5:37 AM ET The Philadelphia 76ers have hired former Duke and WNBA star Lindsey Harding as a full time scout for next season. Harding, the No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA in 2007, is only the second former WNBA player to be hired for a fulltime scouting position with an NBA team. Dallas Mavericks
2:41 AM BST With Michael Cheika showing no signs of budging from his Michael Hooper-David Pocock combination, the search to find the third man in Australia’s back-row trio for next year’s Rugby World Cup continues. The latest cab off the rank is Lukhan Tui, a western-Sydney raised 21-year-old who, in the Bledisloe Cup opener, will
shares Nasir Jamshed failed again, this time falling for 4 © AFP Pakistan batsman Nasir Jamshed has been banned for ten years after an independent anti-corruption tribunal found him guilty of five breaches of the PCB’s anti-corruption code. In a short verdict, the three-man tribunal ruled on Monday that apart from suspension from any
1:01 AM ET After the shenanigans from Jose Urena on Wednesday, it was a less eventful day on Thursday across the majors … Dr. Feelgood: Thankfully, Ronald Acuna Jr. was back in the lineup for the Braves after Urena plunked him in the elbow. He didn’t hit another home run, but Acuna did go 1-for-4
12:49 AM ET Associated Press PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Texas teen Cole Hammer won two matches Thursday at Pebble Beach to advance to the U.S. Amateur quarterfinals. Brandt Snedeker became the first PGA Tour player to break 60 after making a bogey on his first hole, carding a first-round 59 at the Wyndham Championship. Lizette
8:30 AM ET PITTSBURGH — It’ll be a night they’ll tell their grandkids about, especially Chicago Cubs rookie David Bote. Last Sunday, on national television, Bote hit the only walk-off grand slam in baseball history in which a team was trailing 3-0 and down to its last out — let alone the last strike. It
12:49 AM ET It’s Week 2 of the NFL’s preseason and we inch ever closer to the games that count. But there’s plenty to glean: How did the rookies look? Who’s making a push to be a starter? Who’s carving out a spot on the final 53? Here’s the biggest takeaway for each team. The
11:36 PM ET ESPN News Services Just before the most lopsided defeat of her career, Serena Williams suffered a devastating off-court blow. Williams revealed to Time, in an interview for a feature published Thursday, that she learned about 10 minutes before her match against Johanna Konta at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic that the man
11:04 PM ET Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — Johnny Sauter took the lead when John Hunter Nemechek slowed because of late fuel pump issues, then held off Stewart Friesen on Thursday night at Bristol Motor Speedway for his fifth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory of the season. Kasey Kahne, who has 18 career wins
8:55 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Lizette Salas matched the Brickyard Crossing record with a 10-under 62 on Thursday in the Indy Women in Tech Championship, birdieing the final three holes for a two-stroke lead over fast-starting Angel Yin and Japan’s Nasa Hataoka. Yin birdied eight of the first nine holes in her morning