Month: November 2022

12:55 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Regis Prograis stopped Jose Zepeda in brutal fashion in Round 11 on Saturday in Carson, California, to capture the vacant WBC junior welterweight title. The 140-pound bout was a mostly tactical affair until Round 10, when Zepeda delivered a three-punch combination that stunned Prograis. The following round, Prograis (28-1, 24
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2:00 AM ET UFC star Conor McGregor is not currently in the promotion’s drug-testing pool and will likely need to be in the pool for six months before competing again, a spokesperson for USADA, the UFC’s anti-doping partner, told ESPN on Saturday. McGregor, the former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion, has been out of action
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2:02 AM ET SAN ANTONIO — Russell Westbrook had blood covering his face after taking a flagrant foul to his forehead when LeBron James intervened to pull the Los Angeles Lakers point guard away from the fray and cover the cut with a towel in the third quarter Saturday. It wasn’t the flashiest sequence the
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11:11 PM ET No. 9 Oregon senior linebacker DJ Johnson had a confrontation with an Oregon State fan on the field after Saturday’s loss, an incident that was captured on video. With fans on the field at Corvallis, Oregon, following No. 21 Oregon State’s 38-34 win, a video posted on social media shows Johnson walking
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12:39 AM ET ESPN News Services COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Riding a five-game winning streak and assured of playing in next week’s Southeastern Conference title game, No. 5 LSU just had to take care of underperforming Texas A&M to keep its College Football Playoff hopes alive. Instead, Devon Achane had a career-best 215 yards rushing
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1:37 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES, CA. — Caleb Williams has had better nights statistically. He’s scored more touchdowns, passed for more yards, and completed more passes in other contests. But on Saturday night against a stout Notre Dame defense in primetime, Williams showed why the story of his season requires a three-dimensional explanation.
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10:28 PM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Nick Saban wasn’t sure who had won or lost around the country after Alabama‘s 49-27 rout of Auburn on Saturday, but he is sure that his team at least deserves consideration for one of the four sports in the College Football Playoff. The Crimson Tide, who’ve been to every
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10:52 PM ET Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields, who is dealing with a separated left shoulder with partially torn ligaments, is not expected to play Sunday at the New York Jets, a source told ESPN. The Bears are expected to start Trevor Siemian at quarterback, and the team also promoted Nathan Peterman from the practice
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8:17 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Arizona State is finalizing a deal to make Oregon offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham the school’s next coach, sources told ESPN on Saturday. Dillingham is a 2012 graduate of Arizona State and a native of Arizona. He’s a former high school coach in the state and started his college career at
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6:40 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show John Ryder claimed the WBO world interim super middleweight title after Zach Parker was forced to pull out at the end of the fourth
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7:10 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Heavyweight Dillian Whyte earned a hard-fought, majority points win over American Jermaine Franklin on Saturday to help repair some of the damage to his
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