6:45 PM ET LONDON — Amid the £220 million worth of summer signings who started for Chelsea, it was their old reliable supporting cast who steered them to the top of the Premier League. Olivier Giroud and Kurt Zouma‘s goals either side of half-time and a late Christian Pulisic tap-in earnt them a 3-1 victory
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1:46 AM ET ESPN’s panel of Ariel Helwani, Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim breaks down the biggest stories coming out of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night, including Marvin Vettori‘s thrilling unanimous-decision win over Jack Hermansson, and whether the type of violent slam Jordan Leavitt executed to beat Matt Wiman should remain legal. Marvin Vettori
1:22 AM ET Marvin Vettori has had an extremely unlucky year. But the UFC middleweight contender will finish a trying 2020 with a fortunate break and the biggest victory of his career. Vettori defeated Jack Hermansson via unanimous decision (49-46, 49-46, 49-45) in the entertaining, back-and-forth main event of UFC Fight Night on Saturday in
2:04 AM ET Errol Spence Jr. is back. He was aggressive and effective in his unanimous decision win over Danny Garcia on Saturday — erasing all questions that lingered about how he would respond in his first fight since his car accident in October 2019. “I was smiling because it was a long, long road
10:24 PM ET Ohio State might have made a definitive statement in its 52-12 win over Michigan State, but the College Football Playoff contenders get enough pub during the week. How about some love for Coastal Carolina and BYU, who might have played the best game of the season despite scheduling their matchup on the
1:30 AM ET Errol Spence Jr. returned to boxing on Saturday night, 14 months after he was ejected from his Ferrari in a horrific one-car crash. The biggest question was how the unified welterweight champion would look in his title defense against Danny Garcia. The answer: smooth and strong, per usual. Spence claimed a unanimous-decision
12:13 AM ET It has been hard to find silver linings in 2020, a year when little has felt normal and too many of the things we love have been kept at a distance. But Saturday gave us something we wouldn’t have gotten in any other season. Four days ago, there was no plan to
11:57 PM ET Chris Low Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Beamer Ball is coming to South Carolina. Shane Beamer, Oklahoma‘s
1:06 AM ET No. 1 Alabama won the SEC West and clinched a spot in the conference championship game by beating LSU 55-17 on Saturday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Alabama will play SEC East champ No. 6 Florida in Atlanta on Dec. 19. After the win on Saturday night, Alabama coach Nick Saban said he
1:08 AM ET Iowa State and Oklahoma will meet in the Big 12 championship game after each team clinched a berth on Saturday. The No. 9 Cyclones (8-1) will be making their first Big 12 title game appearance in program history. They will also finish in sole possession of first place in the conference’s regular-season
12:46 AM ET Miami quarterback D’Eriq King said after a 48-0 victory over Duke on Saturday night that he was one of the Hurricanes players who contracted COVID-19 during the program shutdown. King became infected by the virus several weeks ago, and was able to return to practice this week to play against the Blue
11:57 PM ET South Carolina is expected to hire Oklahoma assistant head coach/tight ends coach Shane Beamer as its new head coach, sources told ESPN. Beamer, 43, is the son of former Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer. An announcement at South Carolina could come as early as Monday, the sources said. It would be
9:01 PM ET Indiana improved to 6-1 on the season with a 14-6 win over No. 16 Wisconsin on the road in the Hoosiers’ first game since starting quarterback Michael Penix Jr. tore his ACL last week against Maryland. Redshirt sophomore quarterback Jack Tuttle played in Penix’s place, going 13-of-22 passing for 130 yards and
11:23 PM ET Nearly all of our writers’ rankings are the same after college football’s elite flexed their muscles this week. How will Saturday’s top games affect the College Football Playoff chase? What are the current odds for the top four? The Allstate Playoff Predictor has the answers. Check back every week as the odds
10:25 PM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — Nahziah Carter left the Washington basketball program this week after being suspended by the university following investigation of two sexual assault allegations against him. Carter announced Friday he was leaving Washington to begin his professional career. Carter, who was expected to be the Huskies’ top player this season,
2:22 PM GMT Fiji’s powerhouse wing Nemani Nadolo marked his return to international rugby with a hat-trick of tries as they celebrated a late entrance into the Nations Cup with an emphatic 38-24 victory over Georgia at a wet Murrayfield on Saturday. Fiji forfeited their three pool matches due to coronavirus cases in their squad
6:28 PM ET After more than a year away from the ring, unified welterweight world titlist Errol Spence Jr. returns to defend his WBC and IBF belts against Danny Garcia on Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Spence (26-0, 21 KOs) defeated Shawn Porter in September 2019 and as talks were heating up for
9:25 PM ET Associated Press CONWAY, S.C. — Mateo Sudipo stopped BYU’s Dax Milne at the 1-yard line as time expired and No. 14 Coastal Carolina beat the eighth-ranked Cougars 22-17 in short-notice showdown of 9-0 teams Saturday night. The Cougars (9-1, No. 13 CFP) were a late-week fill-in, traveling more than 2,200 miles to