6:15 AM ET Welterweight contender Conor Benn has revealed he failed two voluntary drug tests ahead of his 157-pound catchweight bout with Chris Eubank Jr earlier this month. Benn (21-0, 14 KOs) had been due to fight Eubank Jr. in a highly anticipated extension of their fathers’ infamous 1990s rivalry, but Benn tested positive by
6:52 AM ET ON THE MORNING of Dec. 3, 2017, Geno Smith took the field as the starting quarterback for the New York Giants. He was greeted by Giants fans who had made the 3,000-mile trip to the Oakland Coliseum. “That’s my quarterback! That’s my quarterback!” they screamed. Except they weren’t talking about Smith. Giants
8:00 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Nick Bjugstad took the ice for the first time at Mullett Arena on Thursday, the college hockey rink that will house the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes for at least the next three seasons. He noticed its roughly 5,000 seats. The ones fans will pay not less than $100 to occupy,
Jos Buttler backed the decision to call Australia’s clash against England off without a ball being bowled, saying conditions weren’t “fit to play”, and that “every bowler who bowled” would have had concerns over the playing surface. “They [the umpires] had some big concerns and, I think, rightly so,” Buttler said, after a series of
8:18 AM ET Cesar Hernandez Pachuca trounced Toluca through a whopping 5-1 score line in Thursday’s first leg of the Liga MX final. With goals from Romario Ibarra, Gustavo Cabral, Nicolas Ibañez and Mauricio Isais, Los Tuzos took a sizable lead in the two-legged championship series. In Toluca’s packed and raucous Estadio Nemesio Diez, Pachuca
6:51 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens New Villarreal coach Quique Setien said he should have left the Barcelona job after just one month in charge due to difficulties in fulfilling the role how he wanted to. Setien, 64, said certain habits had set in that he was unable to change and made him compromise
2:58 AM ET Connor O’Halloran Bournemouth are 14th place in the Premier League. Christopher Lee/Getty Images Bournemouth will no longer play Kanye West’s song “Power” as players walk out for matches, a source has told ESPN. The move comes after the sportwear brand Adidas cut ties with the American rap artist on Tuesday after he made
4:00 AM ET Antonio Conte celebrates a year in charge of Tottenham Hotspur next week, but all signs are beginning to suggest it won’t be a happy anniversary. The former Juventus, Chelsea and Inter Milan coach has been a success so far, in relative terms at least, by salvaging a seemingly hopeless situation when arriving
3:18 AM ET Alpine have won their bid to overturn Fernando Alonso’s penalty at the U.S. Grand Prix after the double world champion had lost seventh place as stewards upheld a protest from Formula One rivals Haas about the safety of his car. Alonso had dropped out of the points in Austin last Sunday when
2:15 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Still dressed in full uniform, even after several of his teammates had already departed for the night, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady stared dejectedly at the floor of his locker Thursday night at Raymond James Stadium. With his arms folded and his face flushed, Brady still very much