1:03 PM ET When boxing manager/adviser Al Haymon created Premier Boxing Champions in 2015, he spent hundreds of millions of investor dollars buying time across numerous television networks, including ESPN, NBC, CBS and Fox, hoping to entice one or more of them to eventually pony up rights fees for top-level fights. Although most of those
Month: September 2018
2:06 PM ET The fight for or against penalty minutes as a standard category for fantasy hockey has become pretty polarizing. But the holdover from traditional fantasy hockey setups that riles me up even more is the delineation between left wing and right wing. Why on earth do we do this? There is no difference
11:52 AM BST KweséESPN Staff South Africa’s Sevens team will be boosted by the return of one of their most experienced players, Chris Dry, who has declared himself fit for the start of the 2018-19 World Rugby Sevens Series. Dry, who missed eight out of 10 tournaments last season due to a knee injury, is
11:21 AM ET LAS VEGAS — It’s the final week of Darren Till‘s first UFC championship fight camp, and there’s an interesting dynamic playing out between two opposites. Outside the cage, there is a sophisticated, round-the-clock effort taking place to make Till as small as possible. Or, to be more accurate, as light as possible.
2:37 PM ET Tuesday’s news that Furniture Row Racing, which won the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series title with Martin Truex Jr., will close after the 2018 season has evoked a gamut of emotions — from surprise to anger to sadness. ESPN.com’s panel of experts goes beyond the emotions to discuss how the team’s ceasing of
10:34 AM ET ESPN Fantasy The PGA Tour heads to Pennsylvania for the third round of the FedExCup playoffs in what figures to be a hotly contested BMW Championship. Our ESPN and FantasyGolfInsider experts have picked the players they believe have the skills to succeed and provide big fantasy point totals. Pick to win Tony
4:35 AM ET A round-up of the best radio soundbites from the Italian Grand Prix, where Lewis Hamilton spoiled Ferrari’s party and Kevin Magnussen and Fernando Alonso’s mini rivalry turned nuclear. “Aggghhh…. I think Magnussen wanted to race into Turn 1! Haha!” Fernando Alonso laughs about his incident with Kevin Magnussen at the end of
10:21 AM ET Plenty of talking points emerged from Ferrari’s home defeat at Monza. ESPN’s F1 editor Laurence Edmondson, associate editor Nate Saunders and F1 writers Kate Walker and Maurice Hamilton offer their opinions below. Is Sebastian Vettel too accident-prone to win this year’s title? Vettel now trails Hamilton by 30 points in the race
8:33 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Clutching his young daughter in his arms, LeBron James said on Tuesday that he `stands with Nike,’ a clear reference to the company’s Colin Kaepernick ad campaign. LeBron James told a crowd at Harlem’s Fashion Row, where he was receiving an award for his style and philanthropy,
8:59 AM ET Don Nelson couldn’t seem to get the message to his pass-first, shoot-last point guard to sink in. Steve Nash‘s extreme unselfishness was a real problem for the Dallas Mavericks, a franchise that at the time was nearing a full decade without a playoff appearance. Nelson knew Nash, who was booed by home