The race for the 2018-19 Premier League crown promises to go down to the proverbial wire. A Raheem Sterling brace set up Manchester City’s 3-1 win over Crystal Palace, Liverpool responded with a thrilling 2-0 defeat of Chelsea at Anfield. Brilliant stuff. Lower down in the table, Manchester United eked out a 2-1 win over
Month: April 2019
3:42 AM ET DENVER — Derrick White saw an opening, rose up and threw down a thunderous one-handed dunk all over Paul Millsap that shook the Pepsi Center in the third quarter Saturday. But that wasn’t even the San Antonio point guard’s biggest play of the night. Redeeming himself after a turnover he committed with
New York Red Bulls midfielder Kaku was shown a red card for kicking a ball into the stands that struck a fan late in his team’s 2-2 draw at Sporting Kansas City on Sunday night. Kaku, whose full name is Alejandro Romero Gamarra, fired a ball from close range into the first few rows of
Apr 13, 2019 Jos Buttler is considering a move back to Somerset, the club he supported as a boy and where he developed as a young player. Buttler, who is out of contract at Lancashire at the end of this season, left Somerset at the end of the 2013 season – after he had played
11:08 PM ET Sixteen-year-old Gianluca Busio scored in his third straight game to salvage Sporting KC a 2-2 draw against the visiting New York Red Bulls on Sunday. Busio scored on a deflection in the 88th minute, touching home a shot by Graham Zusi that found its way through a scrum of players following a
6:51 PM ET ATLANTA — Khalil Rountree Jr. dominated Eryk Anders in every facet on Saturday at UFC 236, cruising to a unanimous decision win (30-26 on all three judges scorecards). From the start, Rountree attacked Anders with hard inside leg kicks that had his opponent’s thigh a bright red after the first round. Rountree
2:19 AM ET The 12-round super middleweight bout between Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin and “Golden” Caleb Truax ended in a no-contest at the end of the second round on Saturday after an accidental head-butt opened a deep gash between Truax’s right eye and nose. The ringside doctor ruled that the cut was down to the
10:27 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Dustin Poirier and Israel Adesanya walked out of the Octagon on Saturday night as champions, and it had only a little to do with the shiny new title belts they carried with them. Their performances in the main event and co-main of UFC 236 in Atlanta made them interim champs,
1:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN Jaime Munguia should consider himself very fortunate, if not downright lucky, to have retained his WBO junior middleweight title versus Dennis Hogan. While the three judges in Monterrey, Mexico, had him winning by scores of 114-114, 115-113 and 116-112, the majority of observers believe the challenger should have had his
1:22 AM ET Appearing in his first UFC title fight, Dustin Poirier defeated Max Holloway on Saturday by unanimous decision to win the interim lightweight championship at UFC 236 in Atlanta. The judges each scored it 49-46 in favor of Poirier. Poirier snapped Holloway’s 13-fight win streak and ended Holloway’s bid to become the fourth