Month: February 2019

7:41 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show LONDON — Chris Eubank Jr. erased doubts over whether he could beat elite-level super middleweights by scoring a unanimous-decision victory over James DeGale on
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3:21 PM ET Defending champion Alison Van Uytvanck was forced to save five match points as she defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7) in the semifinals of Hungarian Ladies Open on Saturday. 24 hours after she lost the opening set of her quarterfinal against Kateryna Kozlova, the No. 1 seed was again made to
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7:28 PM ET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Canadian teen Felix Auger-Aliassime reached the Rio Open final on Saturday, beating Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. The 18-year-old Auger-Aliassime will face Serbia’s Laslo Djere on Sunday. Dere advanced in a walkover after Slovenia’s Aljaz Bedene withdrew because of a right leg injury. Auger-Aliassime also
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7:29 PM GMT England hooker Dylan Hartley is set to have knee surgery on Tuesday that will rule him out of the rest of the Six Nations, his Northampton coach Chris Boyd said on Saturday. Hartley, 32, is England’s co-captain alongside fly-half Owen Farrell, but a knee injury has prevented him playing for club or
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7:08 PM ET MEXICO CITY — Standing in the middle of the 15th fairway Saturday at Club de Golf Chapultepec, Tiger Woods had a realistic chance of playing his way into the final group at the WGC-Mexico Championship. Less than 10 minutes later, he walked off the green with a stunning double-bogey 7 on the
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6:58 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings recalled first-round draft pick Filip Zadina from Grand Rapids of the AHL on Saturday. The 19-year-old Zadina, whom Detroit selected with the sixth pick in last year’s draft, has 15 goals and 16 assists in 45 games with Grand Rapids this season. Red Wings
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