German Max Schachmann won the first stage of Paris-Nice in a four-man sprint finish in Plaisir. The Bora-Hansgrohe rider, 26, finished the 154km stage in three hours 32 minutes nine seconds, two seconds ahead of Team Sunweb’s Tiesj Benoot. Seven teams, including Team Ineos, withdrew before the race started because of the coronavirus outbreak. The
7:00 AM ET A look at what’s happening around the New York Jets: 1. Corner market: It happens every two or three years; the Jets, desperate for a CB1, pay a premium price for a big-name free agent. It was Darrelle Revis in 2015 ($39 million guaranteed) and Trumaine Johnson ($34 million) in 2018. To
7:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. Open-minded approach: When receiver Phillip Dorsett entered unrestricted free agency last offseason, his first choice was to return to the Patriots and that contributed to him not visiting with other teams. As for this year? “I would
4:31 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Israel Adesanya is still the UFC middleweight champion, escaping a bizarre battle with Yoel Romero by unanimous decision in the main event of UFC 248 on Saturday night. Zhang Weili, meanwhile, held on to her strawweight title in an instant classic against Joanna Jedrzejczyk in the co-main event. The
9:17 AM ET The Nashville Predators‘ midseason coaching change from Peter Laviolette to John Hynes didn’t cause the kind of immediate impact that some had hoped, but the team has lingered in the playoff mix through much of the second half. With Saturday’s 1-0 win over the Dallas Stars, they jumped back into the second
4:20 AM ET On a night when the UFC announced a fight was being inducted into the Hall of Fame Class of 2020, fans at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas were treated to an epic bout that probably will have its own HOF induction announcement some day. Zhang Weili defended her strawweight crown with
1:35 AM ET Israel Adesanya defeated Yoel Romero by unanimous decision to retain his middleweight championship in Saturday night’s main event at UFC 248 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The judges scored the bout 48-47, 48-47 and 49-46. The first two rounds featured very few exchanges between the fighters, though Romero connected with an
3:36 AM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — King Guillermo won the $351,000 Tampa Bay Derby by 4 3/4 lengths on Saturday for owner Victor Martinez, a five-time All-Star in Major League Baseball. The 3-year-old colt earned 50 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby. However, King Guillermo isn’t nominated to the Triple Crown series, so
Riders and staff of French teams Cofidis and Groupama-FDJ have been released from quarantine in the United Arab Emirates. The final two stages of the UAE Tour were cancelled after two coronavirus cases, with riders at the event then tested for the virus. While most teams left the UAE last week, Cofidis and Groupama-FDJ were
12:47 AM ET Steve KimESPN In a fight that was presumed to be an afterthought for Adam Kownacki, Robert Helenius earned a TKO victory in Saturday night’s heavyweight title eliminator at Barclays Center and likely set himself up for at least a few significant fights to come. To put this fight into perspective, sportsbook William
1:49 PM ET What happened in the exhibition game broadcasts last week on ESPN was the equivalent of dropping a shovel into the ground and touching off a fountain of oil. About a dozen players wore microphones for three dozen innings and generated viral moments that will last — and shape the game’s future. We
12:01 AM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Bob and Mike Bryan won the final Davis Cup match of their brilliant career to advance the United States into the final, beating Uzbekistan’s Sanjar Fayziev and Denis Istomin 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday. The victory gave the United States an insurmountable 3-0 lead. The Americans were the final
12:50 AM ET LAS VEGAS — A chaotic training camp and a superb effort from one of the most decorated champions in UFC history was still not enough to topple Zhang Weili. Zhang (21-1) recorded the first defense of her 115-pound title on Saturday, as she defeated former five-time defending champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk (16-4) via
4:00 PM ET Rikki Soumpholphakdy The relationship between boxer and trainer is often put under a microscope. Sometimes it’s personal. Other times it’s strictly business. For Shakur Stevenson and many of his pugilist peers, they benefit from having a rare gem in Kompa Koroma, otherwise known as Coach Kay. The two met when Stevenson was
12:12 AM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Authentic led all the way to win the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths at Santa Anita on Saturday, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert a record seventh win in the Grade 2 race. Ridden by Drayden Van Dyke, Authentic ran 1 1/16 miles
11:05 PM ET NEW YORK — Heavyweight Robert Helenius, a big underdog, who had taken a beating for most of the first three rounds, rallied for a shocking fourth-round technical knockout of contender Adam Kownacki in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions on Fox card on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Mar 6, 2020 NEW YORK — Blue-chip heavyweight prospect Efe Ajagba faced perhaps his toughest and most experienced opponent in former world title challenger Razvan Cojanu, and Ajagba laid a beating on him on Saturday night. Ajagba scored two knockdowns and stopped Cojanu in the ninth round of the co-feature of the Premier Boxing Champions
9:08 PM GMT England coach Eddie Jones broke his own rule about never criticising match officials when he described the late red card for Manu Tuilagi as “absolute rubbish” and claimed England ended up playing against 16 men in their 33-30 Six Nations win over Wales on Saturday. 1 Related England looked to be cruising