7:32 PM ET Canadian promoter Yvon Michel’s purse bid has been ratified by the WBC as the winner for the right to promote the light heavyweight world championship fight between Adonis Stevenson and Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Michel, who promotes longtime champion Stevenson, bid $2.101 for the promotional rights at the purse bid on Monday in Manhattan
Month: July 2018
7:36 PM ET Associated Press Vegas Golden Knights forward William Karlsson is among 43 NHL players seeking salary arbitration after he finished third in the NHL in scoring with the expansion franchise last season. Two more Golden Knights, defenseman Colin Miller and forward Tomas Nosek, also are on the list of players electing to have
7:34 PM ET Jacksonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette signed a rookie contract worth $27 million last summer, but he hasn’t forgotten his roots. The former LSU star saw a tweet from a Tigers student requesting help with her tuition and asking for contributions to a GoFundMe site, with donations of $1, $5, anything. I
7:26 PM ET LONDON — If tennis were played on paper, Angelique Kerber‘s second-round match against 18-year-old American Claire Liu and defending champion Garbine Muguruza‘s meeting with unseeded Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck would have been fly-bys at best. Kerber is a former world No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champ. Liu is ranked No. 237
5:34 PM ET ESPN News Services LONDON — After advancing in the men’s doubles at Wimbledon on Thursday, Jack Sock finally discussed his opening-round singles defeat and the fine that followed. On Tuesday, having earned a two-set lead against 81st-ranked Matteo Berrettini of Italy, Sock fell to a 6-7 (5), 6-7 (3), 6-4, 7-5, 6-2
3:00 AM ET ECB Reporters Network Yorkshire 200 for 3 (Lyth 92*, Tattersall 53*, Brook 44) beat Durham 156 for 4 (Stokes 90*, Brookes 3-21) by 44 runsScorecard Yorkshire comfortably defended a 201 target against a Ben Stokes boosted Durham side at Emerald Headingley to make a winning start to this summer’s Vitality Blast. England
4:51 PM BST The Stormers’ master of many trades Pieter-Steph du Toit will achieve a personal milestone when he leads the side against the Sharks at Newlands on Saturday, bringing down the curtain on the Super Rugby season for the battling Cape Town side. Do Toit will be captain in the absence of Springboks skipper
5:39 PM ET ESPN News Services The University of Kansas hired former Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long as the school’s new AD on Thursday. Long signed a five-year contract worth $1.5 million annually, with Kansas Athletics Inc. paying $1.3 million of the total and the university paying the remaining $200,000. He has terms written into
Jul 6, 2018 Chris M Jones Dave Williams is taking nothing for granted despite his Glendale Raptors team heading into the inaugural Major League Rugby championships final as firm favourites. Rugby union in the United States is enjoying a much deserved period in the sporting spotlight thanks to recent U.S. Eagles wins over Scotland and
3:33 PM ET There may be no historic parallel for the bizarre Kawhi Leonard situation, which veered away from San Antonio when LeBron James, the game’s greatest star, ventured solo to the game’s starriest franchise. Potential suitors for Leonard have no clue how healthy he is, when they may gain permission to talk with his