Month: September 2019

2:24 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The latest hit to the New York Giants’ wide receiving corps comes with Sterling Shepard being ruled out for Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills with a concussion. Shepard was injured in last week’s season-opening loss to the Dallas Cowboys. He led all Giants receivers by playing 99%
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1:50 PM ET Tiger Woods will be in Melbourne, Australia for the Presidents Cup as captain of the United States team in December. What remains to be decided is if he will participate as a player. But Woods provided some interesting fodder this week when he wrote an update for the Presidents Cup website in
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1:17 PM ET Dan Rafael Close ESPN Senior Writer 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA Today Steve Kim Middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez finally has an opponent to fight this fall, but it won’t be a title defense. Instead, Alvarez, who decided
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Sep 13, 2019 Middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez will climb two weight divisions to challenge light heavyweight world titlist Sergey Kovalev in a fight that was finalized Friday. They will meet Nov. 2 (DAZN) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Alvarez did not demand a catchweight in an attempt to drop Kovalev
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1:05 PM ET The UFC’s all-action main event for UFC Vancouver is official. Donald Cerrone and Justin Gaethje both made weight for their headlining lightweight bout Friday. Cerrone hit the scale at 155.5 pounds and Gaethje weighed in at the same, 155.5 pounds. The UFC Vancouver main card airs Saturday at 8 p.m. ET on
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12:48 PM ET Two South Carolina legislators are planning to be next in a recent movement of lawmakers attempting to give college athletes more opportunities to earn money while in school. State Sen. Marlon Kimpson said he and Rep. Justin Bamberg plan to introduce a bill in January that would allow college athletes to profit
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12:15 PM ET Guard Shaun Livingston, who won three NBA championships with the Golden State Warriors during his 15 seasons in the league, announced his retirement Friday. Livingston, who was waived by the Warriors on July 10, made his announcement on Instagram. View this post on Instagram After 15 years in the NBA, I’m excited,
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12:00 PM ET BEIJING — From the minute Team USA lost to France in the quarterfinals of the FIBA World Cup earlier this week, USA Basketball had to begin preparing itself for 10 months from now and the Olympics in Tokyo. Fair or not, that is shaping up to be a referendum on the state
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