Month: September 2018

12:21 AM ET Unified middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez might be back in the ring in short order following his narrow majority decision win to claim the world title from Gennady Golovkin in the year’s biggest fight on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Alvarez eked out the victory 115-113, 115-113 and 114-114 in
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10:14 PM ET ESPN News Services Three NBA stars who grew up in North Carolina — Golden State‘s Stephen Curry, Houston‘s Chris Paul and Washington‘s John Wall — have teamed to support Hurricane Florence reliefs effort with a fundraising website. Paul, a native of Winston-Salem who attended Wake Forest, donated $25,000 to get the donations
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9:39 PM ET Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — A New York prison artist who never played golf but became known for drawings of lush courses he could only imagine was set free Wednesday after authorities agreed that another man committed the murder that put him behind bars for nearly three decades. Valentino Dixon walked out
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8:12 PM ET UFC star Jon Jones could be eligible to return to competition by Oct. 28 — fifteen months after failing the second drug test of his illustrious career. The United States Anti-Doping Agency announced Wednesday it has suspended Jones for 15 months, for testing positive for metabolites of an anabolic steroid on July
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8:23 PM ET Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. — Erik Karlsson was handed a teal San Jose Sharks sweater and immediately proclaimed: “It fits.” Karlsson’s first day with the Sharks went off without a hitch Wednesday. He paired up with Marc-Edouard Vlasic on defense in practice, took part in 3-on-3 drills with fellow Norris Trophy
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11:26 PM ET ESPN News Services AMES, Iowa — Hundreds of students gathered on the Iowa State campus Wednesday evening to remember Celia Barquin Arozamena, a student-athlete who was killed this week while playing golf on a course near the college here. Barquin Arozamena, a 22-year-old engineering student from Spain, was the Big 12 women’s
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6:50 PM ET Floyd Mayweather isn’t just planning for another fight with Manny Pacquiao in a rematch of their record-setting 2015 welterweight title unification bout, he is planning for a tuneup fight first — in Japan. Mayweather, who has been on a trip to Japan, on Saturday announced that he was coming out of yet
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6:41 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks expect to have linebackers Bobby Wagner and Mychal Kendricks available for Sunday’s home opener against the Dallas Cowboys, coach Pete Carroll said. Wagner, Seattle’s All-Pro middle linebacker, is practicing Wednesday after missing the team’s Monday night loss to the Chicago Bears with a groin
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3:50 PM ET Kei Nishikori is through to the quarterfinals of the Moselle Open after easing past defending champion Peter Gojowczyk in straight sets. In what was Nishikori’s first match since making the semifinals of the US Open, the world No. 12 was taken to a tiebreaker for the first set — in which he
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