3:46 AM ET SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The game hadn’t even started yet and LeBron James could feel a throbbing headache come on which he could only surmise was from the smoke that had enveloped downtown Sacramento and the haze hovering inside the Golden 1 Center. Smelling smoke in the arena during the team’s morning shootaround,
Month: November 2018
2:03 AM ET DENVER — Saturday’s UFC Fight Night was meant to be a celebration of how far the sport has come in the past 25 years. And the main event lived up to its billing. In perhaps one of the most spectacular knockouts in UFC history, featherweight Yair Rodriguez (11-2) devastated Chan Sung Jung
12:50 AM ET Former cruiserweight world titlist Krzysztof Glowacki was overlooked for inclusion in the first season of the World Boxing Super Series eight-man tournament, but he was invited to participate in the second season and made a big impression in his opening bout on Saturday night at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. Glowacki powered
12:49 AM ET Steve KimESPN Both Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa came out victorious in Miami on Saturday in respective 10-round bouts, setting up a showdown between the two in March. The 35-year-old Lopez (36-6, 32 KO’s) defeated Christian Mino (19-3, 2 KO’s) over 10 rounds in an entertaining affair that saw Mino hit
12:00 AM ET College football went to form in Week 11, producing a four-loss Big Ten West winner (congrats, Northwestern), a sloppy game in East Lansing (congrats, Ohio State?) and wins by every single top-10 team. The only upset on Saturday was that there wasn’t one, which means it’s unlikely there will be any major
12:00 AM ET Sony Michel, who leads the New England Patriots in rushing, is likely to face the Tennessee Titans on Sunday, a source tells ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is not expected to play in Sunday’s road game against the Titans, sources confirmed to ESPN. After a controversial departure from New
11:39 PM GMT Australia skipper Michael Hooper admits he made the wrong move in not kicking for goal after the Wallabies sunk to a disappointing 9-6 Test loss to Wales. With the scores locked at 3-3 until the 68th minute, in a dour arm wrestle in Cardiff, Hooper’s conceded his decision to go for a
10:15 PM ET Justin Verlander‘s offseason is off to a good start. The Houston Astros ace and supermodel wife Kate Upton welcomed a baby daughter, Genevieve Upton Verlander, to the world earlier this week, the couple announced Saturday. Upton announced the pregnancy on Instagram in July, with a picture of her in a red, high-waisted
9:28 PM GMT Wales coach Warren Gatland says the strength of their bench played a major role in the narrow 9-6 victory over Australia at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Wales, who will meet Australia in their pool in Japan, ended a 13-game losing streak against the Wallabies in an error-strewn arm-wrestle. The ability to
8:32 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Scott McCarron moved into position to win the PGA Tour Champions’ season points race, birdieing the final two holes Saturday for a one-stroke lead in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Matt Kuchar’s third-round 65 at the Mayakoba Golf Classic gave him a four-shot lead over Whee Kim entering