2:05 AM ET Jingnan Xiong nearly finished Angela Lee several times in a dominant first round and then did enough the rest of the way to earn a unanimous-decision victory Saturday in the main event of a ONE Championship card in Singapore. With the victory, Xiong retained her ONE women’s 125-pound title and went to
Month: October 2022
9:45 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Boston College‘s offensive line, one of the most snakebit position groups in college football, is enduring another setback. Starting left guard Finn Dirstine has been ruled out against Louisville on Saturday with an upper-body injury. Boston College will be down three players who were expected starters on the offensive line
9:20 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Purdue‘s Aidan O’Connell, one of the top quarterbacks in college football, has returned to action against Minnesota on Saturday after missing last week’s game with an upper-body injury, sources told ESPN. O’Connell, who was listed as a game-time decision for Saturday’s game, got the start. He missed last week’s game
10:12 AM ET South Carolina hosts one of college football’s biggest matchups in Week 5, as the No. 10 NC State Wolfpack will face the No. 5 Clemson Tigers (7:30 pm ET on ABC). It is the first time the schools will meet as AP top-10 teams. NC State has momentum entering the interstate battle.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took pole position after a gripping qualifying at the Singapore Grand Prix as Max Verstappen finished only eighth. Red Bull’s Verstappen appeared to have the pace to take pole but abandoned his penultimate lap after an error and then was told urgently to pit before finishing his final one. He swore over
9:40 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN No. 3 Ohio State will be without star wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba against Rutgers on Saturday, sources told ESPN. Smith-Njigba has been dealing with a lingering hamstring issue, and the Buckeyes’ staff has been treating the injury with an abundance of caution to make sure he’s healthy for the finishing
9:38 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers continues to ramp up his recovery from a shoulder injury with the notion of returning for next week’s game against rival Oklahoma, sources told ESPN. Ewers has dressed for the Longhorns’ past two games but is not expected to play against West Virginia on Saturday, sources
7:15 AM ET Before they take the field as college football players on Saturdays, some of the top recruits in the 2023 ESPN 300 are playing underneath the lights on weeknights. Arch Manning added to the Manning family record book on Friday during Isidore Newman School (Louisiana)’s 52-22 victory over Pearl River High School. The
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says he is “absolutely confident” his team did not breach Formula 1’s budget cap in 2021. Ferrari and Mercedes say it is an “open secret” that two teams breached the limit to one degree or another, and it is widely claimed in the paddock within F1 that they are
6:00 AM ET NFL Nation reporters Less than 2% of college football players are drafted into the NFL. And not all of those who are drafted will make a roster. So the odds of just playing in the league are small, let alone scoring a touchdown in one’s first few games. Washington Commanders rookie wide
7:51 AM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN SAITAMA, Japan — The Golden State Warriors‘ decision to hold Klay Thompson out of the team’s two preseason games in Tokyo didn’t come as a surprise for the shooting guard. According to Thompson, the Warriors’ training staff informed him last week that it was unlikely he’d be able to play
7:30 AM ET IN HIS EIGHT seasons in the big leagues, New York Mets outfielder Terrance Gore has never hit a home run. He has just one career RBI. But he does lead baseball in one very important category: World Series rings. With three, Gore is tied with Madison Bumgarner for the most rings among
3:38 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN PASADENA, CA. — For UCLA head coach Chip Kelly and quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson, it felt like a night five years in the making. Or as Thompson-Robinson noted postgame, it was a performance to, at the very least, quiet the noise he’d been hearing the past week. “I’m reading through all
Toss Sri Lanka chose to bowl vs India Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu won the toss and opted to field in their first Women’s T20 Asia Cup game, against India, at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. Jemimah Rodrigues, who returned to India’s squad after missing the England tour because of a wrist injury, slotted straight
10:44 PM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. NEW YORK — Zack Britton‘s aspirations to be part of the Yankees‘ postseason roster might have taken yet another hit Friday night. The veteran lefty reliever, who returned last week from Tommy John surgery, was removed from New York’s
12:19 AM ET Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ducks defenseman Urho Vaakanainen was taken off the Honda Center ice on a stretcher after he crashed into the end boards in the first period of Anaheim’s preseason game against the San Jose Sharks on Friday night. The Finnish defenseman was conscious and alert with full movement
11:31 PM ET Antonio Inoki, a combat sports trailblazer, influential politician and larger-than-life figure in his native Japan, died Friday at the age of 79. The announcement was made by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, the promotion he founded. The cause of Inoki’s death was not released, but he had fallen ill in recent years and was
2:11 AM ET Associated Press BALTIMORE — Orioles chairman John Angelos said in a memo to team staff members that he looks forward to signing a new lease committing the team to remaining in Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun obtained the Sept. 1 memorandum, and the Orioles on Friday night confirmed the accuracy of the paper’s