Mike Coppinger, ESPNJan 14, 2024, 12:04 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Artur Beterbiev retained his WBC, WBO and IBF light heavyweight titles with a seventh-round TKO victory over Callum Smith on Saturday night in Quebec City, Quebec. Punch Stats Punches Beterbiev Smith Total landed 182 59 Total thrown 471 366 Percent 39% 16% Jabs landed
Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJan 14, 2024, 01:44 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Washington offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb will not be the Huskies’ next coach, he announced on social media Saturday night. Grubb, sources told ESPN’s Chris Low, is expected to instead join former Huskies coach Kalen DeBoer at Alabama as the new offensive coordinator. “Though I
Mike Coppinger, ESPNJan 14, 2024, 01:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions QUEBEC CITY, Quebec — Now that Artur Beterbiev has maintained his pristine 100% KO ratio with another dominant victory, there’s little else to talk about. It’s time for boxing to deliver one of the best possible matchups the sport can offer: A meeting between
Associated Press Jan 13, 2024, 11:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTREAL — Evan Bouchard scored a power-play goal 2:01 into overtime, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Montreal Canadiens 2-1 on Saturday night for a franchise-record 10th consecutive victory. Leon Draisaitl also scored for Edmonton (23-15-1), and Stuart Skinner made 23 saves. Connor McDavid
Adam Teicher Close Adam Teicher ESPN Staff Writer Covered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 Marcel Louis-Jacques Close Marcel Louis-Jacques ESPN Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer
Sam Marsden Alex Kirkland Jan 13, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Real Madrid play Barcelona in the Spanish Supercopa final on Sunday, giving the competition the climactic El Clasico clash its new “final four” format was designed to showcase. It’s the first time since 2020 — when the Supercopa was expanded and moved
Associated Press Jan 13, 2024, 11:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HONOLULU — The hard work is not over for Grayson Murray, in golf or in life. The final round of the Sony Open might give him a good idea of how far he has come. Murray got up-and-down from a bunker on the par-5
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterJan 12, 2024, 03:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The scheduled UFC flyweight contender fight between Manel Kape and Matheus Nicolau is off, promotion officials told ESPN on Friday. Kape missed weight by 3.5 pounds Friday morning, coming in at 129.5 pounds. The bout with Nicolau was scheduled for UFC Fight
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterJan 13, 2024, 10:03 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions Any controversy between Magomed Ankalaev and Johnny Walker came to an emphatic end on Saturday, as Ankalaev scored a vicious knockout over Walker at the UFC’s Apex
Associated Press Jan 13, 2024, 09:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — William Nylander, Mitch Marner and Morgan Rielly from the Toronto Maple Leafs were selected for the NHL All-Star Game on Saturday through the results of a fan vote. The Vancouver Canucks had four players voted into the Feb. 3 game in
Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterJan 13, 2024, 09:15 PM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Open Extended Reactions ANN ARBOR, Mich. — As Michigan celebrated its national championship win against Washington inside Crisler Center on Saturday night, fans packed the arena awaiting decisions from quarterback J.J. McCarthy and
Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNJan 13, 2024, 09:12 PM ET Close Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award
Jan 13, 2024, 06:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The 2024 Australian Open tournament is underway! We’re just two weeks away from crowning a men’s and women’s champion – can anyone dethrone the king of Melbourne Park, Novak Djokovic? What about on the women’s side – will Aryna Sabalenka go back-to-back? Or can Naomi Osaka
Jan 13, 2024, 05:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions After the recent round of domestic cup matches across Europe, league soccer returns with exciting performances and surprise results happening in the Premier League, Serie A, LaLiga, Bundesliga and Ligue 1. On Saturday, we saw Chelsea edge Fulham 1-0 after Cole Palmer put away a penalty
Dave McMenamin, ESPN Staff WriterJan 13, 2024, 06:07 PM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. Open Extended Reactions SALT LAKE CITY — LeBron James will not play against the Utah Jazz
Tim Bontemps, ESPNJan 13, 2024, 06:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — Ime Udoka said before coaching his first game in Boston since being suspended for the 2022-23 season for multiple violations of team rules, and ultimately being removed as the Celtics‘ coach, that he never completed the job he was hired to do.
Getty Images Katy Marchant and Ethan Hayter won gold to take Great Britain’s tally to five at the European Track Cycling Championships, held in the Netherlands. On day four, Marchant became the first British woman to take the European 500m time trial title. Hayter then edged Denmark’s Niklas Larsen to claim a thrilling victory in
Open Extended Reactions A FEW DAYS before Christmas, and a few days before Ben Shelton boarded a plane for the start of the 2024 tennis season and its first major at the Australian Open, he went over to his parents’ house in Gainesville, Florida, to grab something from his old bedroom. While he was rummaging