11:18 PM ET ESPN News Services With one swing of the bat, Mike Brosseau put the Tampa Bay Rays into the AL Championship Series on Friday night. But he insisted afterward that the home run off Aroldis Chapman was especially sweet because of where it put the Rays — and not what it did to
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10:01 AM BST World champions South Africa will decide next week whether they travel to Australia next month to take part in the Rugby Championship amid uncertainty over coronavirus travel restrictions and concern about the team’s readiness. Rugby South Africa said on Saturday “several hurdles needed to be cleared if it is to be confirmed”
12:40 PM ET The October international break is more congested than usual, as the soccer world adjusts to a compressed schedule by squeezing as many as three games into an eight-day sprint before players disperse and return to their clubs. There are travel concerns for all international teams as various players pull out of duty
7:25 AM ET LeBron James has lived through many NBA Finals games in which he’s played great and lost. It’s one of the stories of his career. But the Game 5 duel James staged with Jimmy Butler in the Miami Heat‘s season-saving 111-108 victory Friday over the Los Angeles Lakers instantly goes in the pantheon
Britain’s Alex Dowsett claimed a solo victory in the eighth stage of the Giro d’Italia with Matthew Holmes third. The 32-year-old Israel Start-Up Nation rider was part of a six-man breakaway allowed to go free on the 200km run from Giovinazzo to Vieste. There was no change in the general classification, Joao Almeida retaining his
Valtteri Bottas took pole position for the Eifel Grand Prix in a fight with Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Bottas grabbed top spot with his final lap to take pole by 0.256 seconds after Verstappen set the pace on the first runs in final qualifying. It was the closest Mercedes have
2:57 PM GMT Danyal Rasool Balochistan beat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by six wickets In a clash close to the top of the table, Balochistan avenged their crushing defeat against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last week by inflicting a similar loss on Mohammad Rizwan‘s side. Awais Zia‘s unbeaten 49-ball 92 helped Balochistan make short work of the 155-run target,
Watch as Italy’s Eva Lechner and Australia’s Rebecca McConnell battle it out in a ‘monster’ sprint for the silver medal in the women’s cross country race at the Mountain Bike World Championships. WATCH MORE: Pidcock wins U23 cross country world title Watch live coverage of the Mountain Bike World Championships on the BBC Sport website,
8:53 AM GMT Learning the art of playing a perfect pull shot from the peerless Ricky Ponting is a dream that Shimron Hetmyer is living during his stint with the Delhi Capitals. The West Indies batsman showed glimpses of his destructive self during his 24-ball-45 knock against Rajasthan Royals on Friday. The first of his
Britain’s Simon Yates is out of the Giro d’Italia after testing positive for coronavirus. The Tirreno-Adriatico champion will not start Saturday’s eighth stage of the Grand Tour. Yates, 28, was tested after he “developed very mild symptoms” following Friday’s seventh stage, his Mitchelton-Scott team said. Team staff and riders have also received rapid tests and
3:03 AM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — With less than 10 seconds left and the Los Angeles Lakers trailing by one, LeBron James appeared to be putting the final touches on a 40-point masterpiece to clinch his fourth NBA title. Draped by seemingly the entire Miami Heat defense, James, who led the league in
12:56 AM ET Steve KimESPN Emanuel Navarrete knocked Ruben Villa down twice early on in their bout for the vacant WBO featherweight world title on Friday night, and that was enough to earn Navarrete a unanimous decision victory and the belt. It made Navarrete a two-division titlist, and set the stage for a number of
7:30 AM ET This weekend’s college football slate appeared to have a pretty strong tag: Red River Week. No matter what else was going on, you knew there would be at least one season-defining game on the docket. So much for that. Texas and Oklahoma are a combined 3-3, and neither is in the AP
12:47 AM ET Steve KimESPN Emanuel Navarrete defeated Ruben Villa by unanimous decision to win the vacant WBO featherweight title Friday night at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. Navarrete, a former junior featherweight world titlist, was able to win the fight on the strength of two knockdowns — in the first and
11:55 PM ET Brian Ortega‘s most-tenured coach won’t be able to corner him for a huge fight next week. Rener Gracie, the well-known Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach and member of the world-renowned Gracie family, tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and was unable to make the trip with Ortega to Abu Dhabi, Gracie announced Friday night
11:33 PM ET Goaltender Corey Crawford signed a two-year deal with the New Jersey Devils Friday night. The contract carries an average annual value of $3.9 million. The news comes just a day after the Chicago Blackhawks formally parted ways with Crawford, who had been Chicago’s starting goaltender since the 2010-11 season. Crawford, who was
11:00 PM ET MLB InsidersESPN It came down to a winner-take-all between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays to determine the last spot in the next round of the MLB playoffs, but the final four teams for the League Championship Series are officially set. Here are the stars, turning points and takeaways from
2:10 PM ET Two of the best grapplers in the UFC’s women’s strawweight division will meet in December. Top prospect Mackenzie Dern and former Invicta FC champion Virna Jandiroba have verbally agreed to fight each other at UFC 256 on Dec. 12, sources confirmed to ESPN. No location has been made official yet for that