8:16 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Max Holloway has won an unprecedented 13 straight fights in the UFC’s featherweight division. He has dominated at 145 pounds for five years. Holloway, the champion of that weight class, admits now that he must leave featherweight in the future if he wants to achieve his ultimate goals. Holloway
Month: December 2019
8:01 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The New York Yankees have made signing right-hander Gerrit Cole their clear offseason priority and have ownership-level approval to offer him a record-setting deal, sources familiar with their plans told ESPN. The
7:26 PM ET The Portland Trail Blazers will amend Carmelo Anthony‘s contract so that it becomes fully guaranteed for the remainder of the season, league sources told ESPN. Portland had until early January to fully guarantee the deal for the season. Anthony had signed a non-guaranteed contract last month. “I thought it was remarkable what
7:15 PM ET Forward Gabriel Landeskog will return from a lower-body injury Thursday night when the Colorado Avalanche take on the Montreal Canadiens. Landeskog, 27, Colorado’s captain who missed 16 games, confirmed coach Jared Bednar’s decision before pregame warm-ups at Bell Centre. Throughout the course of the injury, the team was vague about details. Landeskog
6:58 PM ET Former two-division world titlist Carl Frampton has been diagnosed with fractures in both hands following his win against Tyler McCreary. Frampton dominated McCreary, knocking him down twice with body shots and winning a 10-round shutout decision in their junior lightweight bout on Saturday night on the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card
6:46 PM ET The Houston Rockets are officially protesting Tuesday’s 135-133 loss to the San Antonio Spurs, sources told ESPN, emphasizing that James Harden’s dunk not being counted as a basket was a misapplication of rules resulting in an incorrect score and not a judgment call by officials. The deadline to file a protest is
6:46 PM ET The Houston Rockets are filing an official protest regarding James Harden’s dunk that wasn’t counted in Tuesday’s 135-133 loss to the San Antonio Spurs, sources told ESPN. The deadline to file a protest is 48 hours after the game. Houston had been optimistic in the wake of the loss that the NBA
6:27 PM ET Former Auburn Tigers quarterback Joey Gatewood is transferring to Kentucky, he announced Thursday. Gatewood, who left Auburn’s program in late October after serving as the team’s backup quarterback, said on Twitter that he’ll be joining the Wildcats. He took an official visit to Kentucky last month. The 6-foot-5, 237-pound Gatewood redshirted last
11:00 PM ET College football rivalries have at times brought out the worst in fans. Georgia State coach Shawn Elliott and his 76-year-old parents, Charles and Barbara Elliott, experienced a much more refreshing side to the headline-grabbing nastiness that has tarnished some rivalries on Saturday following Georgia Southern’s 38-10 win over Georgia State in Statesboro,
5:41 PM ET NASSAU, Bahamas — Patrick Reed not only wants to impress the boss, he wants to win his tournament — and is on track to do so. Captain America, who stirred things up pretty good last year in France at the Ryder Cup and needed an at-large pick from captain Tiger Woods to