4:06 PM ET We may not get to see Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje square off on April 18 due to the postponement of UFC 249, but we can check out a number of their best fights on ESPN2 this Saturday night. MMA fans will be able to enjoy seven straight hours of action Saturday
4:46 PM ET Associated Press Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano has completed his quarantine period that followed a positive test for the coronavirus and has returned to his base in New York. Castellano tested positive for COVID-19 last month as part of a physical mandated by Gulfstream Park to determine if he could be
1:28 PM ET If Canelo Alvarez meets Gennadiy Golovkin for the third time in September, the middleweight champion’s trainer believes his superstar boxer will win by knockout and settle once and for all the debate over who is better. “Without a doubt. If this fight happens, Canelo-Golovkin III, no doubt we’ll knock him out,” Eddy
7:15 AM ET With baseball season (and virtually everything else) on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, news that Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have discussed the idea of starting the season with all 30 teams playing in Arizona created quite a stir. MLB said it has “not settled on that option
3:10 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has added home-schooling elementary teacher to his resume. The sports stoppage from the coronavirus pandemic has thrown a red flag on Johnson’s farewell tour. He had planned a final season of racing a full NASCAR schedule, but so far that has lasted
7:00 AM ET Before we unfold the results of our Second-Chance World Series simulation, let’s muse a bit about what might have been had either, or both, of our finalists — the ’94 Montreal Expos and ’77 Kansas City Royals — gone on to win the World Series with what, for both clubs, were the
6:07 PM GMT Nicholas Pooran, Shimron Hetmyer and Shai Hope. These three men from three different islands in the Caribbean are the reason Michael Holding can see “light at the end of the tunnel” for West Indies cricket, which he feels can once again become a global force if the young talent is nurtured properly.
7:42 AM ET Tiger Woods had not won a major championship in 11 years. He hadn’t slipped on the green jacket as Masters champions in 14. Those two numbers alone would have made what happened last April at Augusta National Golf Club a tournament for the ages. But think about everything else that happened —
8:59 AM ET Who’s the best fighter in the smaller divisions? You can make a case for Mexico’s Julio Cesar Martinez or South Africa’s Moruti Mthalane at flyweight, or Kenshiro Teraji in the junior flyweight division and the 54-0 strawweight machine Wanheng Menayothin. With no live boxing for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus
Cycling’s governing body has furloughed staff and cut leaders’ salaries because of the coronavirus pandemic. The International Cycling Union (UCI) blamed the postponement of the Olympics and Paralympics, plus losing much of its annual calendar, for the move. UCI president David Lappartient said: “Our international federation is going through a crisis without precedent since the
5:11 PM GMT Ashley Giles, England’s director of men’s cricket, has said that “everything is on the table” when it comes to staging international cricket in the UK this summer, even as it looks increasingly unlikely that the Test series against West Indies will be able to go ahead as planned in June. With the
7:00 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN Luka Doncic could become the best-ever NBA player from Europe. Trae Young has already become one of the NBA’s most dynamic offensive players. Zion Williamson is the most electrifying rookie since LeBron James. Ja Morant has turned the Memphis Grizzlies into must-see TV. But which rising star would NBA decision-makers
11:44 AM ET There is no Masters this week, but had it been played at Augusta National, Tiger Woods says he would have been there in good health and ready to go. Woods, who has not competed since Feb. 16 at the Genesis Invitational and missed at least two tournaments he would have normally played,
11:06 AM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — Stefon Diggs hasn’t yet played a down for the Bills but that hasn’t stopped the Buffalo fanbase from embracing the team’s newest receiver — local restaurants, included. Burger joint Stack Burger introduced its “craziest creation yet” on Facebook last week, a four-patty burger named, “Can you DIGGS
11:01 AM ET Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby has been speaking with the other Power 5 conference commissioners daily and said on Thursday that he remains concerned about “whether or not we can have a full and robust football season” as the future of the sport remains uncertain because of the coronavirus pandemic. “Virtually every
8:29 AM ET As we approach the one-month mark since the night the NBA stopped, let’s look back on some of the good and bad of the 2019-20 season so far: 1. The state of the Spurs I found it — the precise moment the Spurs defensive backslide hit its nadir: The Gregg Popovich we
9:00 AM ET “We literally met with every network, every sports network — from the big broadcasters, NBC, ABC, CBS, the obvious, ESPN — multiple times,” said Lorenzo Fertitta, the CEO of the UFC in 2004. “Met with anybody that would take a meeting. We couldn’t get anybody to bite because everybody was very concerned
8:51 AM ET Dabo Swinney stood at the center of a collection of cameras and voice recorders, reporters huddled in a close circle that seems absurd now, and offered what he could on the future of his football team — essentially a shrug that amounted to “Your guess is as good as mine.” This was