Month: September 2022

8:09 AM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Mickey Joseph said Tuesday that he wants to be Nebraska’s next head football coach and not just the interim guy for the next nine games. Joseph met with the media for the first time since athletic director Trev Alberts asked him to lead the program the rest
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7:00 AM ET Tears flowed in the locker room. Players hugged each other as high school teammates for the last time. Documentarian Tommy Haines was struck by the rawness of the emotions, even in a land where hockey is considered life. “It was brutal. I felt for them,” Haines said, adding that his crew eventually
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9:52 PM BST After a weekend off, the Rugby Championship resumes on Thursday night with the Wallabies hosting the All Blacks in a Test that also opens the Bledisloe Cup series. Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium is the scene for a rare midweek clash between the two trans-Tasman rivals, with the last such Test played nearly 30
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Bangladesh’s technical consultant Sridharan Sriram believes ‘impact’ in T20 cricket trumps everything else. Even performance. In his first press conference in Dhaka, Sriram – essentially brought on board for the T20I side – said that he believes a good performance can even be detrimental to a side, unless it has a direct influence on the
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9:14 PM ET ESPN News Services ST. LOUIS — Milwaukee Brewers opener Matt Bush exited after recording just one out because of right groin discomfort Tuesday night during an 8-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. Brewers manager Craig Counsell said Bush is day-to-day. Bush, who was starting a bullpen game for the Brewers with
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1:06 AM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Clayton Kershaw pitched seven dominant innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers won the National League West for the ninth time in 10 seasons, blanking the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-0 on Tuesday night. Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy and Joey Gallo homered as the Dodgers boosted the best record in the
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1:33 AM BST Describing him as the benchmark Test winger, Will Jordan knows he will have his hands full trying to contain Wallabies game-breaker Marika Koroibete in Thursday’s Bledisloe Cup encounter. The All Blacks winger will be in Koroibete’s firing line at Marvel Stadium with the Fijian flyer being up front this week about what
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11:09 PM ET ESPN News Services An investigative report by Mississippi Today revealed Tuesday that former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant helped former NFL quarterback Brett Favre obtain welfare funds in order to help build a new volleyball center at the University of Southern Mississippi. The news organization reviewed text messages from 2017 and 2019 that
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9:29 PM ET ESPN News Services CLEVELAND — Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout‘s streak of consecutive games hitting a home run ended at seven, one shy of the major league record, and the AL Central-leading Cleveland Guardians beat Los Angeles 3-1 on Tuesday night. Trout went 0-for-3 with three routine flyballs and a walk.
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10:15 PM ET ESPN News Services MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins came two outs shy of no-hitting the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night, as reliever Jovani Moran allowed a line-drive double by Bobby Witt Jr. to break up the bid in the team’s 6-3 win. Joe Ryan started for Minnesota and pitched a gem,
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9:56 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs of the season on Tuesday night against the Boston Red Sox. Judge, playing in New York’s 142nd game, is four from tying the American League record Roger Maris set with the Yankees in
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5:25 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots placed veteran running back Ty Montgomery, who had been limited because of a right knee injury, on injured reserve Tuesday. This move means Montgomery will miss at least four games. Montgomery had injured his right knee in the team’s preseason finale on Aug. 26 and
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