8:00 AM ET Wow, some real, actual college football, and more games are on the way. But as we unveil our first ESPN Power Rankings of the 2020 regular season, it’s important to remember that we have a very small body of work so far. In fact, Memphis is the only team ranked that played
Month: September 2020
6:47 AM ET Three rounds down, two to go. The most unconventional Stanley Cup Playoffs ever continue on after three Game 7s were needed to finish the second round. The two Eastern Conference teams are now off to Edmonton for the remainder of the tournament, and the last team to punch their ticket was the
Cyclist Elinor Barker has said time spent weighing children at school after lockdown would be better used helping them find a sport they love. The Olympic gold medallist from Cardiff said she had seen athletes starve and dehydrate themselves the day before being weighed for competitions. Her comments came after the National Obesity Forum’s Tam
1:07 AM ET Throughout the course of this long season, the LA Clippers were darlings of sharp bettors and league intelligentsia, even as so many fans and even a healthy percentage of the Clippers’ peers sometimes wondered why. They encouraged injured players to take plenty of time to recover, harped on the long view as
1:18 AM ET Steve KimESPN Jamel Herring retained his WBO junior lightweight title by disqualification against Jonathan Oquendo on Saturday. The fight inside the Top Rank bubble at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas was stopped after the eighth round because of an intentional head-butt. Oquendo led with his head in the fifth
11:13 PM ET The New York Islanders are going to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in 27 years, snapping the NHL’s longest streak without a final four appearance. The Isles put on a clinic against the Flyers in Game 7 on Saturday, scoring two first-period goals en route to a 4-0 win.
1:33 AM ET Jamel Herring waited months and battled through COVID-19 to show he was ready for a major fight as a world titleholder. After his performance on Saturday night in a title defense against Jonathan Oquendo, that status is very much uncertain. Inside the Top Rank bubble at the MGM Grand Convention Center in
11:46 PM ET Alistair Overeem showed that he’s still a championship-level fighter on Saturday night. Overeem stopped up-and-comer Augusto Sakai early in the fifth round in the UFC Fight Night main event in Las Vegas. The win was the fourth in Overeem’s past five fights, keeping him in the hunt for the UFC heavyweight title
7:50 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Frances Tiafoe is the last American man in the US Open singles field — and he’s into the fourth round at Flushing Meadows for the first time. The 22-year-old who grew up in Maryland advanced Saturday by beating Marton Fucsovics of Hungary 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. “I’m
7:15 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Dustin Johnson went the last three hours over 13 holes without hitting from the fairway and still manged to hang on to the lead Saturday after two rounds at the Tour Championship. Johnson could at least see his entire golf ball from the first cut on the par-5
11:16 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff Trinbago Knight Riders v St Kitts and Patriots, Tarouba Our XI: Lendl Simmons, Evin Lewis (capt), Kieron Pollard (vice-captain), Ben Dunk, Dwayne Bravo, Tim Siefert, Jon Russ Jaggesar, Sohail Tanvir, Fawad Ahmed, Rayad Emrit, Kharry Pierre NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about late injury
11:57 PM ET Second-half substitutes Alberth Elis and Mauro Manotas rallied Houston to a 2-1 win against Sporting Kansas City on Saturday at BBVA Stadium to extend the Dynamo’s unbeaten streak to five games. Manotas entered in the 80th minute and scored the winner five minutes later on a header from 12 yards off a
6:09 PM ET Steve KimESPN Despite suffering two cuts near his left eye, Steven Nelson dominated De’Andre Ware in a sixth-round TKO victory on the Jamel Herring-Jonathan Oquendo undercard at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas on Saturday. Nelson slowly built up momentum in the early rounds, walking down Ware and then closing
5:56 PM ET The UFC’s card this weekend has been gutted by COVID-19. Two fights were canceled and one fighter was taken off the event Saturday just hours before the start of the show for coronavirus-related reasons, UFC officials announced. The changes have left UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai with just seven fights, the
11:15 PM ET Alistair Overeem showed a wrinkle in his game that most UFC fans haven’t seen, using his wrestling and vicious ground-and-pound to finish Augusto Sakai by TKO in the fifth round Saturday in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. The finish came at 26 seconds of the final round.
4:29 PM ET Associated Press DARLINGTON, S.C. — Brandon Jones played it out in his mind over and over as he drove behind leaders Denny Hamlin and Ross Chastain. When the moment arrived, Jones was ready to pounce. Jones swept past leaders Chastain and Hamlin two laps from the end to win the Xfinity Series
6:56 PM ET Free-agent defensive end Jadeveon Clowney is expected to sign with the Tennessee Titans, sources told ESPN’s Dianna Russini. Clowney reunites with Titans head coach Mike Vrabel, who served as his position coach and defensive coordinator when the two were with the Houston Texans. The seventh-year veteran had his best season in 2017
8:45 PM ET Mike Trout hit his 300th career home run in the first game of a doubleheader against the Houston Astros on Saturday, surpassing Tim Salmon for the franchise record at just 29 years old. Trout, who entered the game with 201 career stolen bases, is the fastest to amass 300 home runs and
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