12:14 AM ET WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade will defend his title April 17 against mandatory challenger Liam Williams at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, Andrade’s promoter, Matchroom, announced Saturday night. The fight, which will air on DAZN, will be Andrade’s first in 15 months, since he landed a ninth-round technical
Month: March 2021
7:45 PM ET Associated Press Marvin Hagler, the middleweight boxing great whose title reign and career ended with a split-decision loss to “Sugar” Ray Leonard in 1987, died Saturday. He was 66. Wife Kay G. Hagler confirmed the death on Facebook on the verified Marvelous Marvin Hagler Fan Club page. “I am sorry to make
3:22 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Following a 31-point loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday night, Warriors star guard Stephen Curry expressed frustration with his team’s recent play, acknowledging it’s time for Golden State to stop having “embarrassing” performances. “We’ve got to play better,” Curry told reporters after the 128-97 defeat. “We have
6:53 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN The NBA trade market had been quiet in 2021, but the unofficial tipoff to deadline season arrived last week. The Detroit Pistons sent Svi Mykhailiuk and a 2027 second-round pick to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Hamidou Diallo. Two lottery-bound teams swapping bench players headed for restricted free
7:49 AM ET Claressa Shields, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and now two-division undisputed champion, is ESPN’s new No. 1 women’s pound-for-pound fighter. Shields dominated Marie-Eve Dicaire in a 10-round unanimous decision victory to unify all four major junior middleweight belts on March 6. Shields had already collected all four middleweight world titles with a
6:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys are poised to do anything they want in NFL free agency. It just might not be what Cowboys fans want them to do. The Cowboys saved $15.5 million on what quarterback Dak Prescott would have counted on the franchise tag compared to what he will count
6:30 AM ET The MAC West did its best to pack a full season’s worth of MACtion and tight finishes into an abbreviated half-season. Five of Ball State’s six regular-season games were decided by one score, and CMU, WMU and EMU each played four such games. BSU won four of its five close games and
7:00 AM ET Matt Campbell and his assistants weren’t going to pitch their players on staying at Iowa State. When the NCAA in August approved a blanket waiver, allowing all 2020 fall sports seniors to return in 2021, Iowa State’s coaches took a hands-off approach. “There was not one ounce of us trying to say,
9:46 AM ET What’s next for Cristiano Ronaldo? It is the question being asked in Italy, Spain, France, England and even the United States as speculation continues to surround the Juventus forward and his club future. Reports in Italy earlier this month suggested that Juventus, whose finances have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic,
3:42 AM BST Melbourne prop Pone Fa’amausili faced many challenges with unexpectedly being on the road last year for six months, including clothing his hulking frame. Standing 196cm and weighing 130kg, Fa’amausili was caught short when the Rebels’ dash interstate to beat border closures in mid-2020 turned into six months. As well as being part