7:00 AM ET Last Thursday, Cornell women’s hockey coach Doug Derraugh was preparing for Big Red’s NCAA quarterfinal game against Mercyhurst. The plan was to use the team meeting to discuss the penalty kill, and then get on the ice. But 15 minutes before the team meeting, Cornell’s associate athletic director Anita Brenner came to
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7:07 PM ET The UFC is still planning on holding its big show next month and headliner Khabib Nurmagomedov is fully on board with that plan. It’s just a matter of where it will take place. Nurmagomedov is scheduled to defend his lightweight title against Tony Ferguson in the main event of UFC 249 on
7:38 PM ET Although it comes as no surprise, Golden Boy Promotions on Tuesday canceled the April 25 boxing card because of the coronavirus pandemic. The show, due to include four world title fights and be headlined by former three-time light heavyweight world titlist Sergey Kovalev taking on former world title challenger Sullivan Barrera in
6:56 PM BST South Africa’s Pieter-Steph du Toit nearly lost his leg after rare complications from an injury he sustained last month playing for the Stormers, the Super Rugby side’s medical doctor has said. The reigning World Player of the Year was instrumental in helping the Springboks to their third Rugby World Cup title in
6:51 PM ET The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are expected to land quarterback Tom Brady barring any unforeseen circumstances, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Jeff Darlington. There’s no signing date or announcement officially set up, but Brady is expected to be a Buccaneer. Earlier Tuesday, Brady said goodbye to the New England Patriots in a
6:27 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Rangers outfielder Willie Calhoun is back in Texas and will be able to start light workouts soon in his recovery from a broken jaw. The Rangers said Tuesday that Calhoun was examined by Dr. Steven Wiener in Phoenix and cleared to travel before flying back on
6:05 PM ET Roger Mayweather, a two-time world champion who also found success as a trainer, died Tuesday after years of declining health and complications from diabetes. He was 58. He was part of one of boxing’s most famous families as the uncle of superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr., whom he trained for much of his
6:19 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — A former MMA fighter accused in two Texas slayings is one of two people charged in the death of a woman who was abducted from a Minnesota domestic violence shelter 11 years ago, authorities said Monday. Cedric Marks, 45, of Killeen, Texas, has been charged in Hennepin County
5:37 PM ET The PGA Championship, scheduled for TPC Harding Park in San Francisco from May 11-17, has joined the slew of sports-world postponements amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Throughout our evaluation process, we have been committed to following the guidance of public health authorities and given the coronavirus shelter-in-place order in effect in San Francisco,
3:15 PM ET Bitter rivals Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin will meet for a third time, but just not right away, sources have told ESPN. After weeks of arduous negotiations that nearly collapsed multiple times, a deal was finally completed under which Alvarez would face Billy Joe Saunders on May 2 with the stipulation that
4:09 PM ET Four Brooklyn Nets players have tested positive for the coronavirus, the team announced Tuesday. Of the four players, one is exhibiting symptoms. All four are isolated and are undergoing medical care from team physicians, the team said in a statement. The Nets did not identify which players have tested positive. The four
3:15 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR plans to reschedule the seven Cup Series races already postponed due to the the COVID-19 pandemic. Figuring out how to cram the events and the All-Star race into the crowded 36-race schedule could be difficult. NASCAR has already postponed its season until May 9 at Martinsville
4:21 PM ET Let the speculation begin — or continue. It has been only a few days since Augusta National announced it would be postponing the 2020 Masters because of the coronavirus pandemic. And the club is in the process of shutting down its operations this week. So how far the leaders of the Masters
Mar 17, 2020 Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions, following the guidelines announced by the British government and the British Boxing Board of Control, has followed other United Kingdom promoters and, as of Tuesday, postponed its upcoming events. “Queensberry Promotions feel it would be inappropriate to proceed with any forthcoming boxing promotions in front of live audiences
5:13 PM ET Dan Rafael Close ESPN Senior Writer 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA Today Steve Kim It was a hard deal to get done, but Canelo Alvarez has agreed to square off against middleweight titlist Gennadiy Golovkin for the
2:48 PM ET One day after his UFC main event was postponed along with two other fight cards because of the coronavirus pandemic, Leon Edwards said Tuesday that he’s hopeful his fight with former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley will be rebooked once the UFC resumes operations. “This fight’s not going nowhere,” Edwards told ESPN’s Ariel
12:19 PM ET Steve KimESPN While boxing events throughout the United States were being postponed and cancelled this past weekend amid the growing concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, one nationally televised card did take place this past Friday night at the Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota — the latest installment of “ShoBox”, which
2:19 PM ET Former Bellator MMA lightweight champion Michael Chandler, one of the company’s most recognizable faces of the past decade, intends to test free agency for the first time in his career this summer. Chandler (20-5) is scheduled to face former UFC champion Benson Henderson (28-8) at Bellator 244 on June 6, and has