Month: May 2021

6:18 AM ET Violence during Sunday’s protests from Manchester United fans, which led to the Premier League game with Liverpool being postponed, has been condemned by the UK government’s sports minister and the mayor of Greater Manchester. United fans protesting against the club’s American owners, the Glazer family, stormed into the stadium which was closed
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6:27 AM BST Happy to claim the underdog status, coach Dan McKellar says the Super Rugby AU season has positioned the Brumbies perfectly to snatch the title from competition favourites Queensland on Saturday night. McKellar said when he looked at the draw pre-season he had concerns that if his team had finished top of the
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3:48 AM ET Losers of six out of their past seven games with just two weeks remaining in the regular season, the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers don’t look anything like a title team right now. And after Sunday’s 121-114 defeat at Staples Center to a Toronto Raptors team that came into the night 12
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12:25 AM ET DALLAS — Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic is one technical foul shy this season of hitting the threshold for an automatic one-game suspension following his ejection from Dallas’ 111-99 loss to the Sacramento Kings on Sunday. Doncic received his 14th technical foul of the season in the second quarter and his 15th with
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11:49 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — While the Boston Celtics suffered a 129-119 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers at TD Garden on Sunday night, of far greater concern was the status of All-Star guard Jaylen Brown after he limped off the court without putting any weight on his right leg after awkwardly colliding
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6:40 PM ET Associated Press PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Eight times this season, Sam Burns has been atop the leaderboard after every round except the one that mattered. That changed, finally, at the Valspar Championship. Burns got some help from Keegan Bradley hitting into the water on the 13th hole, and then the 24-year-old from
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10:16 PM ET DALLAS — Sacramento Kings rookie guard Tyrese Haliburton suffered a left knee injury that forced him to exit Sunday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks in the third quarter. Haliburton will have an MRI on Monday morning, but there’s initial optimism he may have avoided a serious injury, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
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7:05 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kyle Busch celebrated his 36th birthday Sunday by winning a two-lap sprint to the finish at Kansas Speedway, becoming the 10th different winner through the first 11 races of the NASCAR Cup Series season. Busch had stalked Kyle Larson all day before beating him on a
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9:20 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — Max Scherzer delivered in a hurry, tossing a five-hitter to lead the Washington Nationals over the Miami Marlins 3-1. Then it was on to more important matters. Scherzer hustled out of Nationals Park after a game that took only 2 hours, 37 minutes, hurrying to be with
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