3:17 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Robeisy Ramirez and Isaac Dogboe will meet in a featherweight bout with title implications on April 1 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sources told ESPN. The Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ main event is expected to be contested for either the vacant WBO featherweight title or the interim belt. Emanuel Navarrete, the
Month: January 2023
1:59 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara, the 2022 National League Cy Young winner, was awarded a key to the city of Miami from Mayor Francis Suarez on Tuesday. “His dedication has influenced hundreds, if not thousands of people in our community,” said Suarez, with Alcantara standing to his right and
1:41 PM ET Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson has a new home. The ninth-year player purchased a sprawling estate in his hometown of San Antonio. It is a 10,106-square-foot home in the Dominion neighborhood of San Antonio. Clarkson, who has been with the Jazz since 2019 and previously played for the Los Angeles Lakers and
2:26 PM ET Stephen HolderESPN INDIANAPOLIS — Colts general manager Chris Ballard, admitting he “failed” by taking a flawed approach to the 2022 season, laid out a plan Tuesday that includes considering Jeff Saturday as a candidate in the team’s coaching search and displayed a willingness to trade up to the first pick in the
2:17 PM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Bears general manager Ryan Poles backed Justin Fields as Chicago’s starting quarterback for 2023 and said he would have to be “absolutely blown away” to take a quarterback with the No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft. “Yeah. We had good conversations,” Poles said during his season-ending
2:36 PM ET Ohio State offensive tackle Paris Johnson Jr., a potential top-10 pick, is headed to the NFL draft. Johnson, projected by ESPN as the No. 9 overall prospect and No. 2 offensive tackle, announced his decision Tuesday on social media. The 6-foot-6, 310-pound Johnson earned consensus All-America honors and was first-team All-Big Ten
1:06 PM ET Associated Press Retired catcher Stephen Vogt is joining the Seattle Mariners as a bullpen and quality control coach, fulfilling his goal to go right into coaching. The 38-year-old Vogt called it a career after his 10th major league season in 2022. He will join the staff of manager Scott Servais, whose club
1:55 AM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — For so long, Georgia was the flagship program of the really good but not quite great. It produced a few decades of pretty nice seasons ending in pretty nice bowl games played by a lot of really good players dressed in red, white and black. But the Dawgs were
Arthur was Pakistan’s head coach from 2016 to 2019. Under his coaching, Pakistan won the 2017 Champions Trophy and also reached the No. 1 position on ICC’s T20I rankings. However, he lost the job after Pakistan’s fifth-place finish at the 2019 ODI World Cup. On December 27, ESPNcricinfo reported that PCB chairman Najam Sethi was
10:47 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones has backed Mike McCarthy one more time. Asked on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas on Tuesday whether a wild-card loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on “Monday Night Football” could impact McCarthy’s status as head coach, Jones was emphatic. “No. I