Month: October 2018

Oct 25, 2018 This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s Oct. 29 NBA Preview Issue. Subscribe today! It’s a Tuesday in late June, and all over Oklahoma City, email inboxes are about to catch fire. When the subject line “Russell Westbrook‘s Summer Hype House Party” hits the accounts of Thunder season-ticket holders, prominent local businesspeople
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8:44 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Xander Schauffele gave the Americans a sweep of the World Golf Championships and quickly put a winless sophomore season behind him. Schauffele made birdie on his final three holes Sunday, the last one a 2-putt birdie from about 30 feet on the par-5 18th hole to beat Tony
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2:16 AM ET Anthony Smith continued his surge in the light heavyweight division, choking out former title challenger Volkan Oezdemir at 4:26 of the third round via rear-naked choke on Saturday in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. A former middleweight, Smith (30-13) moved to 3-0 in the past
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1:30 AM BST An exasperated coach Michael Cheika has lashed Tolu Latu for his brain-snap slap in the face of All Blacks counterpart Codie Taylor that reduced Australia to 14 men, but the replacement hooker wasn’t the only player in the firing line after an afternoon of missed opportunities in Yokohama. French referee Romain Poite
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12:48 AM ET NEW YORK — Middleweights Daniel Jacobs and Sergiy Derevyanchenko could not have been more familiar with each other before their fight on Saturday night. They have known each other for years – though do not proclaim to be friends — share manager Keith Connolly, trainer Andre Rozier (who stayed with Jacobs) and
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