4:01 AM ET Former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton has announced a shock return to boxing at the age of 43. Hatton said in a social media post that he plans to make the return in his hometown of Manchester in a bout against Marco Antonio Barrera of Mexico on July 2. The British fighter
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Carlos Sainz has signed a new contract with Ferrari until the end of 2024. The Spaniard joined Ferrari in 2021 as team-mate to Charles Leclerc and has impressed with his speed, consistency and collaborative philosophy. His new deal means his contract is as long as that of Leclerc, who signed a five-year deal before the
7:29 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — The U.S. Capitol was briefly evacuated Wednesday evening after police identified an aircraft that they said posed “a probable threat” — but the plane was actually carrying members of the U.S. Army Golden Knights, who then parachuted into the Washington Nationals‘ baseball stadium for a pregame demonstration.
1:25 AM ET ESPN News Services Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin scored his 49th and 50th goals of the season in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Vegas Golden Knights in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, hitting a milestone that he’s seemingly made look easy year after year. Vegas coach Peter DeBoer pulled starting goalie
11:41 PM ET Brianna Williams Joel Embiid knows what it’s like to be losing on the side of a go-ahead 3-pointer in the NBA playoffs, but that wasn’t the case on Wednesday night. The Philadelphia 76ers star splashed a turnaround three with under one second remaining in overtime to secure a 104-101 win against the
Jockey imitated Shane Warne’s bowling action after winning race.© Instagram Shane Warne‘s untimely demise in March shocked the world this year. The legendary Australian spinner had passed away in Thailand this year and his memorial at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) was attended by many with tributes from Sachin Tendulkar, Nasser Hussain, Merv Hughes. In a
12:01 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — The 2022 PFL season is officially off and running. And for the second consecutive year, so is lightweight fan favorite Clay Collard. Collard (21-9) earned 3 points in the PFL lightweight standings on Wednesday, by defeating Jeremy Stephens (28-20) via unanimous decision. The 155-pound bout was incredibly entertaining, as
5:56 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — Pressure? What pressure? Manchester City watched Liverpool take top spot in the Premier League table on Tuesday night and then promptly claimed it back. For now it’s as you were in the title race with six games to go, although Pep Guardiola and his players were reminded
7:52 PM ET Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya has been accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed Wednesday against him and his tequila brand Casa Mexico, according to court documents obtained by ESPN. A female former employee of Casa Mexico alleges in the filing that De La Hoya sexually harassed and sexually assaulted
7:37 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Nevada is in the market for a new athletic director. Athletic director Doug Knuth is out at the Mountain West Conference school, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The university was expected to make the change official later in the day. Knuth has been at Nevada since 2013, and his hires
3:29 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Dwayne Haskins’ wife told a 911 dispatcher that the quarterback was walking to get gas on the morning he was struck and killed by a dump truck on a Florida highway, audio released by the Broward County Sheriff’s office revealed Wednesday. Kalabrya Haskins told the 911 dispatcher that her husband
1:56 PM ET ESPN tennis analyst Pam Shriver said Wednesday that she was in what she called “an inappropriate and damaging relationship with my much older coach” that began when she was 17 and lasted for five years. Shriver, in an interview with ESPN’s Outside the Lines as well as a first-person story and podcast
7:01 PM ET Associated Press Bob Babich, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame who played linebacker in the NFL for the Chargers and Browns, has died. He was 74. Babich died April 3 at his home in Clairemont, California. His death was reported by the National Football Foundation on Wednesday. A native
7:00 AM ET BOSTON — Fenway Park DJ Kahleil Blair stares down onto the field at Fenway Park on Tuesday night, watching the Boston Red Sox host the Toronto Blue Jays, waiting. Perched in front of a Mac with QLab software loaded up with songs like “Levitating” by Dua Lipa and “Fireflies” by Owl City,
The oversized snowflakes fell softly and silently, settling among the pines like a picturesque Christmas scene. By the roadside, spectators in heavy winter coats watched team cars and motorbikes struggle up one of Liege-Bastogne-Liege’s countless climbs, tyres spinning in the slush as they pursued one man on a bike. It was April 1980 and Bernard
2:43 PM ET Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker is likely to miss Games 3 and 4 against the New Orleans Pelicans with a mild right hamstring strain, but he hasn’t been ruled out for the rest of the opening-round Western Conference series, sources told ESPN. The Suns were still evaluating results of an MRI on
6:21 PM ET LONDON — One is an academy graduate without a Premier League goal to his name all season, the other is a £97.5million striker signed to win his team the title. Both are out of favour and may well be playing their football at different clubs next season after publicly voicing concerns about
12:51 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For the past few months, the San Francisco 49ers have repeatedly said they’d like to keep receiver Deebo Samuel for a long time. On Wednesday, it became clear that Samuel and the Niners don’t quite see things the same way. Samuel, who is entering the final year of