12:26 PM ET Former Olympic champion Johnny “Lam” Jones, a two-sport star at the University of Texas and the second overall pick in the 1980 NFL draft by the New York Jets, died Friday morning after a long battle with cancer, the school announced. He was 60. Jones is one of the most celebrated athletes
Month: March 2019
8:00 AM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN Think of the Boston Bruins. Think of the standard-bearers for that organization in recent years. The hulking presence of Zdeno Chara springs to mind, as does the machine-like dominance of Patrice Bergeron. There’s Brad Marchand, with his antics and his goal scoring. There’s Tuukka Rask, who’s either maligned or beloved,
11:26 AM ET The UFC hits London’s O2 Arena this weekend, with a welterweight main event between England’s Darren Till and Jorge Masvidal. Till, 26, is looking to reassert himself as a future star after suffering the first loss of his career to Tyron Woodley in September. Masvidal, 34, is looking to take a shortcut
11:49 AM ET ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Mikey Garcia, having already won world titles in four weight divisions and universally regarded as one of boxing’s best fighters in the world pound-for-pound, wanted more. Garcia wanted a title in a fifth weight division. He wanted a big seven-figure payday. And he wanted to test himself against another
11:19 AM ET Mike McTigue, left, and Battling Siki exchange punches during their St. Patrick Day’s fight in 1923 in Dublin. Getty Images Most of the fans were already inside La Scala Theatre when a bomb exploded on nearby Moore Lane, sending shards of glass from the hall’s skylight raining down. It was March 17, 1923,
11:00 AM ET The 2019 NHL playoffs are under a month away, and the races are heating up. Who will be the biggest X factor for their team in the stretch run? Who will just make the postseason, and who is headed home? Which teams will be on upset watch in Round 1? Our team
11:54 AM ET PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — For the first time in his career at the Players Championship, Tiger Woods put two balls in the water at the par-3 17th hole, ruining an excellent start to his second round. Woods pulled his first shot on the hole surrounded by water with a short iron,
11:16 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — A Chilean tennis player has been banned for life for trying to bribe an opponent. The Tennis Integrity Unit says 31-year-old Mauricio Alvarez-Guzman offered his opponent 1,000 euros ($1,130) to lose a set during a 2016 tournament in Germany. Alvarez-Guzman was also found guilty of bribing his way
Who is the best basketball player on each Top 25 football team? This one is sure to cause some debate in the locker rooms. But as we get ready to crown a national champion in basketball, it’s time to appreciate the athletes who can do it all. Here are the two-sport stars, the freak athletes
12:19 PM ET The NFL has suspended Cleveland Browns running back Kareem Hunt for the first eight games of the upcoming season for violating its personal conduct policy, the league announced. The NFL said that Hunt’s suspension stems from a February 2018 incident in which he shoved and kicked a woman during an early-morning altercation