Month: February 2019

8:09 AM ET Three days after he was traded from the New York Knicks to the Dallas Mavericks, All-Star big man Kristaps Porzingis suggested in an Instagram post that his ex-team’s fans should “stay woke.” Kristaps Porzingis will probably not play for the Dallas Mavericks this season as he continues recovering from a torn ACL
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6:11 AM GMT Bernard Foley wants clarity around plans to rest him and fellow Wallabies from Super Rugby games ahead of this year’s Rugby World Cup. It is understood Rugby Australia has begun discussions with coaches of the four franchises about resting their Wallabies players for multiple games this season. The move, designed to keep
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5:10 AM ET Maurice Hamilton Close • Veteran F1 journalist, covering the sport since 1977• Motor racing correspondent for the Observer for 20 years• Has written several books and covered F1 for BBC Radio 5 Live As you might expect, the complete rebranding of Sauber has brought plenty of PR puff about “The full return of the historic
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ESPN FC’s Steve Nicol and the FC crew discuss the ‘antsy’ atmosphere at Anfield and the pressure associated with a tight Premier League title race. Liverpool’s exit from domestic cup competitions this season gives them the advantage over champions Manchester City in the Premier League title race, according to West Ham United manager Manuel Pellegrini.
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3:32 AM ET Steve KimESPN It was an eventful night of fights on Super Bowl eve at the Star in Frisco, Texas, capped off by Sergey Kovalev regaining the WBO light heavyweight title by conclusively outboxing Eleider Alvarez over 12 rounds. So what did we find out on Saturday night? Kovalev is still a force
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Jan 31, 2019 Former world titleholders Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios and Humberto Soto will square off on Feb. 23 at the Municipal Auditorium Fausto Gutierrez Moreno in Soto’s adopted hometown of Tijuana, Mexico, in the main event of the first card promoted by Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing in Mexico. Rios and Soto, while long past
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5:01 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Six months after Sergey Kovalev lost his light heavyweight world title by upset knockout to Eleider “Storm” Alvarez, he regained it in clear unanimous-decision fashion in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card Saturday night. Kovalev, who called the first loss “an accident” and said
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1:36 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Lightweight Teofimo Lopez Jr., the dynamic 2018 ESPN prospect of the year, continued on Saturday night what he calls his “takeover” and his insistence that he will win a world title this year. Lopez destroyed former lightweight and junior lightweight world title challenger Diego Magdaleno by seventh-round knockout in
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