Month: January 2019

11:06 AM ET Five-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has led tributes to Michael Schumacher on the Ferrari great’s 50th birthday. Schumacher has not been seen in public since he suffered severe head injuries in a skiing accident five years ago and is being cared for at his home in Switzerland. On Michael Schumacher’s
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10:42 AM ET Associated Press Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print SHENZHEN, China — Rain disrupted play at the Shenzhen Open on Thursday, with two quarterfinal matches suspended. Qualifier Veronika Kudermetova was leading Vera Zvonareva 6-4, and Sorana Cirstea was leading Alison Riske 2-0 when play was stopped. The matches will resume Friday. In
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9:20 AM ET The start of 2019 in British boxing is amazingly bare with so few confirmed fights, so few actual dates and venues announced and at the same time dozens of crucial fights under secret negotiation. The clandestine deals are rampant and there will be a frantic flurry of announcements in the next two
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8:51 AM ET Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Qualifying for the college football championship game never has been harder for teams other than Alabama and Clemson. Getting into the stadium to watch the Crimson Tide and Tigers play for the title for the third time in four years has perhaps never been cheaper. Prices
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7:24 AM ET Former IBF super-middleweight champion James DeGale will face British rival Chris Eubank Jr on Feb. 23 at London’s O2 Arena. DeGale (25-2-1, 15 KOs) vacated his IBF belt in June last year in order to pursue bigger fights, rather than facing a mandatory. The pair held talks over a fight in July,
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6:12 AM ET Top seed Caroline Wozniacki is out of the ASB Classic in Auckland after suffering a surprise second round defeat to Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu. World No. 143 Andreescu saved 10 of the 12 break points she faced in a resolute display, managing to break through herself twice in each set on the
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6:02 AM ET Chamatkar Sandhu, ESPN Paul “Semtex” Daley vs. Michael “Venom” Page. Literally years in the making, arguably the biggest fight in U.K. MMA history is scheduled to take place on Saturday Feb. 16, but it won’t be anywhere in the United Kingdom. Instead, Bellator decided to place this fight in Uncasville, Connecticut. It’s
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