9:51 AM ET Umar Nurmagomedov, the cousin and teammate of UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov, will be unable to make his UFC debut Saturday because he’s been hospitalized with a staph infection, according to Khabib’s Instagram post. Umar, a bantamweight who is 12-0, was set to face Sergey Morozov in the early prelims of UFC
Month: October 2020
10:03 PM ET UFC featherweight Brian Ortega said he didn’t even want people to recognize him on Saturday, as he came off a nearly two-year layoff from the Octagon. It’s safe to say he succeeded. Fighting for the first time since he was badly outclassed in a UFC championship fight in late 2018, Ortega (15-1)
8:00 AM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, is one of more than 50 professional sports stadiums and arenas opening as a polling place this election season. Saturday and Sunday, Boston city residents lined up down the third-base side of the stadium to cast
7:14 AM ET AJ MassESPN Staff Writer Close Fantasy football, baseball and college basketball contributor. Author of book, “Yes, It’s Hot in Here.” To help you set your fantasy football lineups and to avoid starting a player who won’t be in the lineup, we’ll post fantasy-relevant updates and analysis here as NFL teams release their
7:49 AM BST We knew the All Blacks’ response would come. But it was inspired by perhaps an unlikely source as winger Caleb Clarke announced himself on the world stage with a brilliant tackle-shredding display in New Zealand’s 27-7 win over the Wallabies at Eden Park on Sunday. The 20-point victory — which extended New
6:00 AM ET Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. Cam’s kryptonite: Cam Newton‘s return to the Patriots this week from the reserve/COVID-19 list puts him in position to do something he has never accomplished before: Beat the Denver Broncos as a starting quarterback. Call it Superman’s kryptonite, if you
1:40 AM ET On a night full of top-tier college football matchups and MLB championship games, it was Teofimo Lopez Jr.’s upset victory over Vasiliy Lomachenko that stole the night. The last six rounds, in particular, were some of the best championship boxing rounds we’ve seen in a long time. Lopez walked away recognized as
2:40 AM ET Pedro GomezMLB Close ESPN’s Pedro Gomez covered the Oakland A’s home and away nearly every day from 1992-97 for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee and then became the national baseball writer and later a general columnist at the Arizona Republic before becoming an ESPN bureau reporter in 2003. SAN
6:47 PM ET Harry Kettle The coronavirus pandemic made the transfer market unlike any before it, but there was still plenty of action on Deadline Day. With the window closed across the major leagues in Europe, you can check out the latest major completed transfers across the globe. Barcelona eye Premier League duo The Mirror
1:30 AM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — We should’ve known all along that Nick Saban wasn’t going to miss a day’s work. He has always appeared more machine than man during his time in the public eye — a creature of routine and process who’d barely done worse than sniffle during his six national championship runs.