Month: April 2023

3:57 PM ET Middleweight super prospect Bo Nickal has booked his next assignment in the UFC. Nickal (4-0) will face Tresean Gore at UFC 290 on July 8 in Las Vegas. Nickal announced the fight with one of his sponsors, betr. Gore has also referenced the matchup on social media. A three-time NCAA Division I
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5:29 PM ET The UFC is targeting a featherweight title unification bout for its annual International Fight Week in Las Vegas. According to multiple sources, featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and interim champion Yair Rodriguez have verbally agreed to square off at UFC 290 on July 8. Contracts have not been issued or signed. The 145-pound
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6:34 PM ET MIAMI — A heavyweight bout has been removed from the UFC’s prelim card Saturday. Chase Sherman has a medical issue and is out of a scheduled matchup with Karl Williams at UFC 287 here at Kaseya Center, the UFC announced at the start of the broadcast. Editor’s Picks Sherman (16-11) has dropped
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11:22 PM ET Robbie Lawler‘s UFC welterweight title defense against Rory MacDonald in July 2015 is widely considered one of the best fights in mixed martial arts history. The UFC will honor it as such when it inducts the bout into its Hall of Fame this summer. The UFC announced Saturday the 170-pound title bout,
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7:15 AM ET Mychal Denzel Smith THE EXACT NUMBER of punches that Emile Griffith landed on March 24, 1962, at Madison Square Garden, in the flurry that killed Benny “Kid” Paret, is in dispute. According to which expert you ask, it was anywhere between 17 and 29 clean shots, mostly uppercuts with a few hooks
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6:36 AM ET A golf ball Tiger Woods gave to a young fan during the final round of his victorious 1997 Masters tournament has sold for $64,124, auction house Golden Age Auctions said on Sunday. Woods bogeyed the fifth hole and handed the ball to Julian Nexsen, who was nine-years-old at the time. Bidding for
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6:15 AM ET EVERY SO OFTEN, North Dakota State offensive tackle Cody Mauch will hear from Kendrick Lenzen, his childhood friend and former grade school teammate, via FaceTime. “He’ll be like, ‘Hey, give me a smile,'” Mauch said. “It’s like he’s admiring his work.” Lenzen is responsible for what might become the most recognizable gap-tooth
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11:19 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — Nelson Cruz isn’t eager to talk about his age. The slugger just wants to produce whenever he’s in the lineup, and he is proving he still belongs in the major leagues. Cruz hit a three-run homer and drove in six runs, and the San Diego Padres beat
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