8:08 PM ET Mitchell Lamb SATURDAY’S BEST Moonee Valley Race 1 No.8 Drachenfels (Damian Lane) – $8 Regular Sydney punters will know Drachenfels well; he was a horse with a bit of a boom early but one who didn’t always seem to finish off his races when looming to win. They gelded him after that
11:15 AM ET The first hard-earned lesson of being a Cleveland Browns fan is to never get too far ahead of yourself. In the summer of 2014, the city was so enthralled with its new quarterback that his jersey sales zoomed all the way to No. 1 in the NFL. Johnny Manziel‘s No. 2 is
8:27 PM ET ESPN News Services PARAMUS, N.J. — Sean O’Hair missed the cut last week and saw his FedEx Cup standing slip to No. 121, meaning he has to play well this week or his season is over. His immediate goal is to advance to the third stage of events because the BMW Championship
7:31 PM ET The Penn State University Police Department announced Thursday that it has made an arrest after an investigation into a threat via Twitter vowing to carry out a mass shooting during a football game at Beaver Stadium. Charles Thomas Hitechew, 22, of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, was charged with two counts of terroristic threats and
6:36 PM ET MVP James Harden says Carmelo Anthony‘s transition to the Houston Rockets will be “a breeze.” “Coming off an MVP season, now you got to add Carmelo Anthony, it’s going to be easy,” Harden said in an interview posted Thursday on The Players’ Tribune. “The transition is easy. When you got that many
6:31 PM ET Top UFC welterweight Santiago Ponzinibbio will headline a card in his home country of Argentina as he takes on Neil Magny as the main event of UFC Fight Night: Buenos Aires on Nov. 17, a source confirmed to ESPN. Ponzinibbio (26-3), the No. 10-ranked fighter in the division, has won six bouts
9:25 AM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports Bill Elliott has an easy answer to the question of why he is competing in an Xfinity Series race at 62 years old. “Why not do it?” Elliott said. Elliott will drive the
5:53 PM ET Yair Rodriguez will no longer compete in a highly anticipated UFC 228 matchup with Zabit Magomedsharipov due to an undisclosed injury, sources confirmed to ESPN following a report by MMA Brasil. The UFC is actively looking for a replacement opponent to fight Magomedsharipov on that Sept. 8 card. The initial featherweight matchup
3:00 AM ET Lancashire 134 for 4 (Jennings 46) beat Kent 133 for 9 (Billings 37, Parkinson 3-27) by six wicketsScorecard Only one score lower than Kent’s 133 had ever been successfully defended in a T20 tie at Canterbury, but the overwrought faces on the Lancashire bench were a reminder that nothing would be automatic
6:54 PM BST Chris Ashton has been banned for seven weeks after his red card in Sale Sharks’ pre-season friendly against Castres. The 31-year-old was only in his second game since joining from Toulon in July, but received the red for a dangerous tip tackle. Ashton did not accept the charge for the tackle on