4:20 PM ET Ottman Azaitar has put the UFC’s lightweight division on notice, with a pair of first-round finishes in his first two fights. Azaitar (13-0) stunned 33-year-old veteran Khama Worthy (16-7) with a TKO finish just 93 seconds into their 155-pound contest on Saturday. The bout co-headlined UFC Fight Night, inside the UFC’s Apex
11:13 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Brad Keselowski entered NASCAR’s playoffs certain he has as good a chance at the Cup championship as favorites Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin. He even predicted he’d win at Richmond Raceway. His confidence was correct as Keselowski indeed won Saturday night at Richmond, the second playoff race,
6:24 PM ET Naomi Osaka trailed Victoria Azarenka by a set and faced a break point that would have put her down 3-0 in the second set of the US Open women’s championship on Saturday. And then the 22-year-old star rallied … big time. Osaka stormed back to win the second and third sets to
12:05 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Naomi Osaka walked back to where she had just clinched her second US Open win and laid on the ground. She had just won the US Open title, the third Grand Slam victory of her career, against Victoria Azarenka. But the smile had now faded from her face, and she
6:32 PM ET Steve KimESPN Nine months after suffering the only loss of his career, Egidijus Kavaliauskas returns to the ring to face Mikael Zewski in a 10-round welterweight battle that headlines a Top Rank card at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas on Saturday (ESPN+, 7:30 p.m. ET). Kavaliauskas (21-1-1, 17 KOs)
12:42 AM ET Saturday’s Michelle Waterson vs. Angela Hill bout wasn’t originally scheduled to be the Fight Night main event, but a positive COVID test scrapped the original headliner and pushed the strawweight fight to the top spot. And it delivered. The veterans put on a five-round slugfest that saw Waterson earn a split-decision win
12:35 AM ET Diego Rubio scored his first two goals of the season to fuel the Colorado Rapids to a 5-0 victory over Real Salt Lake in Sandy, Utah, on Saturday night. This marked the first win for Colorado in three meetings with their Rocky Mountain Cup rival this season. It also snapped a seven-game
12:27 AM ET Nick Saban spent the second Saturday in September coaching a scrimmage, then talking to the media through an Internet connection about a game that’s still two weeks away. Dabo Swinney checked in with ESPN’s College GameDay using FaceTime on his cell phone — which, inexplicably, he held, arm outstretched, the whole time
8:16 PM ET Associated Press EDMONTON, Alberta — Lou Lamoriello of the New York Islanders is the winner of the NHL’s Jim Gregory general manager of the year award. The league announced Saturday night that Lamoriello finished ahead of fellow finalists Julien BriseBois of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Jim Nill of the Dallas Stars.
7:40 PM ET Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Steve Stricker and Miguel Angel Jimenez shared the lead going into the final round of the Sanford International, with Fred Couples, Darren Clarke and Kevin Sutherland a shot behind after a low-scoring day. The only player at Minnehaha Country Club set to play next week in