10:53 AM ET The fighters still went to the Islington Boxing Club in north London on Thursday night. They stood in a huddle, read the sign and looked at the padlock on the gym door: “GYM CLOSED.” It was a deathless message. The street lights lit up their little gathering and then they faded away,
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9:11 AM ET The coronavirus pandemic has brought the boxing world to a halt. Nearly all events worldwide are off through at least early May, and more cancellations and postponements are expected to be announced in the coming days. So for a year-round sport that never has an offseason, this is a first. During this
The punch came in the seventh round: a stinging uppercut from Joe Frazier to the jaw of Lennox Lewis. The former British world champion tried to regain his feet but stumbled back and was counted out by the referee. Smokin’ Joe raised his glove in victory as thousands of fans watching at home shared the
8:00 AM ET For the current generation of college basketball players, Kobe Bryant was an icon. They dreamed of one day playing the game the way he did. He inspired them. They idolized him. He was “The Mamba” and they wanted to emulate his work ethic. In some cases, he was also the motivation behind
The Tour de France is considering the option of going ahead without fans, says France’s sports minister. The race is due to run from 27 June to 19 July but is in doubt, with most major sports events off because of the coronavirus pandemic. “We have [imposed spectator bans] for other competitions before,” said Roxana
The US-based Haas team have named Brazilian Pietro Fittipaldi and Swiss Louis Deletraz as their official test and reserve drivers for this season. Fittipaldi, grandson of twice Formula 1 champion Emerson Fittipaldi, was test driver for Haas last season when racing in the German Touring Car series. Deletraz, who finished eighth in Formula 2 in
8:21 AM ET The golf world, like everything else in sports, is shut down. And like the rest of the world, the players are trying to find ways to fill their days. Some are productive. Some are a little out there. Some, well, some we just don’t have any idea what they are doing. This
7:00 AM ET Well, there are no flyovers, no cracks of the bat, no peanuts or Cracker Jack. But that doesn’t mean there can’t be Power Rankings. On what would have been Opening Day, we compile the votes of ESPN’s baseball reporters, writers and editors and unveil our rankings for all 30 teams, looking at
7:15 AM ET You hear a lot of numbers thrown around during NFL free agency, but they don’t always reflect reality. That five-year, $70 million deal you heard about might turn out to really be a three-year deal that the team can escape after just two. That doesn’t make it a bad deal, by any
7:15 AM ET This was supposed to be opening week, the time when MLB fans everywhere look forward to making a season’s worth of memories. Since we won’t have games to get excited about for a while, we thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane by reliving some of our
The McLaren staff quarantined in Melbourne as a result of a coronavirus case at the abandoned Australian Grand Prix are all back in the UK. Sixteen employees spent two weeks in self-isolation after one tested positive in the lead up to the race. McLaren said: “All team personnel who were in self-isolation in Melbourne have
7:08 AM GMT Players and staff living alone during long periods of isolation forced by the coronavirus pandemic will have their mental health closely watched by Cricket Australia. This comes in the wake of the national team coach Justin Langer balancing the personal benefits of extended time at home with the maelstrom engulfing global sport
7:20 AM ET The National Hockey League needs to cancel its remaining regular-season games. It brings me no pleasure to put this out there. We all want to see this season to its equitable completion; if there is a postseason, to have the previous five-and-a-half months boiled down to the points percentage variance between teams,
7:26 PM ET Associated Press Churchill Downs has suspended the final three racing dates at Turfway Park following Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s “Healthy at Home” executive order out of concern for the COVID-19 pandemic. The Florence, Kentucky, track’s winter meet was scheduled to end Saturday. Turfway’s backside area will remain open because it falls under
6:46 PM BST Italy flanker Maxime Mbanda has volunteered as an emergency ambulance driver in a bid to help those affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Mbanda, 27, volunteered as a driver in Parma and also joined others in Emilia-Romagna wearing a mask and protective suit. “The situation as we all can see is of full
7:48 AM ET Khabib Nurmagomedov said Ramadan is a time to pray and to spend time with his family, and while he will do some training, it’s not on the same level as when he’s preparing for a fight. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images If Dana White seems obsessed with not postponing UFC 249, consider that a delay
6:15 PM ET The women’s undisputed junior middleweight world title fight between Claressa Shields and Marie-Eve Dicaire has been postponed, as expected, due to the coronavirus pandemic, Salita Promotions announced Wednesday. Shields’ two world titles, Dicaire’s one, and a vacant title were all to be on the line on May 9 in the main event
6:30 PM ET The ticketing giant StubHub has begun furloughing employees, making it the first major ticketing company to publicly admit to significant cost-cutting moves in the wake of financial damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Following the postponement or cancellation of hundreds of sporting events — including 448 NBA and NHL games, along with