Month: October 2021

So, Week 6 was wild, huh? Alabama lost. Oklahoma won with its backup QB. And Iowa defeated Penn State in a battle of top-five teams. Do you want to predict the future? For the past seven years, the Allstate Playoff Predictor has been painting a week-to-week picture of which teams have a realistic chance to
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5:42 AM ET U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu had to work hard for her first win on the WTA Tour after her fairytale New York triumph as she recovered from a set down to beat world No. 124 Polona Hercog 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the Transylvania Open in Romania on Tuesday. Raducanu announced herself on
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9:41 PM ET HOUSTON — Shohei Ohtani was presented with the Commissioner’s Historic Achievement Award less than an hour before the start of the 2021 World Series on Tuesday night, a trophy with few recipients to commemorate a season without equal. Ohtani wore all black, sat next to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and
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10:13 PM ET HOUSTON — Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is deferring to the Native American community in and around Atlanta on whether it’s appropriate for the Braves to be encouraging the tomahawk chop gesture when the World Series is there for Games 3-5 this weekend. “It’s important to understand we have 30 markets
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9:51 PM ET HOUSTON — Charlie Morton‘s season ended in the third inning of the 2021 World Series. X-rays revealed that Morton, the Atlanta Braves’ veteran starting pitcher, suffered a fractured right fibula early in Game 1 on Tuesday night, seemingly after getting hit by a 102.4 mph comebacker off the bat of Houston Astros
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11:28 PM ET A-League player Josh Cavallo has described the ‘immense support’ he’s received since coming out to his Adelaide United teammates. Mark Brake/Getty Images Adelaide United midfielder Josh Cavallo on Wednesday became a rarity in professional sport: an openly gay male athlete. Cavallo hopes more professional footballers will follow his lead and publicly announce that
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