9:00 AM ET There are days new Tennessee athletic director Danny White looks around his office and thinks to himself, “I still can’t believe I left.” Before coming to Knoxville, White spent six years transforming UCF into a nationally recognized brand — thanks in part to his decision to self-declare a football national championship off
Month: April 2021
12:46 PM ET Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain — Rafael Nadal brushed aside Cameron Norrie 6-1, 6-4 to ease into the semifinals of the Barcelona Open on Friday and moved closer to a record-extending 12th title at the event. After Nadal breezed through the first set, Britain’s Norrie won back a break in the second. Nadal,
Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne led his side’s bid to match Bangladesh’s mammoth score on a third day of batting domination in the first Test between the two nations on Friday. Karunaratne built an unbeaten 85 as Sri Lanka moved to 229 for three at the close, still needing 112 to avoid the follow-on after
9:34 AM ET A blockbuster welterweight championship rematch is now official. Champion Kamaru Usman and challenger Jorge Masvidal both successfully weighed in Friday morning for their title clash. Usman weighed 169.5 pounds, and Masvidal hit the mark at 170. Usman will defend his UFC welterweight title against Masvidal in the main event of UFC 261
Britain’s Simon Yates won his first event of the season with victory at the Tour of the Alps. The 28-year-old Team Bike Exchange rider had led the race since winning Tuesday’s second stage. He finished 58 seconds ahead of Spaniard Pello Bilbao with Russian Aleksandr Vlasov in third. German Felix Grossschartner won Friday’s fifth and
7:05 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. As the end of April nears, many teams around the NHL are down to a single-digit number of games remaining on the schedule. In other words, time is running out for clubs currently
Red Bull have recruited a senior figure from rivals Mercedes to lead their new Formula 1 engine programme. Ben Hodgkinson, head of mechanical engineering at Mercedes High Performance Powertrains, will become technical director at Red Bull’s equivalent department. It is being set up close to the chassis factory in Milton Keynes to take over the
Harbhajan Singh is in Mumbai with the Kolkata Knight Riders squad. (File pic)© AFP World Cup-winning spinner Harbhajan Singh is helping provide a mobile COVID-19 testing lab in Pune as the country deals with a surge of cases. Responding to a tweet by comedian and cricket talk show host Vikram Sathaye, praising him for the
7:00 AM ET The first-ever (and, most likely, the only) spring FCS playoffs are upon us, with eight games on Saturday, all on ESPN3. It has been a wild couple of months of wild finishes, ultracompetitive games, unexpected storylines — North Dakota State losing twice, VMI winning the Southern Conference, etc. — and, because this
7:15 AM ET Despite what you’ve seen and heard on social media and the exclamatory talk that has been tossed around outside the walls of team complexes in the weeks leading up to the 2021 NFL draft, a “riser” is not just a prospect who blew up at his pro day and posted ridiculous numbers.
7:13 AM ET Roman ModrowskiESPN.com It was March 16, 2019, and London’s O2 Arena was packed for a UFC Fight Night. Darren Till, a popular local fighter from Liverpool, was facing Jorge Masvidal in the main event. Till was favored to beat Masvidal and then face Ben Askren, who was in attendance, for a shot
8:23 AM ET It’s been quite a week if, like millions of football fans, you had to process the shock news that your favourite football club was in the process of breaking away to form a lucrative new European Super League. For supporters of the 12 would-be “founder” clubs, this was doubtless a source of
8:00 AM ET INVESTMENTS FROM AT least 15 current and former NFL players, including Von Miller, Nick Foles and Mark Brunell, were used in a complex investment program designed to profit at the expense of low-income borrowers, according to civil and bankruptcy court documents obtained by ESPN. The players invested in a now-defunct company that
4:45 PM ET CHICAGO — Count New York Mets slugger Pete Alonso in for this year’s Home Run Derby at hitter-friendly Coors Field. Alonso won the contest the last time it was held, in 2019, edging fellow rookie Vladimir Guerrero Jr. at Cleveland’s Progressive Field for his first derby title. “I’m all-in,” Alonso said Thursday
7:00 AM ET At this point, the international soccer Super League might go down as one of the biggest public relations fiascos in the history of sports. When fans, politicians, the media and FIFA all find themselves on the same side of an issue, something has gone terribly wrong. For the uninitiated: 12 of Europe’s
10:28 PM ET Terrence Clarke, a freshman guard for the Kentucky Wildcats this past season, died following a car accident in the Los Angeles area on Thursday, it was announced. Clarke’s mother was at his side when he died, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Clarke was 19 years old. Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant John
7:49 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. There’s not one guy in the 126-pound division right now better than Emanuel Navarrete. That includes Christopher Diaz, who challenges for Navarrete’s WBO featherweight world title on Saturday. No one’s going to beat Navarrete in 12 rounds, when he’s standing on his feet — and that includes the other
IPL 2021: Delhi Capitals all-rounder Axar Patel joined the squad after recovering from COVID-19.© Delhi Capitals/Instagram Delhi Capitals (DC) all-rounder Axar Patel joined the squad after recovering from COVID-19. DC posted on social media a video that showed Axar linking up with the squad after being in quarantine after having tested positive for the virus
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