1:22 PM ET Marc RaimondiESPN LAS VEGAS — The two title fights for UFC 239 are now official, as the competitors for the five-round championship bouts made weight Friday at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino. Jon Jones weighed in right on the mark at 205 pounds for his light heavyweight title defense against
Month: July 2019
1:10 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Columbus Blue Jackets have re-signed restricted free agent defenseman Scott Harrington to a three-year contract. The contract is worth $4.9 million with an annual salary cap hit of $1.63 million, a source told The Associated Press. The team didn’t announce terms of the deal. The 26-year-old
2:40 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Mike Sullivan is sticking around to see if he can get the Pittsburgh Penguins back to the Stanley Cup. The club announced Friday that it has signed Sullivan — who guided the Penguins to championships in 2016 and 2017 — to a four-year contract extension that runs through
11:38 AM BST It looks like it happened ages ago but it has been only four years since Jaguares joined Super Rugby. The Argentine franchise quickly gained confidence in the competition and will now play an unprecedented final against New Zealand’s Crusaders, three season on from making the quarterfinals. The 2019 season, under new head
9:34 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Jon Jones and Amanda Nunes both have headlining roles at UFC 239 on Saturday. Jones is regarded by many as the top pound-for-pound men’s fighter ever. Nunes has that same distinction among women. Do their UFC 239 peers agree with that? ESPN asked them that and seven other questions
9:01 AM ET The New York Knicks are the favorites to win the championship — the Las Vegas Summer League championship. The Las Vegas Summer League tips off Friday with a 10-game slate, highlighted by a matchup between the New Orleans Pelicans and and the Knicks (9:30 p.m., ESPN). No. 1 overall NBA draft pick
8:00 AM ET The third, and biggest, of the NBA’s summer leagues tips off Friday. Once again, the eyes of the NBA world cast their gaze upon Las Vegas, where all 30 NBA teams will be joined by national teams from China and Croatia to give you all the basketball you can handle over the
8:00 AM ET The All-Star break is right around the corner (already?), but first we’ve got one more weekend of games as teams try to end the first half on an up note. Here’s what we’ll have our eyes on: The Rockies and Diamondbacks, two National League wild-card contenders, tangle this weekend in Arizona, with
8:38 AM ET Milwaukee Brewers slugger Christian Yelich has no concerns about his swing heading into the All-Star Home Run Derby, so it makes sense that he’s confident everything will be fine after the showcase. “Basically, Home Run Derby is batting practice,” Yelich told reporters Thursday. “It’s just trying to hit home runs with every
12:29 AM ET Jed Collins is uniquely qualified to offer money advice to NFL rookies. Before he began his second career as a financial adviser, Collins spent seven years bouncing around the NFL with nine different teams as a journeyman fullback. His most prominent stretch came with the New Orleans Saints from 2011 through 2013,