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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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