7:00 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Michael Conlan will go from fighting at the iconic Madison Square Garden to a public park on Saturday (Aug. 3), but for the Irish
Month: August 2019
8:31 AM ET Arizona Coyotes top defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson was bitten on the hand by his family dog in May but is expected to be fine for the beginning of the season. According to reports, the 28-year-old was briefly hospitalized and received four stitches. The dog was euthanized because it had been involved in similar
8:17 AM ET Former NFL running back and ESPN analyst Merril Hoge is suing Monsanto, saying its herbicide Roundup caused his cancer. Hoge, 54, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2003, underwent treatment and has been in remission. In the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Idaho, Hoge claims that he began
6:12 AM BST Just one round remains in this year’s shortened Rugby Championship, with the Springboks, All Blacks and Wallabies all still a chance to lift the trophy in a little over a week’s time. South Africa head to Argentina for a date with the Pumas in Salta, while the Bledisloe Cup heads to Perth
6:45 AM ET THE UNMISTAKABLE WAIL of electric guitar prompted Nick Nurse to bound to his feet. The grand finale he’d been waiting on was finally here, and the Toronto Raptors coach waved his arms to the heavens, gleefully swaying to the beat with the rest of the packed house at the Tropicana in Las
8:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — If the Los Angeles Dodgers, owners of baseball’s best record, don’t win this year’s World Series, the focus — fair or not — will probably shift back to July 31, 2019, the day the team’s front office failed to secure the high-end reliever it so desperately needed and coveted.
12:01 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Ottawa Senators are circumventing the salary cap. OK, that’s a bit of hyperbole, which I believe is legally allowed when opining about hockey in early August. It’s more accurate to say that the Ottawa Senators are circumventing “the spirit” of the salary cap. They currently have a projected cap
6:34 AM BST Rugby World Cup-winning coach Bob Dwyer says it’s not too late for Wallabies selectors to be experimenting but the threat posed by outside centre Tevita Kuridrani is in danger of being wasted. After starting their Rugby Championship campaign with an away loss to South Africa and a home win over Argentina, Australia
6:02 AM ET World No. 2 Naomi Osaka has said that she has not had fun playing tennis since she won the Australian Open in January. Osaka lost in straight sets 7-6, 6-4 in the first round of Wimbledon to Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan in July, becoming the first No. 2 seed to lose in
Brian McBride explains how playing Liga MX teams mid-season in the Leagues Cup will either help or hurt the four MLS teams involved. MEXICO CITY — Queretaro coach Victor Manuel Vucetich believes signing Guillermo Ochoa to replace the outgoing Agustin Marchesin would be a step down in quality for Club America. A possible return for