6:30 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Victory over England’s Tony Bellew on Saturday will not only boost Oleksandr Usyk’s profile, it will also take him a step closer to a
Month: November 2018
1:00 PM ET Pretty soon the 2018 NASCAR Cup series season will be finishing up and we’ll be reflecting on the season that was as well as looking ahead to 2019. Time continues to move in a linear fashion, after all. Side note, did you know Friday (Nov. 9) will mark 100 days until the
7:30 AM ET THESE ARE SAVAGE TIMES for NBA defenses. The league is in the midst of a glorious offensive revolution, with a legion of shooters with the added gasoline of small ball and nurturing rule changes that prevent old-school defensive tactics. The result: Scoring has gone nuclear. Consider that between 2014 and ’16, teams
The FC crew laud Barcelona’s Champions League performance, in a draw with Inter that could just have as easily been a victory for the Spanish side. Editor’s note: This article has been translated from an original piece on ESPN Deportes. MILAN — Memories of Ronaldo Nazario, the Brazilian legend, were evident at San Siro on
7:39 AM ET NBA InsidersESPN.com Do the Los Angeles Lakers (4-6) need to make moves? How can LeBron James, Magic Johnson and Luke Walton right the ship? And how good is this team at its peak? Our NBA experts answer the big questions about L.A. 1. What’s your biggest takeaway from the Lakers’ first 10
9:03 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Smith had a message recently for Patrick Mahomes, as the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback continues to pile up big numbers in his first season as starter. “Tell him to slow down,” said Smith, who was the Chiefs’ starter the past five seasons before he was traded to
8:05 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Two months ago, the biggest thing standing between Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston and a lucrative contract extension was off-the-field issues. Winston had wrapped up his best preseason as an NFL quarterback, completing 73 percent of his passes with zero turnovers, and was preparing to serve a three-game
3:00 AM ET England won the toss and chose to bat first against Sri LankaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details England won the toss and elected to bat in the first Test in Galle, handing both opener Rory Burns and wicketkeeper-batsman Ben Foakes Test debuts. Batting first is a substantial advantage at this venue. The last
9:28 AM ET Emily KaplanESPN The Chicago Blackhawks fired coach Joel Quenneville on Tuesday. Quenneville, who won three Stanley Cups with the Blackhawks, was the longest-tenured coach in the NHL. He had been with the team since 2008. Chicago named their AHL coach, Jeremy Colliton as the new coach. Colliton, 33, becomes the youngest head
8:13 AM ET METAIRIE, La. — The New Orleans Saints had already established themselves as one of the NFL’s all-time great offenses for a decade under Sean Payton and Drew Brees before receiver Michael Thomas arrived in 2016 and running back Alvin Kamara arrived in 2017. But with all due respect to Marques Colston, Jimmy