6:34 PM ET MIAMI — A heavyweight bout has been removed from the UFC’s prelim card Saturday. Chase Sherman has a medical issue and is out of a scheduled matchup with Karl Williams at UFC 287 here at Kaseya Center, the UFC announced at the start of the broadcast. Editor’s Picks Sherman (16-11) has dropped
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11:22 PM ET Robbie Lawler‘s UFC welterweight title defense against Rory MacDonald in July 2015 is widely considered one of the best fights in mixed martial arts history. The UFC will honor it as such when it inducts the bout into its Hall of Fame this summer. The UFC announced Saturday the 170-pound title bout,
9:00 AM ET Ryan S. Clark Close Ryan S. Clark NHL reporter Ryan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. Kristen Shilton Close Kristen Shilton ESPN NHL reporter Kristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. The 2022-23 NHL regular season is nearing its end, and it was a record-breaking campaign for the
7:15 AM ET Mychal Denzel Smith THE EXACT NUMBER of punches that Emile Griffith landed on March 24, 1962, at Madison Square Garden, in the flurry that killed Benny “Kid” Paret, is in dispute. According to which expert you ask, it was anywhere between 17 and 29 clean shots, mostly uppercuts with a few hooks
6:36 AM ET A golf ball Tiger Woods gave to a young fan during the final round of his victorious 1997 Masters tournament has sold for $64,124, auction house Golden Age Auctions said on Sunday. Woods bogeyed the fifth hole and handed the ball to Julian Nexsen, who was nine-years-old at the time. Bidding for
1:51 AM BST Another weekend, another Round of Super Rugby Pacific in the books. The first bye round, we had just four games to keep us entertained in Round 7 with plenty of table reshuffling and a couple of score blowouts across the weekend. Read on as we review some of the Super — and
11:19 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — Nelson Cruz isn’t eager to talk about his age. The slugger just wants to produce whenever he’s in the lineup, and he is proving he still belongs in the major leagues. Cruz hit a three-run homer and drove in six runs, and the San Diego Padres beat
An office bearer of the all-powerful BCCI will now be paid a daily allowance of USD 1000 on foreign tours and will fly first-class. The increase in allowances doled out to the BCCI office bearers was tabled in the Apex Council meeting on Sunday but came into effect last October. The per diem (daily allowance)
1:41 PM ET Andy Robertson appeared to receive an elbow to the face from the assistant referee. John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images The Professional Game Match Officials Ltd. (PGMOL), the body responsible for match officials across English football, will investigate an alleged elbow by assistant referee Constantine Hatzidakis on Liverpool defender Andrew Robertson during Sunday’s
10:12 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — After LIV Golf League captain Brooks Koepka failed to hold a 54-hole lead in the final round of the Masters on Sunday, it was fairly obvious what the most oft-told joke would be on social media this week. Koepka wasn’t used to playing 72 holes. But after all the
12:00 AM ET The NBA postseason is here, with 20 teams still fighting for the 2022-23 title. And after a campaign of blockbuster trades, record scoring numbers, the end of a historic playoff drought and a wild race to the finish to decide play-in tournament seeding, who is going to win this thing? The No.
10:37 PM ET Associated Press Christopher Bell held on through a restart eight laps from the end to hold off Tyler Reddick and win the dirt race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday night. Bell was a whiz-kid dirt racing sensation growing up and that experience helped the Joe Gibbs Racing driver to his fifth
11:57 PM BST Australia’s rugby sevens men have fought back from a deflating quarter-final exit at the Singapore world series event to keep alive their hopes of qualifying for the Olympics. Nick Malouf’s team were hammered in the last-eight on Sunday by Argentina, who ran in five tries against them in a 29-12 trouncing. But
7:29 PM ET ESPN News Services AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jon Rahm turned the longest day into his sweetest victory, starting Sunday with a 4-shot deficit in the morning chill and finishing in fading sunlight as the fourth Spaniard to become a Masters champion. Rahm closed with a 3-under 69 to pull away from mistake-prone Brooks
9:15 PM ET ESPN staff The Boston Bruins set an NHL record for wins with their 63rd victory of the season Sunday against the Philadelphia Flyers. With two games remaining, the Bruins need just one more point to tie the record for most points in a season (132 by the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens) and two
8:58 PM ET The Boston Bruins have set a new NHL single-season record with 63 wins, defeating the Flyers 5-3 on Sunday at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. Bruins forward David Pastrnak tallied a hat trick to give him 60 goals on the season, second only to Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid (64). The Bruins entered
9:02 PM ET Another weekend of European football is in the books and, once again, there was drama across the board. Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland broke records in Manchester City‘s 4-1 thrashing of Southampton. Elsewhere, Liverpool and Arsenal provided what could be the game of the season in a thrilling 2-2 draw, Villarreal
3:43 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Oneil Cruz left Sunday’s game against the Chicago White Sox with a left leg injury following a collision at home plate. Cruz suffered a fractured ankle during the collision, Pirates manager Derek Shelton said afterward. Cruz was attempting to score from third on a chopper