Month: January 2019

2:45 PM ET Formula One triple world champion and airline entrepreneur Niki Lauda has been released from hospital, the Vienna General Hospital said Wednesday, after he was treated for influenza following a lung transplant five months ago. Lauda, a 69-year-old Austrian, had been holidaying in the Spanish island of Ibiza when he was flown to
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11:13 AM ET New Orleans Pelicans star Anthony Davis is expected to miss one to two weeks with a sprained left index finger, the team announced Saturday. Davis suffered the injury in the fourth quarter of Friday’s game against Portland, when he finished with 27 points and seven rebounds in a 128-112 loss to the
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11:19 AM ET Mick Schumacher has joined the young driver programme of the Ferrari team his father, Michael, won five championships with at the start of the 2000s. On Michael Schumacher’s 50th birthday, Maurice Hamilton remembers a revealing and — as it turned out — poignant interview with the seven-time world champion, whose health still
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5:39 PM ET Former four-division world titlist Adrien Broner has always been confident, almost to the point of cockiness, going into his fights and nothing appears to have changed as he prepares for the biggest fight of his career. Broner challenges legendary eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao for his secondary welterweight belt on Saturday (Showtime
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Jan 16, 2019 Ryan Songalia LOS ANGELES — Manny Pacquiao was slipping around the floor outside the ring of the Wild Card Boxing club earlier this week, the result of downpours and a brand new pair of shoes which had not yet been broken in. “What size shoe are you?,” Pacquiao asked sparring partner Arnold
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10:50 AM ET Former unified light heavyweight world titleholder Sergey Kovalev faces a maximum of four years in prison because of a felony assault charge. Kovalev was arrested on June 9 in connection with an incident in Big Bear Lake, California, in which he is accused of punching a woman in the face, according to
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10:01 AM ET Associated Press Shane Lowry won the Abu Dhabi Championship after being taken to the final hole Saturday. The 31-year-old Lowry claimed his fourth European Tour title with a one-shot victory over South African Richard Sterne. Lowry had an overnight lead of three shots but that was quickly wiped out as the Irishman
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7:52 AM ET Anthony Joshua’s next opponent could be confirmed next week according to promoter Eddie Hearn, with a U.S. debut against Jarrell Miller looking increasingly likely. Joshua (22-0, 21 KOs) has London’s Wembley Stadium booked on Apr. 13 for his next fight, with the plan having been to face WBC champion Deontay Wilder to
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