7:51 AM ET Derek Brunson smiles and looks off into the distance. He’s thinking about all of the world-class opponents he has competed against during his nine-year career. In just his third UFC fight, Brunson took on 2000 Olympic wrestling silver medalist Yoel Romero. Half of his 10 most recent fights have come against opponents
Month: September 2021
4:30 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen This transfer window has been incredible. Given the challenges of the last 18 months amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crisis that has ensued as a result, nobody really thought anything would happen at all. 2 Related According to Transfermarkt, the English Premier League led the way by spending
1:13 AM BST Liam Napier Strength in depth is a pillar that underpins the All Blacks, one set to be severely examined as they confront 12 Tests in the next 10 weeks. Traditionally if the All Blacks don’t hurt opposition with their starting team they have an equally dynamic threat waiting on the bench. Lose
6:45 PM ET Despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost every major club in Europe made a big-money signing in the just-closed transfer window and there were plenty of records broken, with the Premier League leading the way with over £1.3 billion spent. While Real Madrid weren’t able to get a last-minute deal for
Liam Plunkett is set to leave English cricket at the end of the current season.© Surrey/Instagram Surrey and England fast bowler Liam Plunkett will leave the club and English cricket at the end of the current season after a three-year-long stint. Surrey announced on Tuesday that the pacer will be leaving the club at the
3:05 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Olympic gold medalist Alexander Zverev opened his bid for a second straight US Open final appearance with an impressive win, needing only 1 hour, 40 minutes to beat Sam Querrey 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 on Tuesday in a first-round match. Zverev, the No. 4 seed from Germany,
11:35 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com NEW YORK — For a moment on Tuesday night, it seemed as if the opening round of the US Open could be the site of Novak Djokovic‘s latest implosion. Playing 18-year-old qualifier Holger Rune, who was making his major main draw debut, Djokovic dominated from the start and rolled to
10:04 PM ET Texas A&M is finalizing a new contract extension for football coach Jimbo Fisher that will increase his average annual salary to more than $9 million, sources told ESPN. Fisher, entering his fourth season at Texas A&M, originally signed a 10-year, $75 million contract when he was hired away from Florida State after
11:49 PM ET The Cleveland Cavaliers agreed to a one-year, non-guaranteed deal with center Tacko Fall, his agents — Bill Duffy and Justin Haynes — told The Athletic. Fall, 25, spent his first two NBA seasons with the Boston Celtics, averaging 2.7 points and 2.6 rebounds in 26 total appearances. At 7-foot-5, he became an
10:30 PM ET LAS VEGAS — UFC president Dana White will inevitably be faced with some difficult decisions this year on Contender Series. But the first fight of the season sure didn’t present him with one. Light heavyweight prospect A.J. Fletcher (9-0) made White’s job easy on Tuesday, as he knocked out Leonardo Damiani (10-3)
10:00 AM ET NFL NationESPN Teams in the NFL are required to cut their rosters to 53 players by 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Cuts come earlier this season as teams had three preseason games — not four — to accommodate the 17-game regular season schedule. The biggest names let go are New England Patriots
7:35 PM ET ESPN News Services ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Hockey is returning to the University of Alaska Anchorage after donors, including the NHL’s newest team, raised over $3 million after the program was eliminated. “It’s a great day to be a Seawolf,” UAA chancellor Sean Parnell said Tuesday when announcing the team would return to
2:02 PM ET Francisco Lindor and Javier Baez apologized to New York Mets fans on Tuesday, saying they were wrong for giving thumbs-down gestures after getting booed in recent games. “It does not look good on our part,” Lindor said. It reached a boiling point within the organization when Baez made the gesture to the
1:26 PM ET ATLANTA — An updated fan conduct policy could see spectators ejected from PGA Tour events for disrespectful behavior, including shouts of “Brooksy” that have gained considerable attention recently because of an ongoing spat between Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka. “Fans who breach our code of conduct are subject to expulsion from the
6:55 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Oscar Valdez’s A-sample tested positive for phentermine, a central-nervous stimulant prohibited by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association, multiple sources tell ESPN. Valdez is scheduled to defend his WBC 130-pound title against Robson Conceição on Sept. 10 in Tucson, Arizona, a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ main event. The WBC will hold
5:06 PM ET Alex Kirkland Julien Laurens Antoine Griezmann is set to leave Barcelona and return to Atletico Madrid, sources have told ESPN. Pedro Salado/Quality Sport Images/Getty Images Antoine Griezmann is set to rejoin Atletico Madrid from Barcelona in a €10 million ($12m) loan deal with an option to stay permanently for around €40m ($47m), multiple