7:01 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — Maurice Hooker silenced Terry Flanagan’s hometown crowd with a split decision victory to lift the vacant WBO world junior welterweight title
5:45 PM ET Daniel Ricciardo said sixth on the grid for the Canadian Grand Prix felt better than it looked on paper after a weekend spent chasing his tail on set-up. Ricciardo, who capped a dominant performance in Monaco with a win two weeks ago, has struggled for pace since arriving at the Circuit Gilles
10:19 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Johnny Manziel was 12-of-20 for 88 yards and a touchdown, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats scored 30 straight points to beat the Montreal Alouettes 30-15 on Saturday in the final preseason game for both teams. The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner at Texas A&M also ran for 19 yards. He
12:44 AM ET ESPN News Services Justify defied all the odds on his way to achieving Triple Crown immortality. The late bloomer won the 150th Belmont Stakes in New York by 1¾ lengths on Saturday, leading all the way to give the sport its 13th Triple Crown champion. American Pharoah ended a 37-year drought in
5:09 PM ET Kimi Raikkonen said he was only “a bit off” the ideal line before the mistake which compromised his final qualifying attempt in Canada and saw him drop to fifth on the grid. Sebastian Vettel says building his confidence after a scrappy Friday was the key to securing his first pole position at
3:00 AM ET Sri Lanka 185 and 176 for 3 (K Mendis 94*, Mathews 31) need another 277 runs to beat West Indies 414 for 8 dec and 223 for 7 dec (Powell 88, Kumara 3-40) Kusal Mendis gets down for a sweep AFP Setting Sri Lanka a monumental 453 to chase before removing three
4:52 PM ET Connor McDonagh Sebastian Vettel says building his confidence after a scrappy Friday was the key to securing his first pole position at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve since 2013. The German appeared to struggle through much of Friday practice leaving him initially doubtful whether a second victory in Canada was possible on Sunday.
2:59 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Somewhere buried in one of his mom’s moving boxes in her Pennsylvania home, ready to be shipped to Arizona, sits one of Chase Edmonds‘ school assignments from 12 years ago. Moms like to keep everything their children write, but this was different. Edmonds, then 10, made two statements on
5:43 PM ET George Dobell Eoin Morgan has scotched rumours that Jofra Archer could feature in England’s World Cup campaign. As well as denying any knowledge of any attempt to change the eligibility requirements – Barbados-born Archer, who plays for Sussex, is not scheduled to qualify for England until 2022 – Morgan suggested that it
4:32 PM BST Australia coach Michael Cheika said his team’s work ethic was the key factor in their 18-9 victory over Ireland in Brisbane on Saturday but warned his players they would have to step up to another level next week. Cheika blooded three new caps and got some big performances from his more experienced