Month: June 2018

11:19 PM ET Welterweight up-and-comer Rashidi Ellis will fight Alberto Mosquera in a scheduled 10-round main event of the June 29 edition of Golden Boy Boxing on ESPN, Golden Boy Promotions announced Thursday. The card will take place at the Oasis Arena in Cancun, Mexico, and will be televised on ESPN and ESPN Deportes beginning
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12:00 AM ET Paul LukasESPN.com Close Sports journalism’s foremost uniform reporter ESPN.com columnist since 2004 Also blogs at uni-watch.com The 2017-18 NHL season was pretty sedate from a uniform standpoint. As part of the league’s transition from Reebok to Adidas, teams were restricted to home and road uniforms, with alternate or third jerseys temporarily mothballed.
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6:56 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports SAN FRANCISCO — Defending NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. wasn’t surprised that NASCAR decided against changing any of the aerodynamic rules this year amid too much uncertainty as to the on-track
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5:41 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — General managers looking to make moves at the NHL draft found out the salary cap for next season will be $79.5 million, an increase of $4.5 million from last year. The NHL and NHLPA announced the cap and $58.8 million salary floor Thursday. With the first round of
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4:03 PM ET ESPN staff Anne Van Dam leads the Ladies European Thailand Championship after the first round after making a flying start amid the humidity. The Dutchwoman edged out Aunchisa Utama for the clubhouse lead after carding a five-under 67 despite double bogeying the par-4 15th. Utama, a local of the Phoenix Gold Golf
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5:55 PM ET Ariel Helwani Former NFL player turned MMA fighter Greg Hardy suffered a knee injury in an arena football game Saturday night. Hardy, who also currently stars for the Richmond Roughriders of the American Arena League, was hurt in the first quarter of the Roughriders’ 57-43 win over the Carolina Energy. Hardy is
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3:18 PM ET ESPN staff Former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka is out of the WTA Mallorca Open after a straight sets defeat to Lucie Safarova. Safarova, a Wimbledon semifinalist back in 2014 looked at ease, coping with everything that her opponent could offer up – with Azarenka only hitting 14 winners in the entire
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