Month: November 2021

6:37 PM ET Undisputed welterweight champion Jessica McCaskill will return to the ring to defend her titles on Dec. 4 against Victoria Bustos as part of the Devin Haney-Joseph Diaz undercard in Las Vegas. It’s the first fight in a long-term deal for McCaskill with Matchroom and the first fight she’ll have against someone other
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6:15 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Lightning star center Brayden Point will be sidelined indefinitely because of an upper-body injury. The two-time Stanley Cup champion Lightning announced the news during the first period Sunday against the Minnesota Wild. Point appeared to favor his left shoulder/arm area after crashing hard into the
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2:30 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Shawn Porter was stopped for the first time in his career Saturday, a 10th-round TKO vs. Terence Crawford on ESPN+ PPV, and now he is stepping away from boxing for good. Porter, 34, fought Crawford on even terms until he was floored twice in Round 10, summoning
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5:10 PM ET Catcher Pedro Severino and the Milwaukee Brewers are in agreement on a one-year, $1.9 million contract, sources familiar with the deal told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Sunday. The deal is pending a physical. Severino, 28, will join Omar Narvaez at catcher and has incentives in the deal that can earn him another
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5:25 PM GMT The England women’s rugby team completed an autumn clean sweep with an emphatic 89-0 thrashing of the United States on Sunday to extend their winning streak to 18 matches. The world’s top-ranked side, who crushed Canada 51-12 last weekend, fired a warning ahead of next year’s World Cup as Simon Middleton’s team
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4:22 PM GMT Ireland made it a clean sweep of Test victories this November as they followed up last weekend’s memorable triumph over New Zealand with a more routine 53-7 thrashing of an ill-disciplined Argentina at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday. After Mateo Carreras caught the hosts napping to give Argentina an early lead, Ireland
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4:14 PM ET ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Jonathan Taylor didn’t only carry the Indianapolis Colts back into the thick of the AFC playoff race, he likely also carried himself into the thick of the MVP race. Taylor had a career-high 32 carries for 185 yards and he became just the 18th player in NFL history
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1:05 PM ET The Sacramento Kings fired coach Luke Walton on Sunday, sources told ESPN. The Kings have lost seven of eight games and dropped to 6-11 on season — leaving them 12th in the Western Conference. Kings associate head coach Alvin Gentry — a five-time head coach in the NBA — is expected to
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12:43 PM ET Associated Press TURIN, Italy — If Alexander Zverev‘s performance this weekend is any indication, a lot can be expected from the third-ranked German in 2022. Zverev beat the top two players in consecutive matches to earn his second title at the ATP Finals. After eliminating No. 1 Novak Djokovic over three sets
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2:11 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Outfielder Seiya Suzuki will be posted Monday by his Japanese club and his rights will be available for bidding by the 30 Major League Baseball teams. MLB told its teams Sunday that the posting will start Monday morning and run through 5 p.m. ET on Dec. 22.
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12:52 PM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai took part in a 30-minute video call from Beijing with IOC officials and told them she was safe and well, the Olympic body said Sunday. The call came amid growing global alarm over Peng. Her appearance at a youth tennis event Sunday
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8:30 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent In an alternate universe, Mauricio Pochettino’s Manchester United have just cruised past Watford to keep pace with the Premier League leaders and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is preparing his Molde team for a trip to Brann. Instead, the reality is that Solskjaer, who was meant to hand over the reins to
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11:12 AM ET Tiger Woods posted video of himself hitting balls for the first time since his February car crash that caused several injuries to his right leg and foot. The video posted Sunday to Woods’ social media accounts constitutes the first official update he has shared since April. The three-second clip includes the caption,
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