Month: October 2020

12:21 PM ET Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the latest voice to criticize the growing number of championships in boxing. In an interview ahead of a title fight between Gervonta Davis and Leo Santa Cruz, Mayweather chastised those in boxing for the litany of title belts throughout the sport, especially the sanctioning bodies with multiple champions
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5:40 PM BST England’s Six Nations warm-up match against the Barbarians on Sunday is in doubt after a number of the invitational side’s players breached COVID-19 protocols, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) announced on Thursday. Eddie Jones’ England team were due to face the Barbarians at Twickenham prior to their final Six Nations game against
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4:53 PM ET Tottenham Hotspur handily beat LASK Linz 3-0 in their Europa League group stage opener on Thursday night in north London. Spurs started brightly and found their opener shortly before the 20-minute mark when debutant Carlos Vinicius squared for his Brazil countryman Lucas Moura, who beat LASK keeper Alexander Schlager for the early
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4:23 PM ET Graham HaysESPN.com Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. The Portland Thorns have acquired World Cup winner and former NWSL MVP Crystal Dunn in a series of moves that also involved the North Carolina Courage and OL Reign, the club announced
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2:50 PM ET Arsenal defeated Rapid Vienna 2-1 in their Europa League group stage opening match on Thursday, rallying on second-half goals from David Luiz and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Taxiarchis Fountas gave the Austrian side the initial lead six minutes after halftime but the Gunners came from behind to snatch the win. Luiz scored in the
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4:54 PM ET Associated Press ELMONT, N.Y. — A backstretch worker at Belmont Park caused the death of a $200,000 racehorse by releasing the filly onto blacktop, where she fell and broke her leg, prosecutors said Thursday. The worker released the horse in retaliation for being fired. Ramzan Antooa, 38, released the 2-year-old filly named
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5:28 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — In 2017, Sam Darnold was the college player who intrigued the New York Jets‘ quarterback-starved fan base. Now Darnold is experiencing that phenomenon from the other side. As the only winless team, the Jets could be in position to select Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence with the No. 1
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4:44 PM ET The Las Vegas Raiders will place four starting offensive linemen and safety Johnathan Abram on the reserve/COVID-19 list after all five players were deemed high-risk contacts Thursday, sources told ESPN’s Paul Gutierrez, confirming multiple reports. Center Rodney Hudson, guards Gabe Jackson and Denzelle Good, tackle Kolton Miller and Abram all missed their
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