7:10 PM ET An anticipated welterweight bout is off the UFC’s next pay-per-view main card. Former UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler is out of a scheduled bout with Mike Perry at UFC 255 on Nov. 21 in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. The UFC is seeking a replacement to fight Perry, sources said.
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6:51 PM BST British and Irish Lions coach Warren Gatland has warned players who miss the team’s warm-up fixture against Japan on June 26 that they will be at a disadvantage when he makes his final selection for the tour of world champions South Africa. The Lions are locked in a battle with Premiership Rugby
5:01 PM ET Dallas Mavericks assistant Stephen Silas is finalizing a deal to become the next head coach of the Houston Rockets, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday. The Rockets were sold on Silas’ offensive ingenuity, his pedigree with Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle, Steve Clifford and his father, Paul Silas, sources said. Silas
4:51 PM ET Associated Press Kentucky Derby winner Authentic heads a field of 11 horses, possibly including filly and Preakness winner Swiss Skydiver against males, for the Breeders’ Cup Classic, with trainer Bob Baffert entering three horses in the $6 million race that includes Belmont winner Tiz the Law. Besides Authentic, second to Swiss Skydiver
4:43 PM ET ESPN News Services The American Hockey League moved its projected start of next season back to Feb. 5 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, president and CEO Scott Howson announced Wednesday. The AHL’s board of governors finalized that projected start date during a brief conference call. The AHL is the top minor league
4:18 PM ET Associated Press VIENNA — Novak Djokovic saved four set points in a 7-6 (11), 6-3 win over Borna Coric on Wednesday to reach the Erste Bank Open quarterfinals and move one step closer to sealing the year-end No. 1 ranking. Djokovic can lock up the top position by winning the title on
Saudi Arabia is set to make its debut on the Formula 1 calendar next year. A race on a street circuit in Jeddah is the penultimate event on a draft calendar that has been shown to teams. Jeddah will hold the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix while a new purpose-built track at Qiddiyah is completed, which
10:34 AM ET Editor’s note: This is one in a series of six pieces that shows how professional sports owners in America contribute to political campaigns, why they spend millions in the space and what that financial power means as athletes across sports continue to embrace activism of their own. BILLIONAIRES OPERATE DIFFERENTLY from the
IPL Points Table: Jasprit Singh has taken 20 wickets in the season for table-toppers Mumbai Indians.© BCCI/IPL Mumbai Indians put in a professional performance to beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by five wickets on Wednesday and go ahead on points on top of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 points table. Tied on 14 points earlier with
2:34 PM BST Ireland prop Cian Healy will win a 100th cap in Saturday’s Six Nations clash against France in Paris as coach Andy Farrell made just a single, enforced change from the side that thumped Italy last weekend. Ireland can mark Healy’s milestone with a bonus-point victory that would ensure they win the Six
1:00 PM ET Grant Morgan, Arkansas’ fifth-year senior linebacker, heard all the “flashy names” during the Razorbacks’ coaching search last December. As a former walk-on who had already played under two different coaching regimes at Arkansas, Morgan did his best to tune out the daily chatter. Then he got word that Arkansas was hiring Sam
11:34 AM ET Wisconsin’s football team has paused all team-related activities for at least seven days because of an increased number of COVID-19 cases, causing the No. 9 Badgers‘ game against Nebraska on Saturday to be canceled. The game will not be rescheduled. As of Wednesday morning, 12 people within the program had tested positive
10:33 AM ET ESPN and FiveThirtyEight Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of six pieces that shows how professional sports owners in America contribute to political campaigns, why they spend millions in the space and what that financial power means as athletes across sports continue to embrace activism of their own. American
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12:01 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kyle Larson will be back in NASCAR next season driving the flagship No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. Larson signed a multi-year contract Wednesday with Hendrick that ended his seven-month banishment from NASCAR for using a racial slur while playing an online racing game last spring. He’d
IPL 2020, MI vs RCB: Devdutt Padikkal took a remarkable catch to dismiss Saurabh Tiwary.© BCCI/IPL Devdutt Padikkal took a remarkable catch on Wednesday evening for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) to dismiss Mumbai Indians‘ (MI) Saurabh Tiwary. On the fourth ball of the 11th over in MI’s chase of 165 runs, Mohammed Siraj bowled a
Defending champion Primoz Roglic reduced the gap to race leader Richard Carapaz as he won the mountainous stage eight of the Vuelta a Espana. Jumbo-Visma’s Roglic moved from fourth to second in the overall standings as he cut the lead of runner-up, Ineos Grenadiers’ Carapaz, to 13 seconds. Britain’s Hugh Carthy finished fifth, dropping two
11:41 PM ET ARLINGTON — They might have gotten a little help from the opposing manager in Game 6, but the Los Angeles Dodgers finally won their World Series, the first for the franchise since 1988 and the first in three tries for them over the past four years. The Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay