Jan 18, 2023 Mike CoppingerESPN Stephen Fulton and Naoya Inoue have agreed to terms for a unified 122-pound title fight in the spring in Japan, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The fight for Fulton’s WBC and WBO junior featherweights titles is being targeted for May, sources said, though a date has not been set. The
10:07 PM ET William E. Ricks NBA draft prospect Victor Wembanyama continues to captivate the basketball world. The 7-foot-4 forward with an 8-foot wingspan showed during his latest game why he is projected to go No. 1 overall in the upcoming draft. Editor’s Picks Wembanyama’s Metropolitans 92 team faced Fos-sur-Mer in LNB Betclic Elite action,
10:15 PM ET HOUSTON — Charlotte Hornets point guard LaMelo Ball left Wednesday night’s 122-117 win over the Houston Rockets after spraining his left ankle again. Ball was injured when teammate P.J. Washington landed on him after jumping to try for a rebound with about nine minutes left in the third quarter. Ball appeared to
3:21 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Phoenix Suns forward Cameron Johnson is expected to make his return from a knee injury on Thursday against the Brooklyn Nets. Johnson’s return would be welcome good news for the Suns, who have been decimated by injuries and have fallen to 21-24 for the season, which ranks 12th
10:11 PM ET Samantha Stosur’s decorated doubles career is almost over following a first-round exit from the Australian Open with Frenchwoman Alize Cornet. The retiring great and Cornet lost 6-3 6-4 to the Chinese-Taiwanese pairing of Zhaoxuan Yang and Hao-Ching Chan on Thursday. Stosur, who is quitting professional tennis after the Open, remains alive in
8:29 PM ET The PGA Tour’s West Coast swing begins at The American Express in La Quinta, California, on Thursday. These past two weeks might serve as a microcosm of what is to come on the PGA Tour. South Korea’s Si Woo Kim, who won The American Express in 2021, returned to the winner’s circle
Jan 17, 2023 UFC flyweight Jeff Molina is suspected of having “substantial involvement” in a betting scheme currently being probed by multiple government entities, Nevada deputy attorney general Joel Bekker said Tuesday at the Nevada State Athletic Commission meeting. The NSAC temporarily suspended Molina last month, as first reported by ESPN, though the commission did
2:48 PM ET Referees will explain VAR decisions to stadium crowds and television audiences in a 12-month trial starting at next month’s FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco, soccer’s law-making body said on Wednesday. The International Football Association Board (IFAB) failed to agree, however, on trialling rugby-style temporary concussion substitutes. The players’ union FIFPRO had
7:26 PM ET Manchester City have topped the Deloitte Football Money League for the second year in a row as the world’s highest revenue-generating club in the 2021-22 season in which fans returned to stadiums as COVID-19 restrictions were eased. Abu Dhabi-owned City generated total revenue of €731 million ($790.65m), followed by Real Madrid (€714m)
9:13 PM ET Associated Press Former United States coach Jurgen Klinsmann said the fallout from the public dispute between coach Gregg Berhalter and the family of young star Gio Reyna is “obviously not looking good” for U.S. soccer. Klinsmann, who coached the men’s national team from 2011-2016, said Wednesday he felt the problems between Berhalter