Month: September 2022

12:27 PM ET Jake Paul has found his next opponent — and it’s a combat sports luminary. The YouTuber-turned-prizefighter will meet former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva in a boxing match Oct. 29 in Phoenix, Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions announced Tuesday. The bout will be contested at 187 pounds over eight three-minute rounds. Silva, 47,
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11:06 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” More than 50% of minor league players have voted to support unionizing, paving the way for players to organize and join the Major League Baseball Players Association, the union announced Tuesday. In
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11:16 AM ET Former Kentucky and Baylor football coach Guy Morriss died Monday night at age 71. Morriss coached Kentucky in 2001 and 2002 and then spent the next five seasons leading Baylor, going 27-54 with the two universities. He later coached Division II Texas A&M-Commerce for four years. In 2016, Morriss was diagnosed with
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Sep 6, 2022 The International team has won just once in 13 Presidents Cup matches, and it figures to again be a sizable underdog when play begins at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, later this month. International team captain Trevor Immelman announced his six captain’s choices Tuesday: South Korea’s K.H. Lee and Si
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9:00 AM ET For the first time in what feels like a month-of-Sundays, we’re in position to excitedly look forward to the unfolding of a regular regular season, uninhibited and uninterrupted, as was routine pre-March 2020. (Fingers crossed, knock wood, salt over the shoulder and all that.) Along with allowing ourselves to cautiously exhale, we’re
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World track champion Ethan Hayter will chase another rainbow jersey when he spearheads Great Britain’s 26-strong team at this month’s Road World Championships in Wollongong, Australia. Hayter, who won world omnium gold last October, claimed last month’s Tour of Poland on the road and will contest the road race and the time trial. The 23-year-old
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