MS Dhoni frustrated Shoaib Akhtar with his maiden Test hundred in Faislabad.© AFP MS Dhoni, during his long international career, played some memorable knocks, frustrating several bowlers on his way to scoring big hundreds. MS Dhoni is widely regarded as a white-ball specialist but during early phase of his career, he played one of his best Test
Five teams – half the grid – have said they intend to appeal against the decision to punish Racing Point for illegally copying Mercedes parts. Racing Point were docked 15 points in the constructors’ championship and fined 400,000 euros (£360,000). However, the verdict allows them to continue running those parts. The five teams are Racing
India’s premier pacer Jhulan Goswami will be 39 by the time the postponed Women’s World Cup comes in 2022 but the leading wicket-taker in ODIs has not given up on competing in the mega event, saying she would try to stay in reckoning by performing consistently. The 2021 ODI World Cup in New Zealand in
6:25 PM ET Alex Kirkland Raphael Varane has taken responsibility for Real Madrid‘s Champions League exit after two mistakes from the defender saw them beaten 2-1 by Manchester City on Friday. World Cup winner Varane, 27, was caught out twice by Gabriel Jesus in the round of 16 second leg in Manchester — once in
7:00 AM ET The fish pounce on everything thrown at them, and Pete Alonso and friends haul in reds, snook and trout from this semi-secret spot off Tampa Bay like they’re grabbing M&M’s out of a bowl. A catch-and-release derby is suddenly on, and Alonso starts happily handing the rods to the interlopers on the
10:00 PM ET You didn’t really need to see a shot Tiger Woods hit a shot to know what kind of day he was having in the second round of the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park. You didn’t need to see his scorecard, either. You just had to see his face. The look of
12:22 PM ET UFC has booked a pair of flyweight championship fights for its UFC 255 pay-per-view event on Nov. 21, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Friday. Men’s flyweight champion Deiveson Figueiredo will take on former bantamweight champ Cody Garbrandt, and women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko will seek her fourth title defense against
11:11 PM ET The third time Jonathan Toews lifted the Stanley Cup for the Chicago Blackhawks was in 2015, which also marked the last time they advanced in the NHL postseason. That was until Friday night, when they shocked the Edmonton Oilers and won their qualifying-round series in four games. No. 12-seeded Chicago eliminated the
12:52 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Boston Celtics might have played their best game of the 2019-20 season Friday, beating the Toronto Raptors 122-100 in a result that was even more lopsided than the final score would indicate. But afterward, Celtics coach Brad Stevens wasn’t about to take any victory
12:15 AM ET A glance at the leaderboard at the 2020 PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park offers variety, from Brooks Koepka trying to make history to Li Haotong and Mike Lorenzo-Vera trying to stun everyone. Then there’s Tiger Woods, who had a miserable putting day Friday in San Francisco that had him fighting to
12:40 AM ET For a mixed martial arts fighter, there’s no better way to go into free agency than with a big knockout. And that’s exactly what Michael Chandler did. In the final fight on his Bellator contract, Chandler stopped former UFC champ Benson Henderson with a left-hand KO at 2:09 of the first round
9:16 PM ET Associated Press BROOKLYN, Mich. — Zane Smith scored the first Truck Series win of his career Friday night with a last-lap pass in double overtime at Michigan International Speedway. Grant Enfinger tried to win the race as the leader on four previous restarts but a slew of cautions spoiled his race. Enfinger
8:52 PM ET LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — With his team off to an 0-4 start in the NBA bubble and his daughter, Kaari Jaidyn, celebrating her first birthday hundreds of miles away, Memphis Grizzlies rookie standout Ja Morant called his parents with an admission Friday morning. “I wasn’t in a good mood at all,”
10:59 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Editor’s note: Pete Hamill, legendary newspaperman, journalist and novelist, died Wednesday at the age of 85. In the spring of 1991, as a favor to the then-Metropolitan editor of the New York Post, I got a call from Pete Hamill. I was 28, full of a none-too-subtle ambition, and just
8:54 PM ET Colorado State athletic director Joe Parker suspended all football-related activities indefinitely and asked school president Joyce McConnell to expand a recently announced investigation into the athletic department to include allegations of racism and verbal abuse in the football program. Parker said in a statement Friday that he decided to pause all football
8:17 PM ET Associated Press ROCKVILLE, Md. — Gabriela Ruffels rallied from a slow start in two more matches Friday, won them both and advanced to the quarterfinals in her bid to win back-to-back in the U.S. Women’s Amateur. Ruffels was trailing U.S. Girls Junior champion Lei Ye going to the ninth tee and turned
7:11 PM ET The Washington Football Team released running back Derrius Guice Friday night, less than two hours after he was arrested on domestic violence charges in Loudoun County. Washington wasted little time in releasing Guice, saying in a statement that it had learned of a domestic violence charge Thursday. The team alerted the league
9:00 AM ET Kevin Fiala was frustrated. The Minnesota Wild were trailing the Vancouver Canucks by two goals in Game 3 of their qualification-round series. The winger’s shot had missed its target, one of 10 wayward attempts for the game. As the whistle sounded to stop play, he buzzed Vancouver goalie Jacob Markstrom‘s crease, stuck