12:53 AM ET LAS VEGAS — In mixed martial arts, there has been Jon Jones and then everyone else for more than a decade. After a move up in weight and three years away, absolutely nothing has changed. Jones defeated Ciryl Gane with a guillotine choke at 2 minutes, 4 seconds of the first round
7:29 PM ET Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Kurt Kitayama had to leave home to find his way in golf by playing circuits in Europe, Australia and Asia, all for a chance to get to the highest level. Along with three worldwide titles, he learned how to battle. That might come in handy Sunday at
11:32 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Joel Embiid made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 41.4 seconds left and the Philadelphia 76ers rallied from a 19-point deficit to beat Milwaukee 133-130 on Saturday, snapping the Bucks’ 16-game winning streak. Milwaukee had the longest winning streak by any NBA team since the Phoenix Suns had 18 straight
11:32 PM ET Fairleigh Dickinson became the first team to punch its ticket to the 2023 NCAA tournament on Saturday — and the Knights did it without winning their conference tournament. Merrimack, the 1-seed in the Northeast Conference tournament, is still in the midst of its four-year reclassification process from Division II to Division I
11:22 PM ET Championship Week and March Madness are nearly here. Beginning with the ASUN on Feb. 27 and ending with the Ivy, A-10, SEC, American and Big Ten right up until the bracket is revealed on Selection Sunday (March 12), teams across Division I men’s college basketball will be competing for the chance to
10:27 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Marta Kostyuk and Varvara Gracheva each reached her first WTA final by beating an American at the ATX Open on Saturday. The eighth-seeded Kostyuk took five of the last six games to eliminate 2022 Australian Open runner-up Danielle Collins 6-4, 6-3 in the day’s first semifinal. Gracheva
9:54 PM ET Associated Press CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Miami coach Jim Larrañaga climbed the ladder, grabbed the last strand of net, ripped it off the rim and waved it in the air. It took all 20 league games, going down to the final second, but his Hurricanes can call themselves Atlantic Coast Conference champions.
New South Wales stalwart and Australia three-Test seamer Trent Copeland has announced his retirement from first-class cricket. Copeland has been a mainstay of Sheffield Shield cricket over the past 14 years having taken 410 first-class wickets at 25.65 including 21 five-wicket hauls and three 10-wicket hauls. Copeland, who turns 37 on March 14, said it
7:42 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Tim Yakteen got the best of his former boss, Bob Baffert, with Practical Move’s 2½-length victory in the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday. At Florida’s Gulfstream, Forte easily won the $400,000 Fountain of Youth as the 1-2 favorite in his 3-year-old debut. The
7:56 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Austin Hill overtook Chandler Smith just before the final lap to win the NASCAR Xfinity Series race Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Smith, who was the pole sitter, led 118 laps of the 200-lap race and appeared to be in good shape before Hill made his
1:10 PM ET LONDON — Reiss Nelson scored a dramatic 97th-minute winner as Arsenal came from two goals down to beat AFC Bournemouth 3-2 on Saturday to reestablish a five-point lead at the top of the Premier League. Philip Billing scored the second-fastest goal in the division’s history, after just 9.11 seconds, to give the
6:28 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS —Florida Gators quarterback Anthony Richardson has said he’s referred to himself as “Cam Jackson” because he liked Cam Newton and Lamar Jackson so much. During the quarterback workouts at the NFL’s scouting combine on Saturday, Richardson looked every bit as physically imposing as Newton and ran almost like Jackson. At 6-foot-4,
4:49 PM ET ESPN News Services BOSTON — Linus Ullmark made 24 saves, helping the NHL-leading Boston Bruins past Patrick Kane and the new-look New York Rangers 4-2 on Saturday. Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak, Charlie Coyle and Tomas Nosek scored, and new addition Tyler Bertuzzi had an assist in his debut as the Bruins cruised
5:39 PM ET The Phoenix Suns are hiring Detroit Pistons executive Josh Bartelstein as the team’s new CEO, sources told ESPN on Saturday. New owner Mat Ishbia targeted Bartelstein as CEO to help him overhaul a troubled post-Robert Sarver organizational culture and now they’ll work together to oversee the franchise’s business and basketball divisions, sources
5:31 PM ET LAS VEGAS — While the Oakland Athletics mull the possibility of moving to Southern Nevada, Las Vegas baseball officials insist the gaming capital is ready to take on a Major League Baseball franchise. Las Vegas has been home to a Triple-A team since 1983, and currently, the club is the Athletics’ affiliate.
5:09 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry and forward Andre Iguodala are probable to make their respective returns from injury Sunday afternoon as the Warriors face the Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.com Arena. Curry has missed the Warriors’ past 11 games after sustaining a left lower leg injury against the Dallas
5:14 PM ET The Tampa Bay Lightning benched three star players during the third period of their 5-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday afternoon. Forwards Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point didn’t appear in the third period for Lightning, who trailed the Sabres 4-1 entering the period. The loss in Buffalo left
4:28 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano, who won the October race in Las Vegas, qualified Saturday for the pole position in Sunday’s Pennzoil 400. Logano, driving the Team Penske No. 22 Ford, had a speed of 186.053 mph. He has won three of his past eight