Month: October 2020

7:25 AM ET LeBron James has lived through many NBA Finals games in which he’s played great and lost. It’s one of the stories of his career. But the Game 5 duel James staged with Jimmy Butler in the Miami Heat‘s season-saving 111-108 victory Friday over the Los Angeles Lakers instantly goes in the pantheon
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Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock wins his second world title at the Mountain Bike World Championships as he seals victory in the U23 cross country race. WATCH MORE: Pidcock wins E-MTB at World Championships Watch live coverage of the Mountain Bike World Championships on the BBC Sport website, app and connected TV this weekend. Available to
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Watch as Italy’s Eva Lechner and Australia’s Rebecca McConnell battle it out in a ‘monster’ sprint for the silver medal in the women’s cross country race at the Mountain Bike World Championships. WATCH MORE: Pidcock wins U23 cross country world title Watch live coverage of the Mountain Bike World Championships on the BBC Sport website,
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Britain’s Simon Yates is out of the Giro d’Italia after testing positive for coronavirus. The Tirreno-Adriatico champion will not start Saturday’s eighth stage of the Grand Tour. Yates, 28, was tested after he “developed very mild symptoms” following Friday’s seventh stage, his Mitchelton-Scott team said. Team staff and riders have also received rapid tests and
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12:47 AM ET Steve KimESPN Emanuel Navarrete defeated Ruben Villa by unanimous decision to win the vacant WBO featherweight title Friday night at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. Navarrete, a former junior featherweight world titlist, was able to win the fight on the strength of two knockdowns — in the first and
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2:10 PM ET Two of the best grapplers in the UFC’s women’s strawweight division will meet in December. Top prospect Mackenzie Dern and former Invicta FC champion Virna Jandiroba have verbally agreed to fight each other at UFC 256 on Dec. 12, sources confirmed to ESPN. No location has been made official yet for that
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11:00 PM ET MLB InsidersESPN It came down to a winner-take-all between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays to determine the last spot in the next round of the MLB playoffs, but the final four teams for the League Championship Series are officially set. Here are the stars, turning points and takeaways from
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11:33 PM ET Goaltender Corey Crawford signed a two-year deal with the New Jersey Devils Friday night. The contract carries an average annual value of $3.9 million. The news comes just a day after the Chicago Blackhawks formally parted ways with Crawford, who had been Chicago’s starting goaltender since the 2010-11 season. Crawford, who was
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11:55 PM ET Brian Ortega‘s most-tenured coach won’t be able to corner him for a huge fight next week. Rener Gracie, the well-known Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach and member of the world-renowned Gracie family, tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and was unable to make the trip with Ortega to Abu Dhabi, Gracie announced Friday night
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9:55 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Patrick Cantlay has played the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open so well that he wasn’t the least bit concerned when he was stuck in neutral Friday. Four straight birdies later, he was right up at the top again. Cantlay ran off four straight birdies at the midway
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9:04 PM ET Klara Spilkova won’t be around for the weekend of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, missing the cut by 1 shot after a rare 2-stroke penalty was assessed for slow play. While players are put on the clock often in professional golf — with the threat of a penalty if they don’t pick
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