3:00 AM ET New Zealand 249 (Taylor 86, Dananjaya 5-80, Lakmal 4-29) v Sri Lanka The lower half of New Zealand’s batting order unravelled dramatically on the morning of day two, with the wicket of Ross Taylor setting in motion a collapse that cost them five wickets for 44 runs. Seam bowler Suranga Lakmal claimed
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7:45 AM BST New Zealand vs. Australia, Eden Park, Auckland, Saturday Aug. 17, 7.35pm [NZT], 5.35pm [AEST], 7.35am [GMT] This has been some Bledisloe week. The stage is set for one of the great trans-Tasman deciders after a dramatic few days of verbal exchanges following the sending off of Scott Barrett in Bledisloe I. The
5:46 AM ET ESPN staff Kimi Raikkonen’s son, Robin, has driven his first laps in a go-kart, marking what could be the start of a career following in his father’s wheel tracks. Raikkonen posted images and video of his four-year-old son driving around a wet go-kart track on Instagram with the caption “ACEMAN BEGINS”. He
Lionel Messi ensures Barcelona fans the club will fight for every trophy in 2019-20 after only winning La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup in 2018-19. Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde says Lionel Messi will not be risked for the Spanish champions’ La Liga opener against Athletic Bilbao on Friday. Messi injured his calf in training
CARY, N.C. — They know a thing or two about soccer teams that are larger than life here. They knew long before the North Carolina Courage and Lyon won Thursday’s semifinals in the Women’s International Champions Cup. People in this area lived it when Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly and company ran the rest of college
Josef Martinez converted his second penalty attempt to score Atlanta United’s winner and secure the first Campeones Cup win for an MLS side. Atlanta United head coach Frank de Boer believes his team’s 3-2 victory over Club America on Wednesday is a significant step to MLS closing the gap with Liga MX. Mexico’s top division
ESPN FC’s Steve Nicol has had enough of people hating on Mesut Ozil and believes he’d be an asset to D.C. United and MLS. Craig Burley explains why Arsenal could break back into the top four this season after getting off to a winning start against Newcastle. Arsenal open the season with a narrow win
12:28 AM ET ESPN staff and AAP The record books will say Karen Khachanov beat Nick Kyrgios two sets to one in a second-round match in Cincinnati on Wednesday, but that tells virtually none of the actual story. It was another ride on the Kyrgios roller coaster, mixing sublime tennis, some on-court humour, with swearing
Faith begins when reason ends. You get to the outer limits of your rational tether and then you take that big leap. It’s not necessarily a bad thing: Belief is central to sports. History is filled with stories of those who believed in themselves, thereby achieving great things. There’s also a rich trove of “outside-the-box”
12:27 AM ET As CBA negotiations between the NFL and the NFLPA continue to make little progress, the NFLPA has issued a “work stoppage guide” to its players to help them prepare in case of a strike or lockout following the 2020 season. Sources on both sides of the negotiations continue to insist a work