12:01 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Anthony Pettis, the main attraction of Friday night’s season-opening event in the Professional Fighting League, is known as “Showtime.” But Clay Collard stole the show. Collard knocked down Pettis, the former UFC lightweight champion, twice in Round 2 and survived a head-kick knockdown in the third round to take a
Month: April 2021
IPL 2021: Ben Stokes expressed displeasure with the pitches used in Chennai for the IPL.© BCCI/IPL England all-rounder Ben Stokes has criticised the slow track of Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium and hoped that teams competing in the IPL do not end up regularly scraping to low scores because of wickets that are “trash”. Stokes, whose
7:49 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, La. — Tony Finau and Cameron Champ shot a 4-under 68 in alternate-shot play Friday for a share of the Zurich Classic lead with the Norwegian duo of Viktor Hovland and Kris Ventura. “I know we’re having a good time with this format up to this point,” Finau said
10:15 PM ET Season by season, game after game, New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom has been compiling a resume that has many calling him baseball’s best pitcher. On Friday night, deGrom made the 187th start of his big league career. It may have been his most dominant outing yet. DeGrom struck out 15 batters
10:15 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Jessica Korda rode out a series of big momentum shifts Friday at historic Wilshire Country Club to hold onto the lead in the HUGEL Air Premia LA Open. Six strokes ahead after three holes, tied with top-ranked Jin Young Ko at the turn and two shots back
5:26 PM ET Friday’s 1-0 defeat against Everton is precisely the sort of mediocrity the Arsenal fans outside of Emirates Stadium were protesting about. If given their right of reply, the Kroenke family might counter that these mid-table affairs would have become a thing of the past had the Super League they signed up to
3:00 PM ET While continuing to reiterate its support for the current four-team format, the College Football Playoff management committee this week considered dozens of possibilities for future expansion, including options ranging from six to 16 teams, the CFP announced on Friday after two days of virtual meetings. The CFP management committee, which is comprised
6:02 PM ET World No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia crushed countryman Miomir Kecmanovic 6-1, 6-3 to reach the semifinals in Belgrade. A two-time winner of the event, Djokovic eliminated the No. 8 seed in 75 minutes. He won 75 percent of the points on his first serve (24 of 32), compared to 37 percent
6:30 PM ET Tiger Woods posted a photo of himself on crutches and with a small cast covering his right foot and ankle while at his backyard practice area in Jupiter, Florida. The photo, which Woods posted on Instagram on Friday afternoon, is the first of Woods since he was involved in a serious one-vehicle
5:06 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Say this for the Kansas City Chiefs: When they see a weakness on their roster, they go all-in on fixing it. The Chiefs couldn’t afford to overlook the mess their offensive line had become, not after the way quarterback Patrick Mahomes was harassed during last season’s Super Bowl
5:34 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim The PFL begins its 2021 season on Friday night in Atlantic City, New Jersey, closing the show with “Showtime.” Former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis makes his PFL debut in the main event at Ocean Casino Resort, taking on a fighter who built his own name in two sports, Clay
1:22 PM ET Gab Marcotti Mark Ogden It’s been a seismic week for soccer. From the hasty unveiling of the Super League on Sunday — with 12 top clubs around Europe announcing their intent to form a breakaway competition in which they’d compete, consequence-free, outside the UEFA Champions League — to its rapid collapse on
4:52 PM ET Wisconsin announced that head football coach Paul Chryst and five other head coaches were given contract extensions on Friday. Chryst, along with men’s basketball coach Greg Gard, women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson and men’s hockey coach Tony Granato, all received agreements that see their contract extend through portions of 2026. Swimming and
4:48 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin will be out for the rest of the season with an upper-body injury. Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill made the announcement Friday. Like many of his teammates, Larkin struggled this season. The 24-year-old center had nine goals and 14 assists in 44 games.
4:06 PM ET Marc J. Spears Phoenix Hillcrest Prep senior forward Michael Foster told The Undefeated on Instagram Live on Friday that he will be joining the G League Ignite next season. Foster is currently the seventh ranked high school player in the 2021 ESPN Class of 100. The 6-foot-8, 215-pounder chose joining the G
3:05 PM ET Associated Press The Calgary Flames have had one player test positive for COVID-19 and called off their morning skate due to the test. The club said in a statement the player was in isolation and other players and staff members had tested negative for the coronavirus. Montreal was prepared to play at
3:23 PM ET Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ducks forward Jakob Silfverberg will be sidelined for four to six months after undergoing surgery to repair a torn labrum and a bone problem in his right hip. Silfverberg had the surgery Thursday at the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles, the Ducks announced Friday. Silfverberg had
12:46 PM ET Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain — Rafael Nadal brushed aside Cameron Norrie 6-1, 6-4 to ease into the semifinals of the Barcelona Open on Friday and moved closer to a record-extending 12th title at the event. After Nadal breezed through the first set, Britain’s Norrie won back a break in the second. Nadal,
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