12:51 AM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN Rey Vargas is a champion again and still undefeated. The former WBC junior featherweight champion, fighting for just the second time in three years, persevered through a late knockdown to dethrone WBC featherweight champ Mark Magsayo via split decision on Saturday in San Antonio, Texas. “I have no words to
File photo of Indian cricket team© AFP India have “a real powerhouse of a T20 team” available at their disposal that looks strong from top to bottom with an equally capable bench, feels former England spinner Ashley Giles. India cantered to a 49-run win in the second T20I against hosts England, taking an unassailable 2-0
LAS VEGAS — Set to play alongside Kawhi Leonard and Paul George next season, John Wall said he is delighted to be joining a loaded LA Clippers team that won’t need him to be “Batman every night for us to win.” In his first comments since officially signing a two-year, $13.2 million deal with LA,
12:51 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Rafael Fiziev proved to be one step ahead of Rafael dos Anjos over the course of four lightweight rounds on Saturday. And then in the fifth, he put the former champion away for good measure. Fiziev (12-1) continued his ascent of the UFC’s lightweight rankings with a blistering, left
10:58 PM ET Associated Press High Connection won the $125,000 Los Alamitos Derby by 1 3/4 lengths Saturday, giving trainer Bob Baffert his second victory on the card in his return to competition after serving a 90-day suspension. “What a way to come back,” said Baffert, whose punishment by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission ended
10:52 PM ET Associated Press NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — Max McGreevy completed a 9-under 63 on Saturday to share the second-round lead and had a one-stroke advantage when darkness suspended third-round play in the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship. Much of the field began the third round in the evening in sunny conditions after heavy showers hit
6:06 PM ET Kathleen McNamee SHEFFIELD, England — The stage for Saturday’s heavyweight Euro 2022 clash between reigning champions Netherlands and Sweden couldn’t have been set better. The Dutch had beaten the Swedes in both the 2017 quarterfinal and the 2019 World Cup semifinal. But, since their talismanic coach Sarina Wiegman went to England, there
8:18 PM ET Associated Press HAMPTON, Ga. — Georgia native Austin Hill claimed his second NASCAR Xfinity win of the season, leading an eight-car train across the line at Atlanta Motor Speedway to set off a raucous celebration in front of the home folks Saturday. The 28-year-old Xfinity rookie is from Winston, a small town
4:14 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Mitch Garver is a catcher who can hit, which is why the Texas Rangers acquired him. He doesn’t want to just hit, which is why he will have season-ending surgery to repair a torn flexor tendon in his throwing arm. Garver, 31, has been limited to being
4:50 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Shaedon Sharpe‘s first summer league with the Portland Trail Blazers is over. The No. 7 pick in last month’s NBA draft has been shut down for the remainder of Portland’s stay in Las Vegas because of a small labral tear in his left shoulder. An MRI performed
7:16 PM ET ESPN News Services STATELINE, Nev. — Three-time champion Mark Mulder eagled the par-5 16th hole Saturday and scored 25 points to take a three-point lead in the American Century Championship. Mulder, the former major league pitcher who won the golf event three straight times from 2015 to 2017, received six points for
6:42 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Derek Chisora showed there is more to come in his roller-coaster boxing career after he ended a run of three consecutive losses with a
6:21 PM BST Replacement fly-half Gareth Anscombe kicked a late conversion from the touchline as Wales claimed their first ever away victory in South Africa with an error-strewn 13-12 success over a much-changed Springboks at the Free State Stadium on Saturday. Wing Josh Adams crossed for the only try of the game with two minutes
5:36 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ohio — Part-time driver Parker Kligerman held off points leader Zane Smith to win the NASCAR Truck Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Saturday. Kligerman led 56 of the 67 laps on the 2.258-mile circuit, winning by 0.119 seconds in the No. 75 Henderson Motorsports Chevrolet. It
12:01 PM ET Luca de la Torre is used to betting on himself and coming out ahead in the end. At age 15, he left San Diego to join the academy of English side Fulham. He rose through the ranks and eventually broke through to the first team, but when playing time proved limited, De
11:34 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com LONDON — Even Elena Rybakina didn’t expect to win Wimbledon this year. She didn’t even see herself reaching the second week. She knew she had been putting in the work and had long-term dreams for herself, but she wasn’t happy with her preparation ahead of the tournament and had struggled
Lewis Hamilton has criticised spectators at the Austrian Grand Prix for cheering when he crashed in qualifying at the Red Bull Ring. Hamilton went off at Turn Seven, close to grandstands packed with Dutch fans of his 2021 title rival Max Verstappen. “I was going through a bunch of stuff in the crash, but to
India captain Rohit Sharma started off well in the second T20I against England at Edgbaston on Sunday. He looked to be great flow until he was dismissed on 31 off 20 balls. Before that, Sharma entertained the audience with two sixes and three fours. Then England debutant Richard Gleeson struck. Bowling his first over in