1:30 PM ET Manouk Akopyan Mark Magsayo could vault himself into the pantheon of Philippine boxers with wins in key fights this year — starting with Rey Vargas. Steve Marcus/Getty Images HOLLYWOOD — As Manny Pacquaio ended his legendary career losing to Yordenis Ugas, protege Mark Magsayo shined bright on his idol’s undercard with a vicious
12:33 PM ET ESPN Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email United States midfielder Tyler Adams has signed for Leeds United from RB Leipzig, it was announced on Wednesday. Sources told ESPN the deal is worth €17 million, which would increase to €23m with add-ons. Adams has signed a five-year contract at Elland Road. – Stream
10:12 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Simona Halep‘s first appearance at Wimbledon since winning the title three years is going just as good as it did the last time. The 16th-seeded Romanian reached the semifinals and stretched her winning streak at the All England Club to 12 matches by beating Amanda Anisimova 6-2, 6-4
8:30 AM ET If the old “Defense wins championships” adage were actually true, the Big Ten West would have won one by now. No division in major college football has collectively stuck to the “defense and a good run game” approach more religiously. On average, Big Ten West teams ran 64% of the time on
Australia’s Simon Clarke claimed his first victory at the Tour de France by triumphing on stage five. Clarke, 35, beat Dutchman Taco Van der Hoorn with a lunge on the line in a thrilling sprint finish which featured 20km of cobbles in the closing stages. Norway’s Edvald Boasson Hagen finished in third place, two seconds
Rohit Sharma had missed the rescheduled fifth Test against England after testing positive for COVID-19, but he has now recovered and hence would be leading the side in the first T20I of the three-match series on Thursday in Southampton. For the first game, the likes of Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, and Jasprit Bumrah would not
8:13 AM ET The WGC-HSBC Champions, scheduled for Oct. 27-30 in Shanghai, has been canceled because of COVID-19 restrictions in China, the PGA Tour announced Wednesday. The tour said the decision was made along with the China Golf Association. It is the third straight season in which the WGC-HSBC Champions was canceled because of COVID-19
9:41 AM ET ESPN News Services The LPGA Tour has canceled its tournament in Shanghai later this year because of ongoing restrictions in China related to COVID-19. The Buick LPGA Shanghai was to be held Oct. 13-16 at Qizhong Garden Golf Club. The tour said in a statement that it hopes to “compete in front
7:29 AM ET Alexander Volkanovski has won 22 straight fights, the last 12 of them in the UFC. Last Saturday at UFC 276, the featherweight champion defeated former champ Max Holloway for the third time. It was a shockingly dominant performance by the Australian fighter, one worthy of a boost in the ESPN pound-for-pound MMA
8:00 AM ET IT WAS AUG. 11, 2021, and inside the Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas, what appeared to be an ordinary NBA summer league game between the Miami Heat and Memphis Grizzlies was anything but. This was sudden death, after the NBA had seven years prior changed the rules for summer league games that
10:58 PM ET Max Scherzer‘s return to the New York Mets‘ rotation on Tuesday night was successful, as he struck out a season-high 11 batters in six scoreless innings against the host Reds, leaving after 79 pitches in a game Cincinnati eventually won 1-0 on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth. Scherzer
7:00 AM ET The NHL draft can be nice and tidy when there’s a franchise player at the top of the board like Connor McDavid or Auston Matthews, or when there’s a consensus choice like Owen Power was for the Buffalo Sabres last year. When there isn’t, like in the 2022 NHL draft scheduled for
5:57 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Jesse Lingard is set to travel to the United States to listen to pitches from Major League Soccer teams keen to sign the forward this summer, sources told ESPN. Lingard has left Manchester United a free agent and is being chased by Premier League clubs including West Ham and Everton.
Shikhar Dhawan will lead India in the ODIs against West Indies© AFP The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Wednesday announced a 16-member squad for the three-match ODI series against West Indies, which begins on July 22. Rohit Sharma and senior players like Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah have been rested for the
11:42 PM ET ESPN News Services SALT LAKE CITY — Oklahoma City Thunder rookie Chet Holmgren shined in his professional debut, scoring 23 points and setting a Summer League record for blocks and 3s in a game. The No. 2 pick in the draft also had seven rebounds, four assists and six blocks in 24
9:35 PM ET Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Four baseball fans were injured by bullet fragments from outside the Coliseum while attending a postgame July 4 fireworks show, Oakland police and the Athletics said Tuesday. None of the injuries were life-threatening, police and the A’s said. Because the A’s 5-1 victory over the Blue Jays
1:34 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim Bellator MMA lightweight champion Patricky Freire‘s first title defense, scheduled for July 22 against Sidney Outlaw, has been postponed because of an unspecified injury, the promotion announced. The title bout was to headline Bellator 283 in Tacoma, Washington. With Freire sidelined, Bellator is elevating a fight between former welterweight champ
9:56 PM ET Chris Wade is unhappy with the PFL over what he said is about a 30% pay cut from his regular-season fights to the playoffs. Wade, the top seed in this year’s PFL featherweight playoffs and the featherweight runnerup in 2021, told ESPN on Tuesday that he is locked into a fixed purse