The aggregate batting average on this Pallekele pitch can only be compared to the 1997 Test at the R Premadasa Stadium, in which Sri Lanka posted a world-record 952 for 6. After seeing his bowlers suffer for three days, Sachin Tendulkar called it unfit for Test cricket. Depending on how much more is scored in
7:50 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. It’s a full day of action around the NHL on Saturday, with 11 games on the schedule. The drama begins at 12:30 p.m. ET with the Pittsburgh Penguins hosting the New Jersey Devils,
8:00 AM ET The UFC will take another big step toward normalcy this weekend, with a UFC 261 pay-per-view event in Jacksonville, Florida, in front of a full capacity crowd. It’s pretty interesting this landmark event will feature a welterweight title fight main event between Kamaru Usman (18-1) and Jorge Masvidal. (35-14). That’s the exact
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3:08 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry paid Draymond Green the ultimate compliment after watching the forward tie a career high with 19 assists in Friday’s 118-97 win over the Denver Nuggets on Friday night, calling him the “smartest basketball player I’ve played with.” “When he gets in a groove
3:38 PM ET The Super League debacle is over but the recriminations have only just begun. Twelve clubs who sought to shatter the existing structure of European football now face retribution from the organisations they tried to leave behind. UEFA, the national associations and the leagues are each exploring options open to them, both in
4:00 PM ET Sid LoweSpain writer Sunday night/Monday morning: It was 5 a.m. and 12 clubs finally stumbled out of the bar into the breaking day, drunk on selfishness and a lack of solidarity. That was the cartoonish portrait painted by Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga who had been waiting for this moment
News Kumara’s exit leaves Sri Lanka with only three frontline bowlers for the second innings Seamer Lahiru Kumara will not bowl again in the ongoing series against Bangladesh after picking up a hamstring injury while fielding on day three, in Pallekele. MRI scans on Friday evening confirmed the presence of the injury. He had bowled
10:46 PM ET Denver Nuggets guard Will Barton suffered a right hamstring injury less than a minute into Friday night’s 118-97 loss to the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco and did not return. Nuggets head coach Michael Malone told ESPN during the game broadcast that Barton told him he felt something pop in the
11:38 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Celtics guard Evan Fournier struggled Friday night in his first game since recovering from COVID-19, missing all seven shots he took in 22 minutes of Boston’s 109-104 loss to the Eastern Conference-leading Brooklyn Nets in New York. Fournier, who hadn’t played since April 4, talked afterward about the difficulty he