NICE — England opened its 2019 Women’s World Cup campaign with a narrow 2-1 win over Scotland on Sunday. England took a comfortable two-goal lead at halftime, but as Scotland found some tempo, England found itself on the backfoot. Claire Emsile’s goal with 11 minutes left made it a nervy finish. It was a case
Month: June 2019
2:27 PM ET England’s keeper Jordan Pickford scored and saved in a shootout as they beat Switzerland 6-5 on penalties to finish third in the Nations League on Sunday after the game ended goalless following extra time. Pickford produced an outstanding save to keep out Josip Drmic’s spot kick low to his right to win
2:03 AM ET Marc RaimondiESPN CHICAGO — Henry Cejudo has an Olympic wrestling gold medal. He has the UFC flyweight title. And now, one of the best combat sport athletes of all time has added some more gold to his collection: the UFC bantamweight title belt. Cejudo, 32, stopped Marlon Moraes via TKO with ground
3:47 AM ET From front to back, UFC 238 was one of the promotion’s strongest cards of the year thus far. Henry Cejudo walked away with his second UFC title, Valentina Shevchenko retained her flyweight belt with a devastating knockout and Aljamain Sterling and Petr Yan made their respective cases for the next bantamweight title
2:14 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN [embedded content] CHICAGO — Tony Ferguson left United Center on Saturday night a triumphant winner, his victory streak extended to 12 and his spot among the top contenders in the UFC’s lightweight division preserved. If a punch fell a few inches to the right, though, his UFC 238 could have
VALENCIENNES, FRANCE — In the end, it was the Italian Azzurre, not the Waltzing Matildas, who danced. As the Australian players walked to their sideline and shook hands with their coaches and the game’s referees, visibly stunned after a 2-1 defeat in their opening match of the Women’s World Cup on Sunday, the Italian players
1:59 AM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Max Scherzer shrugged off taking a comebacker off his calf and got out of the only inning in which the San Diego Padres threatened. Scherzer struck out nine in seven shutout innings and Brian Dozier hit a two-run home run for his 1,000th career hit to lead
REIMS, France — They wear the same uniforms. They are around the same age. They occupy the same space on the field, literally the middle ground between those tasked with producing goals and those expected to prevent them. And none of them has been here before, not like this. Any number of superficial strands connect
9:25 PM ET Mexico defeated Ecuador 3-2 in an international friendly on Sunday in front of a raucous crowd at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The game served as the final warm-up for both sides before their respective contintental tournaments. Ecuador will start Copa America play next week (watch all matches in the U.S. on
12:52 AM ET Steve KimESPN Oscar Valdez retained his WBO featherweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision victory over Jason Sanchez in an entertaining but one-sided fight at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday. All three judges scored the fight for Valdez 117-110 and 118-109 (twice). Sanchez (14-1, 7 KOs) was certainly