4:09 PM ET A heavyweight bout between Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Marcin Tybura has been removed from the UFC 273 card because of an illness by Tybura, the UFC announced Friday. Tybura was the second-to-last fighter to weigh in Friday morning, but he was well within the 266-pound, nontitle heavyweight limit, weighing 253 pounds. The UFC
12:31 AM ET Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Brandon Jones overtook Ty Gibbs on the last lap of a two-lap sprint to the finish and won at Martinsville Speedway on Friday night for his fifth career victory, and one that set off a brawl on pit road when it was over. On the final restart,
1:17 AM ET Jamal CollierESPN CHICAGO — After entering the All-Star break tied for first place in the Eastern Conference, the Chicago Bulls’ prolonged second-half struggles have seen them fall in the standings as they endure their worst stretch of the season heading into the playoffs. Chicago locked itself into the No. 6 seed in
1:45 AM ET Arguably the greatest fight in women’s MMA history will be run back later this spring. Zhang Weili and Joanna Jedrzejczyk, both former UFC women’s strawweight champions, have verbally agreed to a rematch at UFC 275 on June 11 in Singapore, UFC chief business officer Hunter Campbell told ESPN on Saturday. Bout agreements
9:36 PM ET DALLAS — Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic will be suspended for Sunday’s regular-season finale unless the NBA office rescinds the technical foul called against him after the first quarter of Friday night’s 128-78 win over the Portland Trail Blazers. It was officially Doncic’s 16th technical foul of the season, triggering an automatic one-game
9:49 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” WASHINGTON — Benches cleared during the New York Mets–Washington Nationals game Friday night after Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor was hit in the batting helmet with a pitch, the second such incident in
10:09 PM ET Blake Baumgartner A couple months after winning a national title at Georgia, new Oregon head coach Dan Lanning just hit a home run late in the recruiting cycle. Josh Conerly Jr., a 6-foot-5 and 280-pound offensive tackle out of Rainier Beach High School in Seattle, won’t have to move too far to
10:21 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Reigning champion Cristian Garin beat No. 2 seed Taylor Fritz 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3 on Friday to reach the semifinals at the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship and improve his career record at the tournament to 8-0. Fritz is the highest-ranked American man at No. 13 and had
England wicketkeeper-batter Sam Billings was picked up by the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the IPL 2022 mega auction for Rs 2 crore and he has proved his worth in the ongoing season by making valuable contributions. In the last game against Mumbai Indians, Billings produced a quickfire stumping to send back the dangerous Dewald
9:00 PM ET Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — Belinda Bencic rallied to beat second-seeded Paula Badosa 2-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4 on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Credit One Charleston Open. No. 4 Ons Jabeur also reached the final four in the season’s opening clay-court event, beating Anhelina Kalinina 6-3, 6-2. Also on
9:09 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods might be the biggest story in the 86th Masters. But everyone is chasing the hottest player on the planet, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, who has a 5-shot lead heading into Saturday’s third round at Augusta National Golf Club. Scheffler’s advantage matches the largest 36-hole lead in
7:30 PM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods and his rebuilt leg held up for another day at the Masters, overcoming a disastrous front nine to make the cut and enter the weekend nine shots off the lead. To watch him Friday, in pain yet still stoic, was to watch someone battle … the course,
8:04 PM ET Associated Press MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Chase Elliott won the pole Friday for the Saturday night race at Martinsville Speedway. The defending NASCAR Cup Series champion and current co-leader turned a fast lap at 96.151 mph in the new Next Gen cars to end co-leader Ryan Blaney’s string of three consecutive poles. Blaney
6:40 PM ET Minnesota State senior goalie Dryden McKay was named the winner of the Hobey Baker Award on Friday as the top player in NCAA Division I men’s hockey. McKay set NCAA records with 37 wins and 34 shutouts this season for a Mavericks team that finished 38-4 and is set to face Denver
6:01 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua will meet July 23 in a rematch for the unified heavyweight championship, likely in Saudi Arabia, sources told ESPN. When they met in September in London, Joshua entered with three heavyweight titles but Usyk wrested the championship in dominant fashion. The former undisputed cruiserweight champion
5:30 AM ET Sid LoweSpain writer There were two minutes to go and the most extraordinary story was about to be written, or so it goes. The football team from a tiny, unremarkable little town in Spain that had spent most of its history in the regional third tier and was playing its first Champions
5:50 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens re-signed middle linebacker Josh Bynes to a one-year deal, the team announced Friday, one week after missing out on Bobby Wagner. Bynes, 32, started 12 games last season for the Ravens, recording 76 tackles and two sacks. Undrafted in 2011, Bynes has totaled 553 tackles
Dutch cyclist Milan Vader is “stable” in hospital following a crash during the Itzulia Basque Country 2022. The incident involving the 26-year-old occurred during stage five of the race on Friday. Vader rides for the Jumbo-Visma team and they issued a statement after reports he had been seriously injured. “Following the reports about Milan Vader