8:52 AM ET Steve Kim Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Three big fights are taking place Saturday, with each having title implications. Former light heavyweight champion Eleider Alvarez faces Joe Smith Jr.
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Britain’s Simon Yates signs a new two-year deal to stay with Mitchelton-Scott, the team with whom he won the 2018 Vuelta a Espana. The 28-year-old had been linked with a move away after a takeover bid for the team fell through earlier this year. “The journey with the team has been great so far. I’ve
5:31 PM ET The days run together now, one bleeding into the next and into the next, making it impossible to remember much of anything. The important details, those stick. Ohio State center Josh Myers remembers the message players received last Tuesday. Coach Ryan Day called a team meeting. Not a virtual meeting, mind you.
6:59 AM ET Fare thee well, Chicago Blackhawks. We’ll always have your qualification round upset of the Edmonton Oilers. Hence, the Vegas Golden Knights are the first team to advance to the conference semifinals. Four other teams have a chance to join them on Wednesday, with the Tampa Bay Lightning, Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche and
5:31 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona have appointed Ronald Koeman as the club’s new coach on a two-year deal following the dismissal of Quique Setien on Monday. Koeman, 57, leaves his role as Netherlands boss to take over at Camp Nou. His contract includes a break clause at the end of the first
3:49 PM IST Kugandrie Govender, Cricket South Africa’s chief commercial officer, has been appointed acting CEO following Dr Jacques Faul’s resignation this week. Govender is the first woman to take on the role of heading the game’s governing body in South Africa. No term limit has been set on Govender’s role as CSA continues to
Chris Froome has been left out of Team Ineos’ Tour de France squad. There had been some doubt four-time winner Froome had the form to make the squad following injuries from a crash a year ago. Geraint Thomas, who won in 2018, also misses out, with the team focusing on last year’s winner Egan Bernal
12:08 AM BST ESPN staff The British & Irish Lions tour of South Africa could be postponed to 2022 if the coronavirus pandemic continues to halt travel, South African Rugby said on Tuesday in announcing the ballot registration for match tickets. Fears remain that COVID-19 will continue to play a role in restricting international travel
11:06 PM ET NBA Insiders Should we be concerned about the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers after Game 1? The first round of the NBA playoffs has officially kicked off with all 16 teams in contention having a game under their belts in the Florida bubble. As a result, injuries, trends and difficult
3:05 AM ET Moments after the Golden Knights eliminated the Blackhawks in Game 5 of the Western Conference quarterfinals, Vegas’ Robin Lehner was hugging the Chicago players one by one in an emotional postgame handshake line. Lehner made 23 saves in the 4-3 win on Tuesday night, which gave Vegas a 4-1 series victory. Chicago
1:28 AM ET Kenta Maeda is what I refer to as a kitchen sink pitcher — as in he’ll throw the whole kitchen sink at you. On Tuesday night, the veteran right-hander had everything working for the Minnesota Twins in their Major League Baseball game against the Brewers: fastball, sinker, slider, splitter, blender, waffle iron.
12:21 AM ET Longtime champion Jon Jones announced Monday that he’d be vacating the UFC light heavyweight title. One day later, there is a resolution on what will happen next with that prestigious belt. A bout between top contenders Dominick Reyes and Jan Blachowicz was already set for UFC 253 on Sept. 26, as reported
Kenta Maeda not only has a no-hitter going through five innings, but he’s fanned eight batters in a row — one away from the AL record (shared by Doug Fister and Tyler Alexander, who did it earlier this season for the Tigers) and two away from Tom Seaver’s longstanding MLB mark. David Schoenfield, ESPN Senior
6:23 PM ET Project Paris has not come cheap for Qatar Sports Investments. At the last count, Paris Saint-Germain‘s owners had spent more than £820 million in transfer fees, recruited some of the world’s most high-profile players and coaches and endured nothing but failure in the Champions League every season since buying the club in
9:41 PM ET The NCAA’s football oversight committee has developed a 12-hour schedule model for teams not playing this fall that it recommended to the NCAA’s Division I council for approval on Tuesday. 1 Related West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons, the chair of the football oversight committee, told ESPN on Tuesday that the model
9:31 PM ET ESPN News Services LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The teams that didn’t get invited to Walt Disney World now have instructions on how they can get back to basketball — in their own bubbles. The NBA and National Basketball Players Association finalized an agreement Tuesday that allows the eight teams that didn’t
6:02 PM ET A highly anticipated featherweight bout between Brian Ortega and Chan Sung Jung will headline UFC Fight Night on Oct. 17 at a location to be determined, multiple sources told ESPN. The 145-pound contest was originally supposed to take place in December in Jung’s native South Korea, but Ortega was forced to withdraw
6:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — During a recent training camp practice when the Denver Broncos‘ defense was being seen — and heard — making plays all over the field, second-year quarterback Drew Lock showed off a little of his edge. Lock threw a dart up the right sideline to Courtland Sutton, over starting cornerback