11:52 PM ET Steve KimESPN Joshua Franco captured the WBA junior bantamweight title by defeating previously undefeated Australian champion Andrew Moloney in a hard-fought unanimous decision Tuesday night at the fan-free MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. Punch Stats Punches Moloney Franco Total landed 191 231 Total thrown 663 789 Percent 29% 29% Jabs
6:31 PM ET These are the things I can’t wait to see: Byron Buxton running out a triple. Mike Trout‘s quick swing, so quick it looks like he flips the ball over the center-field fence. Francisco Lindor‘s smile as he crosses home plate and wades into a dugout of happy teammates. Nolan Arenado intercepting a
1:17 AM ET Steve KimESPN Joshua Franco made a tremendous impact in the first world title fight since boxing returned to action, winning the WBA “regular” junior bantamweight belt from the previously undefeated Andrew Moloney on Tuesday in Las Vegas. Franco was not undefeated, like Moloney, or even prospects like Miguel Contreras and Rolando Vargas,
11:55 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Santa Anita had 17 people test positive for the coronavirus during its recently completed meet, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said. The Arcadia racetrack was on Monday’s list of nonresidential settings with five or more confirmed cases of the disease. The list includes food
6:21 PM ET ESPN News Services Baseball is officially back. The Major League Baseball Players Association and the league ironed out the final details Tuesday ahead of a return to play that will see players report to camps by July 1 and play a 60-game season starting July 23 or 24 in empty ballparks. The
11:37 PM ET Free-agent guard Tyler Johnson has agreed to a deal with the Brooklyn Nets, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Tuesday. Johnson, 28, was waived by the Phoenix Suns in February. He is in the final year of a four-year deal. Johnson averaged 5.7 points in 16 minutes per game for the Suns,
8:39 PM ET As the Milwaukee Bucks prepare to enter the NBA’s post-pandemic Disney enclave, there’s no sense in dwelling on how their historic season would have continued to unfold had the coronavirus not brought the world to an abrupt halt. Could the Bucks have added to their gaudy league-leading point differential (+11.2)? To their
12:50 AM ET Free-agent guard JR Smith, out of the NBA for two years, has emerged as a leading candidate to replace Avery Bradley on the Los Angeles Lakers‘ roster for the season’s Orlando restart, sources told ESPN. Lakers president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka and Smith’s agent, Rich Paul of Klutch Sports, were discussing
10:49 PM ET Los Angeles Lakers guard Avery Bradley has opted out of playing in the NBA’s Orlando, Florida, restart of the season, he told ESPN on Tuesday. Bradley, who started 44 games for the Lakers this season, informed team management of his decision. The Lakers will be able to sign a replacement player for
© BCCI Cheteshwar Pujara has resumed training thrice a week at his academy in Rajkot, along with a few Saurashtra team-mates. In an ideal world, he would’ve been in England, playing for Gloucestershire in the county championship. However, Covid-19 threatens to leave Pujara without competitive cricket for 10 months, with India’s next Test assignment scheduled