Month: September 2020

4:46 PM ET Yankees manager Aaron Boone announced Monday that Kyle Higashioka — not Gary Sanchez — will catch Gerrit Cole in Game 1 against the Indians on Tuesday. Cole had a 1.00 ERA in four starts this season with Higashioka behind the plate, but posted a 3.91 ERA in eight starts with Sanchez. “He
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5:18 PM ET Doc Rivers is out as head coach of the LA Clippers, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, following a season that fell well short of championship expectations after the team landed All-Stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George last summer. Against the Denver Nuggets, the Clippers squandered a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference
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12:55 PM ET The Washington Nationals did not make it into this year’s MLB playoffs, so Major League Baseball will crown a different team as champion in 2020. Can the Los Angeles Dodgers get over the final hurdle and take home their first championship since 1988? Or could the Tampa Bay Rays win their first
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11:26 AM ET ESPN News Services PARIS — Serena Williams went from a 72-minute first set that required a tiebreaker to a lopsided second set in which she did not drop a game in her first-round match at the French Open. “I just need to play with more confidence, like I’m Serena,” Williams said, by
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3:38 PM ET Associated Press A women’s doubles player has been removed from the main draw at the French Open after she was declared a contact case following her coach’s positive coronavirus test. French Open organizers did not name the player. Doubles matches start on Wednesday. The French Tennis Federation has carried out around 1,900
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8:00 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Dropped chances cost Royal Challengers Bangalore dearly in their match against Kings XI Punjab last week. On Monday night, the Royal Challengers dropped three more catches, including one regulation chance – the substitute Pawan Negi putting down Kieron Pollard at deep extra-cover – that could have proven just as costly.
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Sep 27, 2020 The early indications suggest it’s going to be an unpredictable season in the SEC. And perhaps a wild couple of months in the Big 12. And for the ACC, most definitely a race for second best. How would you rank each team in the three Power 5 conferences that have already begun?
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9:37 AM ET Associated Press US Open champion Dominic Thiem advanced to the second round of the French Open by beating former US Open champion Marin Cilic 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. The third-seeded Austrian won his first major tournament at Flushing Meadows two weeks ago and is among the favorites again at Roland Garros after losing
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