8:00 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Ranking the fights on a big UFC card can seem like an obvious exercise. The sport curates its fight nights to build and build throughout the evening, culminating in the main event that has been hyped on promo posters to draw fans into the arena or to watch on television.
Month: May 2022
German car companies Audi and Porsche have decided to enter Formula 1, the boss of their parent group Volkswagen said on Monday. VW chief executive Herbert Diess said discussions about F1 at board level had created divisions within the group. He said Audi and Porsche bosses, whose brands are VW’s biggest income generators, argued entering
6:12 AM ET It has been nearly a month since the Masters, the first major championship of the season, and the PGA Championship, the second major, is just two weeks away. Not much has changed since Scottie Scheffler won his first major and slipped on a green jacket at Augusta National Golf Club on April
7:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN LAS VEGAS — The last time North Carolina State won the ACC championship in football was 1979, long enough ago that Monte Kiffin became the Wolfpack’s head coach the next year. In more than four decades since, the school has long been regarded as one of the sport’s most vexing
7:00 AM ET Andrea Adelson Close ESPN Senior Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. With spring football wrapped up and the start of another season just four months away,
Britain’s Mark Cavendish is unlikely to return to the Tour de France after Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl selected him for the Giro d’Italia. Cavendish, 36, equalled Eddy Merckx’s Tour de France stage win record of 34 during last year’s race, after victory in four stages. Dutch sprinter Fabio Jakobsen is expected to compete for the team
5:38 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus‘s plans to play a preseason tournament in the United States are at risk of collapse, sources have told ESPN. The three clubs, who continue to lead the push for a European Super League, had hoped to play a series of exhibition games in
5:04 PM ET CHICAGO — Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani was removed from Sunday’s game against the Chicago White Sox because of right groin tightness. Ohtani went 0-for-3 as the Angels’ designated hitter before being lifted for pinch-hitter Jack Mayfield with two runners on and Los Angeles leading 4-0 in the ninth inning. The
May 1, 2022 Round 11, 2022. Mark it down on your calendar as the weekend when Super Rugby Pacific put down the most delicate of roots. After only two wins from 25 trans-Tasman games last year, it has taken Australian teams only eight days to eclipse that mark in 2022 with four more weeks of
4:29 AM BST It may well prove to be the weekend when Super Rugby Pacific truly found its feet. Six enthralling contests, five of which where the margin was just four points or less, were played across the weekend, while the historic first game on home soil for the Fijian Drua won’t be forgotten anytime
Jos Buttler has scored three centuries in the IPL 2022 so far.© Twitter Rajasthan Royals (RR) have been in great form in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. With six wins in nine matches, the Sanju Samson-led RR are currently third in the 10-team table with 12 points. RR face Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on
6:49 PM ET Jamal CollierESPN BOSTON — Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo had made two unsuccessful attempts to drive past Boston Celtics forward Grant Williams on a possession midway through the fourth quarter on Sunday, so Antetokounmpo had to get creative. He faked a shot to his left and then turned his body right, gathering
8:00 PM ET ESPN News Services The Cincinnati Reds placed second baseman Jonathan India on the injured list for the second time this season and then lost their sixth straight game, 10-1 to the Colorado Rockies, to fall to 3-19, setting the franchise mark for their worst start to a season. Not only is the
8:54 PM ET Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Steven Alker returned from a two-hour rain delay by playing a six-hole stretch in 6-under par on the back nine to race past Steve Stricker, close with a 6-under 66 and win the Insperity Invitational on Sunday for his second victory this year on the PGA
9:15 PM ET Associated Press PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — Marina Alex won the Palos Verdes Championship on Sunday for her second LPGA Tour title, breaking a tie with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 16th and parring the final two holes for a one-stroke victory over Jin Young Ko. Three strokes behind Hannah Green
9:25 PM BST The Wallabies will play their first mid-week Test in 28 years, attempting to wrest back the Bledisloe Cup from the All Blacks on a Thursday night in Melbourne. The trans-Tasman rivals will meet on September 15 at Marvel Stadium with the embattled code avoiding a clash with AFL and NRL finals. The
7:14 PM ET Associated Press PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — Jon Rahm pulled out of a four-way tie with a 12-foot birdie putt on the 14th hole and then held on with pars for a 2-under 69 and a one-shot victory Sunday in the Mexico Open. Rahm won for the first time since the U.S. Open
5:27 PM ET Kendra AndrewsESPN MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Draymond Green was ejected with less than two minutes left in the first half of the Golden State Warriors‘ opening game against the Memphis Grizzlies in their Western Conference semifinal series. As Memphis forward Brandon Clarke went up for a dunk with 1:18 left in the second