1:19 AM ET Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Michael Rothstein Close ESPN Staff Writer Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Once again, Canelo Alvarez
Month: December 2020
Dec 19, 2020 One of the most highly anticipated junior featherweight bouts has finally been rescheduled for next month. On Jan. 23, Angelo Leo (20-0, 9 KOs) will defend his WBO junior featherweight title against Stephen Fulton (18-0, 8 KOs) in a bout between two undefeated 26-year-olds that was originally scheduled for Aug. 1 but
Dec 19, 2020 The rematch that was eight years in the making is now official. Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez and Juan Francisco Estrada will meet on March 13 in a title unification fight, Matchroom Boxing announced on Saturday night. Gonzalez owns the WBA belt in the 115-pound division and Estrada holds the WBC title in that
Dec 19, 2020 For now, the only action between welterweight champions Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford is limited to verbal sparring. The latest installment in their war of words came on Saturday night. In an interview with DAZN, Spence said a potential unification fight against Crawford could happen in 2021. But if that were
12:59 AM ET Boxing’s biggest superstar Canelo Alvarez put on a dominant show Saturday night to cap the 2020 major fight slate, cruising to an unanimous decision win over previously undefeated champion Callum Smith and winning the WBA, WBC and The Ring magazine super middleweight titles. The scorecards read 119-109, 119-109 and 117-111, all for
8:00 PM ET NFL NationESPN Week 15 saw the return of Saturday football, with a pair of games that showcased two of the league’s best teams. The Green Bay Packers, despite some second-half struggles, and Buffalo Bills flexed in front of a national audience that could also see them make deep runs into next month’s
12:35 AM ET Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford will attempt to play Sunday against the Tennessee Titans with torn rib cartilage, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Lions listed Stafford as questionable with a rib and right thumb injury, but Stafford plans to play through any pain he has. Stafford suffered a rib cartilage
12:04 AM ET Russell Westbrook drove the lane, found Thomas Bryant open for an easy dunk while the Washington Wizards‘ big man was fouled and then immediately ran to Bryant to scream his approval. In his first game with the Wizards, Westbrook only logged 17 first-half minutes in Washington’s 99-96 victory over the Detroit Pistons.
7:20 PM ET Canelo Alvarez meets WBA super middleweight titlist Callum Smith in the main event of Saturday’s DAZN card at the Alamodome in San Antonio. Alvarez (53-1-2, 36 KOs) hasn’t fought since an 11th-round TKO victory over Sergey Kovalev in November 2019. This is his first fight since he became a free agent in
The Sydney Cricket Ground is scheduled to host the third Test from January 7-11.© Instagram Cricket Australia Sunday said they were pressing ahead with plans to the hold the third Test against India in Sydney despite a growing coronavirus outbreak in the city. A COVID-19 cluster has risen to 68 cases since it emerged on
10:43 PM ET Geoff Neal chased Stephen Thompson down near the cage. When he got close, Thompson ripped off a lightning-quick punching combination and then angled off before Neal could even start throwing punches. That sequence — Thompson playing matador and Neal the hapless bull — occurred over and over again Saturday in the main
10:55 PM ET Rose Bowl officials announced Saturday that the College Football Playoff semifinal scheduled for the Rose Bowl will be moved to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The announcement came just hours after multiple outlets reported the Rose Bowl was denied a special exemption from the state of California to allow a few hundred
11:35 PM ET ESPN’s panel of Ariel Helwani, Brett Okamoto, Marc Raimondi and Jeff Wagenheim breaks down the biggest stories coming out of Saturday’s UFC Fight Night, including Stephen Thompson‘s convincing unanimous-decision win over Geoff Neal and two former champions earning key victories. Helwani: “Wonderboy” is no stepping-stone Considering what Geoff Neal overcame just three
LAS VEGAS — If Jose Aldo is showing any signs of slowing down at age 34, it was not apparent this weekend in Las Vegas. Aldo (29-7) snapped the longest skid of his career on Saturday, as he picked up his first win in four appearances by defeating Malon Vera (18-7-1) via unanimous decision. All
5:45 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods has a notoriously bad back, but it was his son, Charlie, who might have been feeling the pain Saturday after carrying his dad for most of the first round of the PNC Championship. Charlie Woods, 11, made his debut in the tournament reserved for major champions and
8:23 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball payrolls plunged to $1.75 billion during the pandemic-shortened season from $4.22 billion, and the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers led with $98.6 million — the smallest for the top spender in 20 years. Base wages for 40-man rosters tumbled to $1.54 billion, according
3:49 PM ET LIVERPOOL, England — As first anniversaries go, Mikel Arteta could definitely have asked for a better way to mark one year in charge of Arsenal. Yet all he got on Saturday was a seventh defeat in 10 Premier League games and a run of results that marks the club’s worst start to
7:07 PM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — He walked in the birdie putt and looked like he had been doing so forever, the couple dozen fans surrounding the ninth green at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club chuckling at what they were witnessing. Charlie Woods looked like a mini pro golfer out there, all the mannerisms on display.
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