Month: October 2021

1:01 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The IBF middleweight title eliminator between Esquiva Falcao and Patrice Volny will serve as chief support for the Terence Crawford-Shawn Porter welterweight title bout Nov. 20 on ESPN+ pay-per-view, sources tell ESPN. Janibek Alimkhanuly, ESPN’s No. 8 middleweight, will fight former titleholder Hassan N’Dam in another undercard bout in Las
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News ICC promise ‘thorough investigation’ after disturbances outside Dubai Stadium The ICC have asked the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) to “undertake a thorough investigation” following crowd trouble caused by “thousands of ticketless fans” at Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Super 12s game in the men’s T20 World Cup in Dubai. The sides’ previous World Cup meeting, at
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1:20 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The Buccaneers may get a few key players back Sunday when they travel to New Orleans to face the New Orleans Saints, but they won’t have wide receiver Antonio Brown, who was again ruled out Friday by coach Bruce Arians. Brown is suffering from an ankle injury and did
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3:16 PM ET One of the knocks on Jake Paul has been that he has not fought a “real boxer.” That criticism will be mostly addressed at the end of this year. Paul, the YouTube-star-turned-prizefighter, will fight fellow undefeated boxer Tommy Fury on Dec. 18 in Tampa, Florida, it was officially announced Friday. The bout
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2:39 PM ET Chicago Bulls forward Patrick Williams will undergo surgery to repair a dislocated left wrist and is expected to miss the rest of the regular season, sources told ESPN. Williams tumbled out of the air on a flagrant foul by New York’s Mitchell Robinson on Thursday night, landing on his left wrist and
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2:57 PM ET Associated Press Top-seeded Simona Halep cruised into the semifinals of the Transylvania Open on Friday, but U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu lost to a fellow teenager in less than an hour. The third-seeded Raducanu lost 6-2, 6-1 to 19-year-old Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine after struggling with her serve throughout the match. Raducanu
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1:39 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Packers keep winning games and losing players. They did both again Thursday, when they beat the Arizona Cardinals yet lost tight end Robert Tonyan and running back/kick returner Kylin Hill. Tonyan’s agent, Jack Bechta, tweeted Friday that his client suffered a clean tear of the ACL in
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2:15 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN BOSTON — Celtics star Jaylen Brown said he’s still feeling the after-effects of COVID-19, saying that at times he feels like he’s played three games in one. “I think so,” Brown said after Boston’s practice Friday, when asked if he’s still recovering from his positive diagnosis earlier this month. “I’ve
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12:15 PM ET The NHL will not discipline Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff with respect to the Chicago Blackhawks‘ handling of sexual assault allegations against former video coach Brad Aldrich in 2010. Following an in-person meeting between Cheveldayoff and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Friday, the league released a statement saying it has “concluded
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12:50 PM ET BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland quarterback Baker Mayfield will start Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski announced Friday. Mayfield sat out last week’s game against the Denver Broncos after aggravating a torn labrum injury to his non-throwing shoulder he suffered in Week 2. But after a game off, Mayfield said
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1:14 PM ET Marshall has agreed to join the Sun Belt Conference, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday, as the Thundering Herd become the third Conference USA to make the jump in the past week. No timeline has been set, but Southern Miss and Old Dominion — the two other schools moving over from Conference
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12:01 PM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN MIAMI — Dolphins coach Brian Flores addressed speculation Friday that the team is in the market to trade for Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, once again declaring the Dolphins’ commitment to Tua Tagovailoa. “I think I’ve said this multiple times, ‘Tua is our quarterback,'” Flores said. “I don’t get into
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10:57 AM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Georgia Tech senior guard Bubba Parham will miss the start of the season following knee surgery. Georgia Tech announced Thursday Parham had surgery on Tuesday to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. He will miss an indefinite period of time. Parham started 14 games last season
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8:00 AM ET Golf icon Greg Norman will put his successful business enterprise aside to become the commissioner of a long-rumored and discussed golf league that hopes to begin play in 2022, and he is seeking to sign players to lucrative guaranteed deals with big-money purses. Norman, 66, announced his association with Liv Golf Enterprises,
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10:19 AM ET Michigan may be a state divided this week, but local bettors are leaning green on what is expected to be one of the most heavily bet college football games of the season nationwide. No. 6 Michigan is a 4-point favorite over No. 8 Michigan State for Saturday’s showdown in East Lansing between
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