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When a team falls behind in an NLDS, that’s usually when an ace gets the call. The Atlanta Braves, however, are playing a completely different gamble. After dropping Game 1 to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta is once again turning to its bullpen in Game 2, leaving Chris Sale on the sidelines despite his 2.16 […] The post “We’re in a Tough Situation”: Braves Manager Says He Has ‘Zero Regret’ After Snubbing Chris Sale Against Dodgers appeared first on EssentiallySports.

Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward had already absorbed another tough loss on the field Sunday. By the time he reached the podium for his postgame press conference, his patience for waiting around had run out, too. Nashville sports radio host Jared Stillman flagged the moment after it was caught on the Titans’ own locker room […] The post “We Got 3 Minutes Left”: Cam Ward Threatens to Walk Out on Reporters as Titans QB Struggles in Loss to Ravens appeared first on EssentiallySports.

Coming third in the World Cup was really not a disaster, and Saturday’s rout of Croatia and building the team around Jude Bellingham are good signsMove fast and fix things. It has been a fine week so far for Thomas Tuchel as he attempts the cyclical task of soldering together not just an England team, but a way of looking like one, all the while being battered by the to-and-fro conflicting winds of England managerdom.There is nothing new here. This is a job that involves not just picking the right players and making high-stakes calculations over your second-half substitutions, but carrying out these basic duties while wrestling with aggrieved members of the Thuggee cult on a collapsing rope bridge outside the Temple of Doom, and simultaneously having your heart ripped out. Continue reading...

Wales crave momentum but, a few days after surely the sweetest high of Craig Bellamy’s two-year reign, a sapping international window ended on a bum note. At least until Bellamy was informed Portugal’s comeback victory over Norway means Wales will spend the next six weeks in third, and not bottom of Nations League A4 owing to their superior head-to-record. “That’s actually quite nice,” the Wales head coach said, slowly digesting the silver lining about half an hour after the final whistle. “That’s brightened up a real rubbish moment.”Bellamy suggested last Thursday’s victory over Norway blew the group wide open with a hand grenade but Danny Ward detonated one to give Denmark a second-half penalty and Rasmus Højlund’s flawless spot-kick ultimately proved the difference. The galling thing for Ward was that until his moment of madness, he had kept his country in the game, his best stop a sublime right-hand save to deny Gustav Isaksen. A first clean sheet since beating Liechtenstein last November also went out of the window for Wales. The life of a goalkeeper, eh? Continue reading...