2:16 PM ET Anthony Smith has gotten the call again. For the second time this year, the UFC light heavyweight contender has been tabbed on short notice to be in the main event of a UFC Fight Night card. On Friday, the UFC lost its headliner for Saturday’s event, a heavyweight bout between Curtis Blaydes
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Nov 26, 2020 Chelsea have been one of the Premier League’s form teams in recent weeks, but they’ve yet to carve out a consistent style or identity under Lampard. Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images Thanks to a 2019 transfer ban, Chelsea had spent an uncharacteristically low amount on new players of late. Owner Roman Abramovich
1:16 PM GMT Fly-half Billy Burns has been handed a first start for Ireland as they take on Georgia in their final Autumn Nations Cup Group A clash in Dublin on Sunday, while uncapped centre Shane Daly has been included on the bench. Burns, 26, has two appearances as a replacement after making his debut
5:11 PM ET Atlanta Falcons running back Todd Gurley has been ruled out of Sunday’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders with an unspecified knee injury after he was unable to practice all week, coach Raheem Morris said. Wide receiver Julio Jones, meanwhile, is listed as questionable with a nagging hamstring injury. He did not
6:15 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Coming off a bye week, the San Francisco 49ers had hoped they would be closer to resembling a healthy team in time for Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Rams. Instead, the Niners are perhaps more short-handed than ever. First, the good news. Wide receiver Deebo Samuel will
3:40 PM ET Associated Press UNCASVILLE, Conn. — San Francisco shocked No. 4 Virginia on Friday, scoring the biggest upset of the young college basketball season and the program’s biggest win in decades. Jamaree Bouyea scored 19 points, and the Dons used a late 8-0 run to beat the Cavaliers 61-60 in the Homelight Classic,
2:30 PM ET Charles Barkley has insisted his golf game has gotten better. We’re about to find out as he teams with Phil Mickelson in a match against Steph Curry and Peyton Manning at Stone Canyon in Arizona. The Match: Champions for Change will benefit historically Black colleges and universities. play 0:38 Peyton Manning doesn’t
3:00 PM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Fourth-year Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky will return to the starting lineup when Chicago (5-5) faces the Green Bay Packers (7-3) on Sunday night, head coach Matt Nagy announced Friday. “Right now, we’re excited. Mitch is ready,” Nagy said. “This is an opportunity for him.” Veteran Nick Foles, who
3:53 PM ET Ohio State football coach Ryan Day has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not travel with the No. 3 Buckeyes for Saturday’s game against Illinois, the school said in a statement. The university said Day is just “one of the individuals” with in the program that has tested positive for the coronavirus,
4:45 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN As the NBA continues to move toward starting its 2020-21 season on Dec. 22, a slate of 49 preseason games will be played from Dec. 11 through Dec. 19 to allow teams to prepare for the upcoming campaign. Each NBA team will play at least two preseason games — one
9:23 PM GMT Jonny Bairstow insists he doesn’t mind where he bats for England, as long as he has a role in the team. Bairstow hit an unbeaten 86 from 48 balls – his highest score in T20I cricket – to carry England to a narrow victory with four balls of the game remaining in
2:50 PM ET The COVID-19 outbreak in Baltimore has led the NFL to postpone the Baltimore Ravens–Pittsburgh Steelers game for a second time. The Ravens will now play at the undefeated Steelers on Tuesday night, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. This is the third time in the Super Bowl era that an NFL game
10:53 AM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN Buffalo Bills offensive lineman Cody Ford will miss the remainder of the season, the team announced Friday, after he suffered a knee injury in practice. A league source confirmed Ford tore his meniscus, which was first reported by NFL Network. Ford has started in 22 of his 23 career games
2:37 PM ET Sarah Fuller is poised to become the first female to play in a Power 5 football game when Vanderbilt plays at Missouri in an SEC contest Saturday. A Vanderbilt official confirmed that Fuller made the trip to Missouri and will be dressed out for the game. If she sees action Saturday, Fuller
12:56 PM ET Associated Press Three funeral workers have been fired for posing for photos alongside the body of footballer Diego Maradona shortly before his funeral. The images distributed across social media created outrage, even death threats, across a nation that venerated Maradona, who died Wednesday of a heart attack at age 60. Tens of
1:20 PM ET PARIS — The champion jockey of British horse racing was banned from riding for three months on Friday following a positive test for cocaine. The punishment was handed down by France Galop, four months after Oisin Murphy returned a positive test for metabolites of the drug in a test undertaken at Chantilly.
9:43 AM ET Associated Press The PGA Tour has acquired minority stake in the European Tour’s media production company as part of an alliance that could be the start of a global golf schedule. The alliance announced Friday allows the PGA Tour and European Tour to collaborate on commercial opportunities, global media rights in certain
12:40 PM ET Philadelphia Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson announced Friday that his season is over as he awaits ankle surgery. “It’s like the inside of my ankle is collapsed,” Johnson said, “so a lot of my power and my push-off that I normally have isn’t there.” Johnson said a stress fracture was forming from