Month: April 2019

12:56 AM ET Rich Franklin is the latest inductee to be added to the UFC Hall of Fame Class of 2019. During the UFC 236 broadcast on ESPN+, UFC announced that Franklin, the former UFC middleweight champion, will join Michael Bisping for induction at a ceremony in Las Vegas on July 5, during international fight
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Apr 14, 2019 ATLANTA — The hype is real. Just 14 months after making his UFC debut, Israel Adesanya is a middleweight champion, and he had to take out an absolute monster in Kelvin Gastelum to get it done. Adesanya (17-0) defeated Gastelum (16-4) via unanimous decision to claim the UFC’s interim 185-pound championship Saturday.
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11:57 PM ET Emily KaplanESPN Toronto Maple Leafs center Nazem Kadri could be facing yet another postseason suspension. Kadri received a five-minute major and a game misconduct for a high hit on Boston Bruins winger Jake DeBrusk late in the third period of Game 2 in the teams’ first-round series. The Bruins won 4-1 to
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12:33 AM ET A few days before Claressa Shields met Christina Hammer for the undisputed women’s middleweight world championship on Saturday, Shields made clear how the fight would go and what she wanted people to say when it was over. “When I beat Christina Hammer on Saturday, I want everyone’s headline to say, ‘Shields nails
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10:48 PM ET SHANGHAI, China — At the conclusion of pre-season testing in Barcelona, the general consensus was that Ferrari had a significant pace advantage over the rest of the field. The SF-90 looked to be the benchmark car with both one-lap and long run pace, and with that, Ferrari became the clear favourites to
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10:57 PM ET OAKLAND, Calif. — Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant and LA Clippers guard Patrick Beverley were ejected in the fourth quarter of the Warriors’ 121-104 Game 1 win in Saturday night’s Western Conference quarterfinal after receiving two pairs of double technicals for repeatedly jawing at each other. The initial set of double
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