8:30 AM ET Saturday night’s superfight at UFC 259 did not produce a double champion, but it did provide one of the fighters with a ticket to the ESPN pound-for-pound MMA rankings. Jan Blachowicz came away from the weekend still in possession of the UFC light heavyweight championship and as a new entrant in the
9:21 AM ET A University of Texas committee formed in November to investigate the history of “The Eyes of Texas” released a 58-page report Tuesday that says the school song was not written with racist intent, but acknowledges its first public performance was likely by performers in blackface during a minstrel show. The song, which
9:35 AM ET Ohio State has paused all football-related activities and closed its athletics administrative offices for one week following an increase in positive tests for the coronavirus, the university said in a statement on Tuesday. The Buckeyes said the decision to pause football activities and close the Woody Hayes Athletic Center offices was made
7:15 AM ET Player X is having a hard time. “I never thought I would be doing an interview like this,” he says. “But yeah, this season hasn’t been easy.” Player X is still on his entry-level NHL contract. He plays for a United States-based team but is from another country and is unsure when
8:16 AM ET FLINT, Mich. — It was a little past 8 p.m. on Friday and the music inside Claressa Shields’ dressing room started to heat up. She grabbed her portable speaker, thumbed with her phone and hit play. Cardi B’s “Up” came on. Shields turned her space into a dance party, twisting her body
8:39 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants and defensive lineman Leonard Williams are working on a long-term deal as the franchise deadline approaches, sources told ESPN. The deadline is 4 p.m. (ET) on Tuesday. Both parties would like to get something done, but the franchise tag is the likely option as
6:00 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Joe Douglas guarded the New York Jets‘ checkbook last season a lot better than his rebuilt offensive line protected the quarterback. The general manager finished his first full year on the job with nearly $27 million in unused salary-cap dollars, the second-highest total in the NFL — money
6:38 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots will be acquiring offensive tackle Trent Brown from the Las Vegas Raiders in a trade after agreeing to a restructured one-year contract worth up to $11 million with him, sources tell ESPN’s Field Yates. Brown, 27, previously played for the Patriots in 2018, starting every
6:30 AM ET Two stagnant programs, four with division title aspirations. The MAC East title race could be one of FBS’ more intriguing if: Kent State makes a few more stops, Miami overcomes a brutal road slate and Ohio is as strong as last season’s tiny sample suggested. There’s also a chance that Buffalo is
News “If you’re bowling first, it looks like an advantage is there for bowlers,” agrees Goswami There is some advantage to bowling first in Lucknow but not so much to justify first-innings scores of under 200, according to South Africa Women captain Sune Luus and India’s premier pace bowler Jhulan Goswami. India and South Africa