Jul 30, 2020 The UFC is targeting a 125-pound bout between former strawweight champion Jessica Andrade and Jessica Eye for a UFC Fight Night event on Oct. 17, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The promotion has not announced the flyweight contest but is close to finalizing it, sources said. The UFC Fight Night event will
1:00 AM ET The UFC is finalizing a middleweight contest between former champion Robert Whittaker and Jared Cannonier for its UFC 254 pay-per-view event, UFC president Dana White told ESPN on Friday. UFC 254 is scheduled to take place on Oct. 24 at a location to be determined. Whittaker (21-5) is fresh off a unanimous
12:48 AM ET NBA Insiders Last year, a dark horse contender pulled off consecutive upsets to win the NBA championship. Who could be this year’s Raptors? Friday night’s action featured three of those dark horses: the Houston Rockets. Dallas Mavericks and Boston Celtics. Saturday’s games will show us a handful more: • Miami Heat vs.
It seems like a long time since life, as we all knew it, stopped in March. Life, as Chris Froome knew it, came to a grinding – and very painful – halt nearly a year earlier; the four-time Tour de France champion suffering terrible injuries in a crash while preparing for a stage during the
11:32 AM ET ESPN News Services The Miami Marlins, after an 18th player tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, are getting multiple sleeper buses to take infected players and coaches from Philadelphia to Miami, sources told ESPN’s Jesse Rogers on Friday. In all, the Marlins have had 21 members of the organization test positive over
10:39 PM ET Associated Press TRUCKEE, Calif. — Kyle Stanley had another eagle in a 14-point round Friday to take the lead into the weekend in the Barracuda Championship, the PGA Tour’s lone modified Stableford scoring event. Stanley had a 22-point total for a two-stroke lead over Matthias Schwab, Robert Streb and Branden Grace in
10:36 PM ET Former Alabama athletic director and Tennessee football coach Bill Battle has been hospitalized with COVID-19, he said in a statement released Friday. Battle, 78, is expected to make a full recovery. “I appreciate the prayers and well-wishes from so many, and want to let you know that I’m stable and resting comfortably,”
1:01 PM ET Saturday’s FA Cup final showdown at Wembley — 12.30 p.m. ET, ESPN+ (U.S. only) — is the third installment of a recent trilogy pitting Arsenal against Chelsea, with the score locked at one win apiece. The two previous finals did not follow their prevailing prematch narrative. In 2017, Chelsea headed into the
2:42 PM ET Free-agent wide receiver Antonio Brown has received an eight-game suspension without pay for multiple violations of the NFL’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Friday. Brown had been the subject of an NFL investigation following an accusation of sexual misconduct at his home by an artist who was working there in 2017.
7:19 PM ET Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio — Danielle Kang went more than six months without competing and looked as though she had never been away, playing bogey-free at Inverness Club for a 6-under 66 and a one-shot lead in the LPGA Drive On Championship. The LPGA Tour’s much-awaited return from the COVID-19 pandemic brought
4:16 PM ET The Pac-12 has approved a 10-game, conference-only fall schedule for football to begin on Sept. 26 with “a lot of built in flexibility,” the conference announced Friday. Each team will play five home and five road games, and the Pac-12 championship game will now be played Dec. 18 or 19. The conference
4:00 PM ET The box office at Capital One Arena in Washington is being transformed into a sportsbook, complete with betting windows and self-serve kiosks, and will begin taking cash bets Friday, a first for an American sports venue. Beginning at 4 p.m., Friday, bookmaker William Hill U.S. will operate seven betting windows and nine
4:55 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark on Friday that if the sport doesn’t do a better job of managing the coronavirus, it could shut
6:00 AM ET Nobody could have known at the time, but the foreshadowing of the NBA’s coronavirus pandemic plan was sitting in a scrapbook in Florida. In one of the roughly 20 scrapbooks in Reggie Williams’ den, there’s a picture from 1997 of Williams and former NBA commissioner David Stern standing on the midcourt logo
4:34 PM ET Associated Press PALERMO, Sicily — More than 400 coronavirus tests were carried out on tennis players and staff members ahead of the Palermo Ladies Open and all of them came back negative. The WTA tournament, with qualifying beginning Saturday, marks the return of tour-level tennis following a five-month break for the coronavirus
5:56 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN The way the New Orleans Pelicans handled the minutes of rookie forward Zion Williamson was seemingly the talk of the NBA on Thursday night as the league returned to play in Orlando, Florida. On Friday afternoon, Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin spoke to reporters to try
4:55 PM ET MEMPHIS, Tenn. — With the PGA Championship, the first major of the season only a week away, some of the golf’s biggest names, including a handful who have struggled with their games and others who have made big changes, are finally starting to find their form. Heading into Saturday’s third round of
12:49 PM ET Associated Press Indiana’s football team has resumed voluntary workouts after a two-week pause following six positive COVID-19 tests. The school’s medical advisory group approved the resumption of enhanced voluntary summer training. Players are now permitted to spend up to eight hours per week on strength training, six hours per week on meetings