1:49 PM ET What happened in the exhibition game broadcasts last week on ESPN was the equivalent of dropping a shovel into the ground and touching off a fountain of oil. About a dozen players wore microphones for three dozen innings and generated viral moments that will last — and shape the game’s future. We
Month: March 2020
12:01 AM ET Associated Press HONOLULU — Bob and Mike Bryan won the final Davis Cup match of their brilliant career to advance the United States into the final, beating Uzbekistan’s Sanjar Fayziev and Denis Istomin 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday. The victory gave the United States an insurmountable 3-0 lead. The Americans were the final
4:00 PM ET Rikki Soumpholphakdy The relationship between boxer and trainer is often put under a microscope. Sometimes it’s personal. Other times it’s strictly business. For Shakur Stevenson and many of his pugilist peers, they benefit from having a rare gem in Kompa Koroma, otherwise known as Coach Kay. The two met when Stevenson was
12:12 AM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Authentic led all the way to win the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths at Santa Anita on Saturday, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert a record seventh win in the Grade 2 race. Ridden by Drayden Van Dyke, Authentic ran 1 1/16 miles
11:05 PM ET NEW YORK — Heavyweight Robert Helenius, a big underdog, who had taken a beating for most of the first three rounds, rallied for a shocking fourth-round technical knockout of contender Adam Kownacki in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions on Fox card on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Mar 6, 2020 NEW YORK — Blue-chip heavyweight prospect Efe Ajagba faced perhaps his toughest and most experienced opponent in former world title challenger Razvan Cojanu, and Ajagba laid a beating on him on Saturday night. Ajagba scored two knockdowns and stopped Cojanu in the ninth round of the co-feature of the Premier Boxing Champions
9:08 PM GMT England coach Eddie Jones broke his own rule about never criticising match officials when he described the late red card for Manu Tuilagi as “absolute rubbish” and claimed England ended up playing against 16 men in their 33-30 Six Nations win over Wales on Saturday. 1 Related England looked to be cruising
2:00 AM GMT “We skipped uni for Beth Mooney,” read a placard at one of Australia’s group games at the T20 World Cup. From a squad that boasts superstars in the likes of Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning, and Alyssa Healy, not often does Mooney, the left-handed opener for Australia, occupy front of mind. That placard,
9:50 AM ET Nick DePaulaESPN While some players circle team matchups on the calendar, P.J. Tucker is known to also circle specific cities. He’ll plan to pack rare exclusives made for the University of Oregon in Portland, haul a stash of limited Kobe Bryant classics when in Los Angeles or break out more vibrant and
8:29 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Brandon Jones passed Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota teammate Kyle Busch with 20 laps remaining and pulled away Saturday at Phoenix Raceway for his second career NASCAR Xfinity Series victory. Rookie Harrison Burton finished second and Busch was third, giving Joe Gibbs Racing the top three finishers. Burton