1:08 PM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN “Remember, I was supposed to fight him after he fought Ken Shamrock,” Chuck Liddell recounted on Monday, looking back with bemused fondness on his age-old rivalry with Tito Ortiz and its bitter beginnings. “After I fought Vitor Belfort, he jumped in the ring and said he was going to kick
3:55 AM ET Japanese MMA star Norifumi ‘Kid’ Yamamoto has died at the age of 41. Yamamoto, who was one of the sport’s most popular fighters in the mid-2000s, revealed in an Instagram post in August that he had been diagnosed with cancer. Krazybee, Yamamoto’s Tokyo gym, announced he had passed away on Tuesday Sept.
11:45 PM ET Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya spent Monday taking a victory lap after his star fighter, Canelo Alvarez, narrowly outpointed Gennady Golovkin to win the unified middleweight world championship in the year’s biggest fight on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. But De La Hoya was also
12:31 PM ET In an alternate universe somewhere, sellers of confetti and party hats in Italy are preparing for a business boom. Sebastian Vettel is about to end Ferrari’s long wait for a championship. Sebastian Vettel’s championship hopes are fading fast. Here’s what he has to do to overhaul the deficit to Lewis Hamilton and
5:08 AM ET Lewis Hamilton says his healthy lead of the championship is a reward for not putting himself in some of the problematic positions Sebastian Vettel has found himself in this year. A closer look at how Ferrari’s race weekend unravelled in Singapore while Mercedes went from strength to strength. Sebastian Vettel’s championship hopes
Craig Burley believes PSG’s inability to close down and apply pressure in midfield was what cost them against Liverpool’s potent attack. The guys respond to your tweets about Liverpool’s win over PSG, including Salah’s struggles, assigning blame for PSG and comparing the two No. 9s. ESPN FC’s Craig Burley and Paul Mariner break down Liverpool’s
5:35 AM ET Connor McDonagh Following his win at the Singapore Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes is bringing its ‘A game’ to every race weekend and Ferrari has to do the same if it is to wrestle back the momentum in the race for this year’s championship. At a track where Mercedes was expected
5:29 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Geoff Cook, the club’s long-standing director of cricket, is to step down from his role at the end of the season as part of a staff restructure. Cook’s departure comes hot on the heels of the retirement of Paul Collingwood, the club’s longest-serving player, who was one of a raft
3:04 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Joc Pederson, who accumulated 10 total bases in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 8-2 surge over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night, has started only 51 percent of the time since the beginning of August. Max Muncy, who essentially put the game away with a 400-foot three-run homer, has been
2:29 AM BST Last week not a single Springbok made our team of the week following their defeat at the hands of the Wallabies in Brisbane. This week, however, there are South Africans sprinkled all over the show after their courageous victory over the All Blacks. Find out who made the cut for Round 4!