
9:03 PM ET Lionel Messi has scored his 79th international career goal for Argentina, surpassing the South American men’s record held by Brazil legend Pele. Messi scored all three goals in Argentina’s 3-0 win over Bolivia on Thursday in a World Cup qualifying match at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, giving him two more
2:37 AM BST Lock Brodie Retallick will captain New Zealand for the first time in the absence of Ardie Savea when the All Blacks take on Argentina in the Rugby Championship on Australia’s Gold Coast on Sunday. Loose forward Savea suffered a head knock in the 38-21 defeat of the Wallabies in Perth last weekend
9:49 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Leylah Fernandez‘s first major semifinal, at the US Open just days after her 19th birthday, did not go her way at the start. After she recovered from that to take a lead, No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka pushed a match filled with momentum swings to a back-and-forth
1:25 AM ET NEW YORK — As the No. 2 player in the world was imploding with her second consecutive double fault at the worst time, Leylah Fernandez turned and glared toward her player’s box, where family and even Brooklyn Nets head coach and Canadian basketball legend Steve Nash sat on the edges of their
12:01 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — All along everybody associated with the Dallas Cowboys said they believed Dak Prescott would be Dak Prescott in the 2021 season opener. It turns out they were right, but that was not enough to overcome Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the Cowboys
12:14 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The “Tommy and Gronky” show with Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and tight end Rob Gronkowski picked up right where it left off a mere seven months and two days ago: with two touchdowns, or “tuddies,” as they call them, matching their two “tuddies” from Super Bowl LV,
11:30 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — The Blue Jays gave the Yankees a Bronx battering this week they haven’t experienced in nearly 100 years. They also pulled within a half-game of New York for the final AL wild card on Thursday night with a 6-4 win that capped a four-game sweep. “It’s
News The allrounder was due to be with Brisbane Heat for the second year of her deal New Zealand allrounder Amelia Kerr has withdrawn from this season’s WBBL with Brisbane Heat to continue managing her mental health. Kerr, who signed a two-year deal with Heat last season, opted out of the ongoing tour of England