Joe Root says that he could almost “hear the smile down the phone” when Ben Stokes rang him to say he was ready to return to action for this winter’s Ashes tour, and knows that his team-mate will do everything in his power to be fully prepared for the first Test in Brisbane on December
Month: November 2021
1:57 PM ET China will take part in the Olympic men’s ice hockey tournament at the Beijing Games despite concerns that the host nation will be embarrassed competitively by established hockey nations. China is currently seeded in Group A with top-ranked Canada, the U.S. and Germany. Although China is the No. 12 seed in the
2:13 PM BST South Africa full-back Damian Willemse has been handed a rare start as one of four changes to the match-day squad for the autumn international series match against Wales in Cardiff on Saturday. Willemse, an exciting utility player who can feature almost anywhere in the backline, has been brought into the side that
1:27 PM ET Georgia Southern is in negotiations with Clay Helton to make him the school’s next football coach, sources told ESPN. Helton, whom USC fired Sept. 13, could finalize an agreement in the next 24 hours. Georgia Southern fired Chad Lunsford as coach on Sept. 26, following a 1-3 start to the season. Helton
Report Pakistan ticked several boxes as they wrapped up a fourth win in four games at the T20 World Cup Pakistan 189 for 2 (Rizwan 79*, Babar 70) beat Namibia 144 for 5 (Wiese 43, Williams 40, Imad 1-13, Hasan 1-22) by 45 runs With one foot in the semi-final already, and having an opportunity
7:18 AM ET Lionel Messi was not included in the Paris St-Germain squad that will face RB Leipzig in the Champions League on Wednesday but forward Kylian Mbappe made the team. Messi had limped off during their 2-1 win over Lille in Ligue 1 on Friday and was not included in the 21-member squad named
9:21 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Pep Guardiola said Manchester City‘s Champions League clash with Club Brugge is “much more important” than Saturday’s trip to Old Trafford for the Manchester derby. City, second in Group A behind Paris Saint-Germain, can take a giant step towards the knock-out rounds with victory over the Belgian side at the
7:59 AM ET Tottenham Hotspur have appointed former Chelsea, Juventus and Inter Milan coach Antonio Conte to replace Nuno Espirito Santo. Conte returns to the Premier League having won the division with Chelsea in 2017 and the FA Cup a year later. He also won Serie A during his spells at Juventus and Inter. Conte
10:10 AM ET Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been indicted by Swiss prosecutors. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Sepp Blatter, the former FIFA president, and Michel Platini, ex-president at UEFA, were charged with fraud and other offences by Swiss prosecutors on Tuesday after a six-year investigation of a controversial $2 million payment. Blatter, 85, and Platini, 65,
1:57 PM ET There’s the journey, and there’s the destination. For a sport dominated by haves and have-nots — so, most sports — we generally understand that the winner of a league or tournament is going to come from a select minority of teams. But in instances in which the destination is predictable, or even