8:32 PM ET The fight between secondary heavyweight world titlist Manuel Charr and mandatory challenger Fres Oquendo, already long overdue, has been canceled. The fight was on at least its third date — April 6 in Munich — but was canceled when Oquendo failed to sign the contract by Friday’s deadline, Patrick English, the attorney
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7:54 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Denny Hamlin won the Daytona 500 for the second time in four years, leading a 1-2-3 sweep for Joe Gibbs Racing. The victory Sunday honored J.D. Gibbs, who died last month after battling a degenerative neurological disease. J.D. Gibbs co-founded the race team with his father
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8:33 PM ET ESPN News Services “The Big One” came late in the Daytona 500. Paul Menard triggered a 21-car accident shortly after a restart with 10 laps to go in “The Great American Race.” Menard turned Matt DiBenedetto, who slammed into the wall and started a chain reaction. It brought out a red flag
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7:03 PM ET Associated Press UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Reilly Opelka won his first ATP Tour title Sunday, beating qualifier Brayden Schnur 6-1, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (7) in the New York Open. The 6-foot-11 Opelka hit 43 aces for the second straight match, the final one to finally end things after an overturned call had helped
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6:00 PM ET Associated Press Jimmie Johnson‘s chances of winning a third Daytona 500 ended with a strange accident on pit road. Johnson was running near the front of the field and trying to pit when Cody Ware and his Rick Ware Racing teammate B.J. McLeod started a wrecked that damaged Johnson’s No. 48 Chevrolet.
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6:14 PM ET Associated Press NAPLES, Fla. — Miguel Angel Jimenez won the Chubb Classic on Sunday for his seventh PGA Tour Champions title, beating Bernhard Langer and Olin Browne with a 5-foot par putt on the first hole of a playoff. Jimenez closed with a 5-under 66 at The Classics at Lely Resort to
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5:42 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN The Carolina Hurricanes‘ elaborate home-ice victory celebrations have attracted a vocal minority of detractors, and none have been as vocal as Canadian curmudgeon Don Cherry. The “Hockey Night In Canada” commentator has ripped the choreographed on-ice celebrations in the past, but he went off on the team when the Hurricanes
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