Apr 10, 2022 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Aljamain Sterling is the UFC’s undisputed bantamweight champion. Undisputed. Kind of. Sterling (21-3) got the last laugh on Petr Yan (16-3) and all his critics Saturday, as he pulled out a razor-close split decision over Yan. The 135-pound title fight, which was supposed to end any controversy left over
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11:30 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Four-time Grand Slam singles champion Kim Clijsters has retired from professional tennis again. Clijsters, who ended her second retirement in 2019 after a seven-year hiatus, announced Tuesday that she will “no longer play official tournaments.” “I can’t wait to see what new adventures will cross my path,” the
This year’s Women’s Tour will feature the biggest field in the British race’s eight-year history with 108 riders from 18 teams set to compete. All 14 of the UCI WorldTeams are included, including the top-ranked Team SD Worx and their defending champion Demi Vollering. Two British teams, CAMS-Basso and Le Col-Wahoo, are also part of
10:57 AM ET Alabama plucked another established starter out of the college football transfer portal on Tuesday, gaining the commitment of former Vanderbilt offensive lineman Tyler Steen. Steen, who is 6-foot-5 and 315 pounds, chose the Crimson Tide over programs like LSU and Kentucky. He started 10 of 11 games last year and has two
7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. After a one-game slate last night, there are considerably more games on tap for hockey fans tonight — 14 of them, in fact, including a double-header on ESPN: Philadelphia Flyers at Washington Capitals
7:00 AM ET FOR MONTHS DURING the lockout, Major League Baseball players had a consistent gripe about the system they were attempting to change — a gripe to which fans, too, could relate. At issue is a strategy that has become commonplace in baseball: Tanking. Popularized during World Series title runs first by the Chicago
8:24 PM ET DALLAS — An MRI on Monday confirmed that Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic suffered a left calf strain in the team’s regular-season finale, a source told ESPN. The source said no timetable has been set for Doncic’s return. Asked if he could be ruled out for Game 1 of the team’s first-round
7:52 AM ET They can envision April 30 now. Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano walking toward the ring in the main arena of New York’s Madison Square Garden, one of the most iconic sporting venues in the world. Thousands of fans cheering. Irish and Puerto Rican flags flying. A buzz in the air, a fight
6:00 AM ET NFL NationESPN With respect to the AFC West, the AFC North might be the best and most exciting division in the NFL as it is now home to three of the best young quarterbacks in the Baltimore Ravens‘ Lamar Jackson, the Cincinnati Bengals‘ Joe Burrow and Cleveland Browns‘ Deshaun Watson. Led by
5:00 AM ET Gabriele Marcotti Mark Ogden Dear Richard Arnold and Joel Glazer: Another summer of change is approaching at your club, Manchester United, and with it, you hope, another period of introspection searching for the answer to this basic question: “How do we go back to being what we were on the pitch?” We
7:05 AM ET Meredith Lang was a hockey enthusiast. She liked the game well enough to play in high school but left it behind to pursue a track and field career that carried her to the 2004 U.S. Olympic trials. Life rolled on. Hockey morphed into distant memory. Then, Lang had two daughters. And as
7:00 AM ET IKEM EKWONU HAS an uncanny ability to size up a man from the opposite side of the line of scrimmage and instantly decide how he’ll whip the guy. Perhaps it stems from his days as a high school wrestler, when each bout was a mano-a-mano showdown in which dominance must be established.
Rashid Khan has been steady without being extraordinary like previous years and the reason for that is the safety first approach by opposition batters during this edition of IPL, feels Gujarat Titans spinner. Rashid has taken six wickets from four matches at an economy rate of 6.68 but batters across teams have negotiated the Afghan
7:00 AM ET Until the mid-1960s, substitutions in college football were minimal. All-around athletes dominated, playing frequently on both sides of the ball. But with the end of the mandate on one-platoon play in 1965, specialization began to reign. Players better at offense became offensive players, players better at defense became defenders, and rather quickly,
Babar Azam was in top form during Australia’s tour of Pakistan.© AFP Rated by many as one of the best batters in modern-day cricket, Babar Azam was on the receiving end of special praise from former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif. Speaking on YouTube, Latif rated Babar ahead of former Pakistan greats like Javed Miandad, Wasim
10:37 PM ET Alexander Volkanovski has welcomed Henry Cejudo’s return to the USADA testing pool, but the Australian says he is instead focused on a shift to lightweight and an immediate crack at becoming a two-division UFC champion. Fresh off his domination of Chan Sung Jung at UFC 273, Volkanovski is already mapping out his
6:17 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Lerner family that has owned the Washington Nationals since 2006 is exploring the possibility of selling the Major League Baseball franchise. Manager Dave Martinez said before the team’s game at Atlanta that managing principal owner Mark Lerner called him Monday morning to deliver the news. Lerner, who
10:43 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — With Frank Vogel removed as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers earlier in the day, Lakers point guard Russell Westbrook opened up about the disconnect that existed between the two of them in his first season in L.A. “I think it’s unfortunate, to be honest, because I’ve never
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