Month: May 2020

7:12 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Years ago, UFC events were not just numbered, but also titled. The promotion doesn’t do that anymore, but if the practice were still in place, Saturday’s fight card in Jacksonville, Florida — the promotion’s first since March 14 — might be called UFC 249: The Return of Fighting. The story
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9:46 AM ET The NHL has postponed its international games in 2020, the league and players’ union announced on Friday. “The NHLPA and the NHL remain committed to maintaining and growing our international presence,” the sides said in a joint statement. “We hope that our fans overseas understand the need to postpone the 2020 games,
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9:35 AM ET The main event of the UFC’s first card in nearly two months is now official. Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje both made weight Friday morning in Jacksonville, Florida, for their UFC 249 interim lightweight title bout. Both fighters weighed in at 155 pounds. The card is scheduled for Saturday night in front
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8:05 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1984, the Minnesota Twins‘ Kirby Puckett got four hits in his major league debut. That tied an American
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8:22 AM ET Associated Press Rafael Nadal says Novak Djokovic will need to be vaccinated to keep playing if tennis bodies make coronavirus shots obligatory once they become available. Nadal tells Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia this week that Djokovic and all players will have to follow the rules when tennis eventually returns to
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8:47 AM ET Canada’s Vasek Pospisil has hit back at Nick Kyrgios for opposing the proposal to merge the men’s ATP and women’s WTA tennis tours, saying the Australian did not have enough information to comment on the matter. Roger Federer called for a merger between the two governing bodies last month, with both ATP
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By Nick ParrottBBC Sport Last updated on 23 minutes ago23 minutes ago.From the section Cycling Britain’s Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas will travel to France on Monday to increase his training for this year’s event. Welshman Thomas, 33, was champion in 2018 and then runner-up to team-mate Egan Bernal last year for Team Ineos.
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