12:01 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — The 2022 PFL season is officially off and running. And for the second consecutive year, so is lightweight fan favorite Clay Collard. Collard (21-9) earned 3 points in the PFL lightweight standings on Wednesday, by defeating Jeremy Stephens (28-20) via unanimous decision. The 155-pound bout was incredibly entertaining, as
Month: April 2022
5:56 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent MANCHESTER, England — Pressure? What pressure? Manchester City watched Liverpool take top spot in the Premier League table on Tuesday night and then promptly claimed it back. For now it’s as you were in the title race with six games to go, although Pep Guardiola and his players were reminded
7:29 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — The U.S. Capitol was briefly evacuated Wednesday evening after police identified an aircraft that they said posed “a probable threat” — but the plane was actually carrying members of the U.S. Army Golden Knights, who then parachuted into the Washington Nationals‘ baseball stadium for a pregame demonstration.
7:52 PM ET Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya has been accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed Wednesday against him and his tequila brand Casa Mexico, according to court documents obtained by ESPN. A female former employee of Casa Mexico alleges in the filing that De La Hoya sexually harassed and sexually assaulted
7:37 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Nevada is in the market for a new athletic director. Athletic director Doug Knuth is out at the Mountain West Conference school, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The university was expected to make the change official later in the day. Knuth has been at Nevada since 2013, and his hires
3:29 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Dwayne Haskins’ wife told a 911 dispatcher that the quarterback was walking to get gas on the morning he was struck and killed by a dump truck on a Florida highway, audio released by the Broward County Sheriff’s office revealed Wednesday. Kalabrya Haskins told the 911 dispatcher that her husband
1:56 PM ET ESPN tennis analyst Pam Shriver said Wednesday that she was in what she called “an inappropriate and damaging relationship with my much older coach” that began when she was 17 and lasted for five years. Shriver, in an interview with ESPN’s Outside the Lines as well as a first-person story and podcast
7:01 PM ET Associated Press Bob Babich, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame who played linebacker in the NFL for the Chargers and Browns, has died. He was 74. Babich died April 3 at his home in Clairemont, California. His death was reported by the National Football Foundation on Wednesday. A native
The oversized snowflakes fell softly and silently, settling among the pines like a picturesque Christmas scene. By the roadside, spectators in heavy winter coats watched team cars and motorbikes struggle up one of Liege-Bastogne-Liege’s countless climbs, tyres spinning in the slush as they pursued one man on a bike. It was April 1980 and Bernard
2:43 PM ET Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker is likely to miss Games 3 and 4 against the New Orleans Pelicans with a mild right hamstring strain, but he hasn’t been ruled out for the rest of the opening-round Western Conference series, sources told ESPN. The Suns were still evaluating results of an MRI on
6:21 PM ET LONDON — One is an academy graduate without a Premier League goal to his name all season, the other is a £97.5million striker signed to win his team the title. Both are out of favour and may well be playing their football at different clubs next season after publicly voicing concerns about
12:51 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For the past few months, the San Francisco 49ers have repeatedly said they’d like to keep receiver Deebo Samuel for a long time. On Wednesday, it became clear that Samuel and the Niners don’t quite see things the same way. Samuel, who is entering the final year of
3:05 PM ET Players from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year. The decision was announced Wednesday. The third Slam of the year became the first to ban players from those countries, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Belarus’ close allyship to Russian president Vladimir Putin. The
Venue: Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Glasgow Dates: 21-24 April Coverage: Watch on BBC Sport website & app Katie Archibald believes her “B plus game” is still enough to be competitive at this week’s Track Nations Cup event. The three-time Olympic medallist injured her back six weeks ago and will compete in front of a home
2:40 PM ET Associated Press Pebble Beach is the third course to become an anchor site for the U.S. Open, with the USGA announcing Wednesday four U.S. Opens and four U.S. Women’s Opens over the next 26 years. Pebble Beach joins Pinehurst No. 2 and Oakmont Country Club as anchor sites, a strategy that allows
3:32 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Canelo Alvarez is training in San Diego for a second title fight at 175 pounds, a May 7 meeting against Dmitry Bivol in Las Vegas, but his second fight of 2022 is already planned. If Alvarez prevails, as expected, he’ll meet his bitter rival, Gennadiy Golovkin, in a trilogy matchup
British Olympic gold medallist Katie Archibald says female and transgender athletes have been “let down” by inclusion policies in sport. Archibald, who won the madison at Tokyo 2020, is the first British cyclist to speak publicly about transgender athletes taking part in women’s races. Transgender athletes must be welcomed into sport but without “sacrificing fairness”,
Riders and staff at the Russian Gazprom-Rusvelo pro cycling team say they feel “alone” and “cancelled” after being banned in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Cycling’s governing body the UCI revoked the licences of Russian and Belarusian teams in March. More than 55 personnel have been left without pay and many feel mistreated. “We
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