7:33 PM ET Bellator MMA welterweight champion Yaroslav Amosov, who has postponed his professional career in order to serve his native Ukraine, posted a video of himself recovering his 170-pound title belt amid the ongoing Russian invasion on Friday. Amosov, 28, posted several videos on Instagram, as well as a picture of himself with a
Month: April 2022
5:49 PM ET As World Cup draws go, the United States men’s national team didn’t get the toughest assignment for the 2022 World Cup, but it’s also far from easy. The U.S. finds itself in Group B with England, Iran and the winner of the playoff in UEFA that still involves Wales taking on the
5:48 PM ET Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — After falling one shot below the cut line, Rose Zhang, the No. 1 amateur in women’s golf, made birdies on her final three holes at Champions Retreat to qualify for the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Zhang, the former U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, was
8:05 AM ET ONE DAY DURING a recent college football bowl season, Las Vegas-based analysts tasked with monitoring for suspicious activity in sports betting noticed a sudden, dramatic change in the line for one of the next day’s games. The odds for a team that had been a significant favorite were dropping rapidly, and money
3:16 PM ET Texas A&M signed its first No. 1 class in the ESPN 300 era, and on the final day of the second signing period for the 2022 cycle, the Aggies strengthened that top ranking by adding a fifth five-star prospect. Defensive line anchors the Aggies’ class, and they added more firepower to that
11:55 AM ET Follow the draw for the 2022 FIFA World Cup live with ESPN, starting with all the build-up before the ceremony itself begins at 4 p.m. GMT, midday ET. LIVE BLOG NB: Please refresh the page to get the latest updates….. 11.52 ET / 15.52 GMT: Looking at possible draws…. how about a
Off-spinner Simon Harmer ended an absence of more than six years by taking four wickets and putting South Africa in charge on the second day of the first Test against Bangladesh at Kingsmead on Friday. Bangladesh were 98 for four at the close in reply to South Africa’s 367 all out. Harmer took four for
Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges says she has been “harassed and demonised” after being told she cannot compete in the National Omnium Championships. However, she still has “little clarity” around her “alleged ineligibility”. “No-one should have to choose between being who they are and participating in the sport that they love,” she said in a statement
12:11 PM ET The transfer portal is a bigger part of college football than ever. With the season winding down, potentially high-impact players have already announced their intentions to find a new home for next season. Whether a player has entered the portal and not yet chosen a destination or someone has committed to a
8:00 AM ET New Los Angeles Lakers are typically brought to owner Jeanie Buss’ second-floor office overlooking the practice floor at the team’s training facility. And with good reason: On a specially designed credenza under a wide window sit 11 Larry O’Brien trophies — the centerpieces of the building and the sources of constant motivation
12:02 PM ET Six days before the start of the 86th Masters, defending champion Hideki Matsuyama was forced to withdraw from the second round of the Valero Texas Open on Friday because of a neck injury. Matsuyama, who last season became the first man from Japan to win a major championship and the first Asian
4:44 PM ET Bruce Arians said Thursday that it was always his dream to hand a head-coaching job to a member of his staff and that reports of friction between himself and Tom Brady “couldn’t be further from the truth.” Arians, who will be moving into the Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ front office this season while
Olympic champions Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald have been named in the Great Britain team for the UCI Track Nations Cup. The pair will be part of the women’s endurance squad at the event, which starts in Glasgow on 21 April. It will be their first race in Britain since winning madison gold together at
7:00 AM ET The universal DH, for all of its uniformity, practicality and Shohei Ohtani, saddens a small few of us, for it eliminates one of the game’s underappreciated elements: pitchers hitting, or not hitting, which, for 150 years, has provided great statistics, stories and smiles. Yes, we still have the amazing Ohtani, but he
9:55 AM ET Nick Kyrgios has been fined $35,000 for his behaviour during a fourth-round loss to Jannik Sinner at the Miami Open in which he criticised the umpire and smashed his racket, the sport’s governing ATP said on Thursday. After repeatedly berating umpire Carlos Bernardes for failing to control the crowd at the Masters
7:00 AM ET Yuliia Zhytelna woke her dad up with the phone call. Ten hours separate Sacramento, where the redshirt freshman tennis player at Cal State Northridge had just finished a match, and her native Ukraine. She was hoping he could debunk reports she had seen on social media of Russian missiles hitting the airport
The weekend brings four major main events and some entertaining undercard bouts from California to Texas to Japan. Middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin faces fellow champion Ryota Murata in a highly anticipated fight in Saitama, Japan. A GGG victory will put him in position to face Canelo Alvarez in a trilogy fight, this time at super
7:00 AM ET Tim KavanaghESPN.com Close Tim Kavanagh is a senior NHL editor for ESPN. He’s a native of upstate New York. Beyond the Colorado Avalanche and Calgary Flames leading their respective divisions, the NHL’s Western Conference playoff races remain fairly wide open. Four weeks from today we’ll have much more clarity on the first-round