Month: October 2018

6:00 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports CONCORD, N.C. – Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus tried to set the record straight Thursday when they sat at Hendrick Motorsports and described why they will not work together in 2019. As with
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4:38 PM ET Bob PockrassNASCAR Close • NASCAR writer for ESPN.com• 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year• More than 25 years experience covering motorsports CONCORD, N.C. — Maybe it was a little symbolic that the snacks provided Thursday by Hendrick Motorsports when Chad Knaus and Jimmie Johnson met the media didn’t include any milk and cookies. At
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4:40 PM ET When push came to shove, the UFC made Daniel Cormier an offer he couldn’t refuse. Daniel Cormier will defend his heavyweight title against Derrick Lewis in the main event of UFC 230 on Nov. 3 in New York, UFC president Dana White told ESPN. Cormier (21-1) will defend his heavyweight title against
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3:00 PM ET Faced with the likelihood of being stripped of his middleweight world title for testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug, Billy Joe Saunders on Thursday vacated the 160-pound belt. On Tuesday, the Massachusetts State Athletic Commission rejected Saunders’ application for a boxing license for the positive test for the powerful banned stimulant
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2:30 PM ET The controversial new Davis Cup format will likely be without some of the game’s top names when the competition begins next year. Roger Federer joined Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev as the latest players to renounce the event, which will transition into a one-week, one-venue battle of nations late next year in
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3:20 PM BST Brian O’Driscoll has tipped Exeter Chiefs as favourites to lift the Champions Cup title this season, along with recent winners Leinster and Saracens. Exeter have yet to make it further than the quarterfinals of the competition and were beaten twice by eventual champions Leinster in the pool stages of the tournament last
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2:22 PM ET Former Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze has been named offensive coordinator of the Arizona Hotshots of The Alliance of American Football, the team announced. Freeze resigned his position at Ole Miss in July of 2017 after school officials discovered the coach had placed a number of calls on a university-provided cellphone
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3:27 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — In the wake of a report that Pac-12 leadership has influenced decision-making during the replay process of football games, commissioner Larry Scott announced an immediate change that will prevent any real-time involvement from conference leadership moving forward. “I’ve come to the conclusion that we’ve made mistakes in terms of
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